Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speed on the Beach...
...disappointed to appear in your March 5 report as one who could have contributed to the evasion of rules [during the stock car speed trials at Daytona Beach, Fla.]. I followed a reasonable course in bringing a weight to help acceleration and then asking officials if it was permitted. It was not allowed, and the weight was removed. I was not as confident as TIME'S reporter that added weight would have helped -that any increase in traction would offset the increased inertia. If it had been allowed, I would have experimented with the best results, with and without...
...Dodgers, the Yankees, and even the hated Cubs. A crack first baseman, he was a hustler in the field and had a sharp eye at the plate. Even in those days of the dead ball, he often hit close to .300. But until the day he died-in Daytona Beach, Fla. last week at 67-Frederick Charles Merkle never escaped the memory of that coincidence of time, place and official fickleness that came to be called "Merkle's bonehead play...
Died. Fred Merkle, 67, oldtime New York Giants first-baseman famed for a pennant-losing blooper in 1908 (see SPORT); in Daytona Beach...
...effort to the ocean floor. But for the most part, Historian Morison recites the details of battle after battle, sinking after sinking, with a sailor's relish that keeps the pages turning at a speed uncommon for readers of sound history. Several writers-notably Commander Edward L. Beach in Submarine! (TIME, June 9, 1952) and Run Silent, Run Deep (TIME, April 4)-have graphically described the fearful strain and special terrors of the submariner's life. Author Morison, with his painstaking accuracy and his historian's gusto, is a ship of a different class. Disdaining fiction...