Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flock was one of the starters this week at West Palm Beach in the final race of the year, sponsored by NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing). Flock was involved in a neck & neck race with Herb Thomas, defending national champion, for the 1952 title...
...most of it is good if not exceptional. David Chandler's Sonnet achieves a poignant, sustained effect from a careful control of visual images and brilliantly worded passages. Neither the cadence, sound, nor form interfere with his feelings on growing up. The poem advances smoothly and communicates directly. Southampton Beach, by Charles Neuhauser, relies more on sense impressions and reflections inspired by them. In places, the impressions seem redundant, yet the transitions to reflection are expertly handled. It is sometimes difficult to know exactly what Neuhauser is saying, however, because he uses a development of ideas as subject rather than...
...Kazuko moved from one lover to another, Imperial Japan made its peace with the U.S. The U.S. Navy tried to tell the castaways on Anatahan about this development, but they refused to believe it. Just a trick, they said, and went on training their few machine guns on the beach. In 1950, however, Kazuko decided that anything was better than trying to please more than two dozen men. She slipped away from her current love, signaled a U.S. patrol boat cruising near the beach and surrendered. Her menfolk held out for another year and then surrendered themselves...
...papers across the nation, the news broke with a splash. Headlined the New York World-Telegram and Sun: CROONER SENDS BLONDE INTO A TRANCE. Said the Long Beach Independent: LOVE SONG HYPNOTIZES BEAUTY. The Wichita Eagle carried a Page One picture of a "petite, shapely blonde, still unidentified . . . after she fell into a 'trance' while listening to Baritone Singer John Arcesi sing Lost in Your Love at a Las Vegas nightclub." U.P. and I.N.S. put the story on the wires. Though many newsmen suspected the story, they still ran it, and thus fell for one of the most...
...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...