Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. Fred Perry, 46, British-born ex-world champion tennist (amateur and professional), now the pro at Florida's Boca Raton Club; by his third wife, Lorraine Perry, 44, after six years of marriage, no children; in West Palm Beach...
...Hartman, first told Songwriter Irving Berlin that Rosemary Clooney was to be cast in the top feminine role of White Christmas, Berlin, believing the part should have been filled by an established movie star, gave only dubious assent. But recently Hartman heard from Berlin, calling excitedly from Miami Beach. Said Berlin: "I thought you ought to know I'm very glad we have her in our picture. I'm glad to see that she's living up to the expectations you had for her and that she's already taking on stature and importance." Then...
Deacon Farrar finds the right tune for a paper not in his office (he has none) or his Laguna Beach, Calif, home but in a hotel room in the city where he is working. There, for a fee of about $100 a day and up, he cuts up heads from piles of old newspapers, pastes the letters into new arrangements, makes as many as 50 sample dummies. (Once a frightened chambermaid told the hotel manager: "There's a crazy man upstairs cutting out paper dolls.") Then Farrar "indoctrinates" the staff on how to put the changes into effect...
...griddle-flat stretch of Florida coast just south of Daytona Beach one day last week, the air was split by the thunder of 111 motorcycles revving up at once. A white flag waved, and four ranks of cyclists in crash helmets and goggles blasted off along the rock-hard sand. Ahead lay 48 laps of speed work on a 4.2-mile course-and a chance at the National Motorcycle Championship...
Some 13,000 paying customers ranged along the course were soon getting their money's worth. Roaring up the beach straightaway on the first lap, the pack hit close to 115 m.p.h., slowed to 60 for the first turn. Some cyclists failed to hit their brakes hard enough, approaching the curves, and skidded against the railings. As they jockeyed back into the path of their onrushing rivals, officials frantically waved red warning flags, and the crowd squealed...