Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston Opera House. Its failure threw him on the mercy of Florenz Ziegfeld. Since then he has done about one-third of the scenery for the Metropolitan Opera, all scenery for Ziegfeld. He gradually crept back into architecture. In recent years he has designed the Ziegfeld Theatre, Palm Beach palazzi for Edward Hyatt Hutton, Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., a Gingerbread Castle for Wheatsworth Cracker Co. and the New York School for Social Research, his most successful building to date. Between times he keeps up with his stage work, designs furniture, lace curtains, trunks for Hartman, an automobile...
...Miami Beach. Last fortnight, when Garfield Arthur ("Gar"') Wood began his winter occupation of trying to better Kaye Don's speedboat record of 110.223 m.p.h. he failed by a couple of watch ticks. Last week he lowered the hull of his Miss America IX to make her cut through ripples instead of bounce over them, then claimed he had beaten the world's record by more than the requisite .5 m.p.h.† He covered the Indian Creek course of one nautical mile (6.080 ft.) southward in 36.87 sec., northward in 37.35 sec. and computed his average speed...
Taking a Christmas holiday in Florida in 1924 Hannagan again encountered Carl Fisher who was then developing Miami Beach. Mourning the fact that the Press made no distinction between Miami and Miami Beach, three miles from the mainland, Promoter Fisher again hired Hannagan. Few days later Hannagan wired his first dispatch to United Press: MIAMI BEACH FLA - FLASH - JULIUS FLEISCHMANN DROPPED DEAD ON POLO FIELD HERE STOP DONT FORGET MIAMI BEACH DATELINE...
Today Hannagan's Miami Beach News Bureau includes six reporters and two photographers, functions like any newspaper staff, scrupulously covers adverse news when it occurs...
...Gene Tunney when the latter suffered acute unpopularity before his first fight with Dempsey. He counselled the late George L. ("Tex") Rickard in promoting the Sharkey-Stribling fight. He took Rickard to the hospital when he was stricken with appendicitis, substituted for him at the opening of the Miami Beach Kennel Club; was outside the door when Rickard died and escorted his body to New York. Returning to Miami Beach he continued promoting the fight, "building-up" Stribling for southern fans and Sharkey for the northerners for a $405,000 gate...