Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan magazine editor once wired Miami Beach for a colorful story on the bustling resort business. Back came a disillusioning reply from the Florida resort's own pressagent, Steve Hannagan: "Business is lousy." The editor got no story, but he helped spread Steve Hannagan's fame as a rare bird among the shrill jays of pressagentry; he was regarded as "an honest pressagent...
...such, he became the best known in the U.S. to newsmen, and his Manhattan firm of Steve Hannagan Associates made millions getting the public better acquainted with such clients as Miami Beach, the Union Pacific Railroad, Coca-Cola, Owens-Illinois Glass, the Indianapolis Speedway and 30-odd others. It was Steve Hannagan-a pressagent with an unabashed circus flair-who made the bathing girl a stock shot for the American press, and who persuaded newspaper readers that Prizefighter Gene Tunney was really a Shakespearean scholar...
...graceful, furled like striped umbrellas into acres of cotton cloth-some green, some plum, some crimson, and all decorated with patterns of elephants, tropical fish, signs of the zodiac and portraits of the late King George VI. The men, short, square and knobbly at the knees, wore Palm Beach shirts, open at the neck and hanging, like Harry Truman's, outside their shorts; a few had flowing togas, draped off one shoulder so that they looked like British soccer players decked out as Romans. Everyone in the procession was black, and proud...
...black night, he rowed ashore with his military chieftains from a German steamer to a secluded beach in eastern Cuba. A few weeks later, with troops landed elsewhere, the revolutionaries engaged the Spanish regulars near Camagüey. Dressed as usual in formal black, waving an unaccustomed pistol, Martí charged on a white horse. One of the first of the Spanish bullets smashed through his breast and killed him. He was 42. His death helped turn the uncertain, barefoot rebels into a band of machete-swinging warriors; he became a hero whose fiery slogans were remembered. Three years later...
...Last Resorts, by Cleveland Amory. An agreeably lighthearted historian applies a social stethoscope to Newport, Bar Harbor, Saratoga, Palm Beach and other aging resorts of the rich (TIME...