Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DAVE MACPHERSO. Long Beach, Calif...
...Negro and virtually a pauper, but plucky little Mary McLeod Bethune was also a dreamer. In 1904, with only $1.50 in cash, she started a school for Negro girls in Daytona Beach, Fla., and then she wanted none other than Soap Tycoon James N. Gamble, son of the founder of Procter & Gamble, to be a trustee. "But where," asked Gamble as he gazed at her shacklike building on the former city dump known as Hell's Hole, "is this school of which you wish me to be a trustee?" "In my mind," replied Mary Bethune. "And in my soul...
...herself the only Negro in a sea of strangers. "White people's eyes pierced me," said she. "Some of them were kind eyes; others would like to be but were still afraid." After graduation she taught in Georgia, married a fellow schoolteacher, Albert Bethune, moved on to Daytona Beach...
Died. Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, 79. co-founder and president-emeritus of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach. Fla.; of a heart attack; in Daytona Beach (see EDUCATION...
When Henry Kaiser moved to Hawaii in 1954 and bought a $187,000 Kahala beach home, his announced intention was "to rest." While resting, he built a swimming pool beside his house in six days, suggested that the government build an island off Waikiki and announced a plan to put $110 million into new resorts. Last week H.J. began to back his words with actions. After a quick trip to Los Angeles to line up financing, consult with Architect Welton Becket and a representative of Conrad Hilton, Kaiser plunked down $491,000 for more beachfront, thus became Waikiki...