Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arrested for imitating trumpet-voiced Songstress Martha Raye at Brooklyn's Manhattan Beach Baths, where she had a permit to act but not to sing, little Audrey Golub. 9, pleaded that she just "couldn't resist it" when she heard the applause...
Year ago Mayor LaGuardia launched a new attack on Newark's monopoly-enlargement of the old North Beach Airport on Flushing Bay in Queens (20 minutes by car from Manhattan's Grand Central Station) into the most pretentious land and seaplane base in the world (TIME, Sept. 20). At brisk Newark renovation also began...
...Palm Beach...
...craze for de luxe "camping" on the beach is this season's big fad on the once-again-prosperous French Riviera. One hotel leased an entire island, which it promptly covered with tents. Another, at fashionable Cap d'Antibes. has put up tents in its gardens, erected a string of midget-sized bungalows on its beach. Despite the spacious comfortable hotel rooms only a few yards away, diplomats, statesmen, cinema celebrities have preferred to live like beachcombers in abodes which for the most part lack plumbing, hot water, screens...
...windshield, and his engine coughed as though it had swallowed a bone. He looked down for a place to land. But Pilot Purchase was over Coney Island on a Sunday afternoon, and all he could see was 800,000 people in bathing suits. A hundred feet behind the beach was the only open space, Dreamland Park: a few tennis courts and flower beds. He dropped quickly, barely missing one hump of a roller coaster, bumped his Waco down in Dreamland, made a mess of the flower beds, was slightly cut about the face...