Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golf, tennis, and baseball fail to occupy the reunioner at Essex, facilities will be ready for transportation to Singing Beach and for Gloucester and Rockport tours. Those who didn't reserve places on Kingfisher cruises will find buses prepared to take them from Essex to the Manchester Yacht Club for short boat trips...
Last week Hurricane blew into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to redeem himself. His mother had stopped nagging, he said. Like a good boy, Tommy had been trotting ten miles daily on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk. In Stillman's Gym he had been pushing sparring partners around as he polished up his wild assortment of slaps, jabs, backhanded cuffs and spectacular double uppercuts. He had bothered little with the big bag. "Phooey to that," said Hurricane. "I like to box with guys. A big bag can't punch back. I like to get hit. Then I fight...
...more and more dangerous, and less and less photogenic"), Capa was seldom far from the front lines. Armed with three cameras and a flask of Scotch, he jumped with U.S paratroopers into Nazi-held Germany. At Anzio he landed with the assault troops; on D-day he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave of the 1st Division. "For a war correspondent to miss an invasion," Capa said jauntily, "is like refusing a date with Lana Turner after completing a five-year stretch in Sing Sing...
...pictures in the show: an edgy abstraction that appears to superimpose Chinese calligraphy on shattered glass. Brooklyn's Adolph Gottlieb batted out one of the best abstractions of his career for the home team. Whether it represents jackstraws twirling in the evening sky or dumbbells flying at Jacobs Beach is not made clear by the title...
...iron horse-the $2.7 billion New York Central Railroad. The Central deal started with a long-distance phone call last March. Young, an ambitious dreamer who has exchanged Texas roughness for Newport's semi-suavity, had run into trouble in his campaign to win the Central. From Palm Beach, he called Murchison and said, "I need some help." Murchison called Richardson in California and said, "I need some help." Richardson took the call just as he was starting out for a round of golf. In his haste, he agreed to go along on the deal without hearing the full...