Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wodehouse story it is perfectly natural for the cartoonist of a syndicated U.S. comic strip to find himself sharing a British beach resort with contenders in an American-type "Beautiful Babies" contest, for a New York publisher to be found naked in the hothouse of a dwelling on Wimbledon Common, or even for a member of Edwardian London's Drones Club to consult Webster's Dictionary rather than the Oxford. Victorian and Edwardian euphemisms such as "bally" and "ruddy" work their way into the tale of a British knight who once "allowed some hornswoggling highbinder to stick...
Coke & Beer. On central New Providence Island, nine new hotels have sprung up in the past five years. The Howard Johnson-run Nassau Beach Lodge opened in February; rushing to completion is Lyford Cay, a combination club-real estate development masterminded by international beer baron and financier Edward Plunket Taylor of Toronto. In 1955 Taylor paid $2,000,000 for 4,000 acres of underbrush 17 miles west of Nassau, making him the second biggest landowner on New Providence (after Eunice Lady Oakes and her children, heirs to the 7,000 acres of the late Sir Harry Oakes...
...land. Louis R. Wasey, former ad agency executive (Erwin, Wasey & Co.), sold frs stockholdings in 1956 to concentrate on his Cat Cay Club, a heaven for well-heeled fishermen. Biggest venture of all is Freeport, a man-made harbor, industry site and bunkering installation 81 miles east of Palm Beach, Fla., on Grand Bahama Island. A $12 million joint venture of top U.S. Shipowner Daniel K. Ludwig, Promoter Wallace Groves and British Millionaire Charles Hayward, Freeport boasts a harbor dredged 30 ft. deep and capable of handling 400-ft. ships, and offshore refueling lines that can deliver 7,500 gallons...
...Frank Sinatra, separately or in pair, have never stood high on the State Department's list of good-will ambassadors. That, as they make clear, is not what they are hired for. Last week Ava and Frankie were in Australia, she on location for her movie On the Beach, he for a concert engagement. Yet even their well-known aversion to crowds and the press could not keep the Aussies at a distance. The result was something special, even by Hollywood standards...
...cultivated New Jersey importer, Eilshemius was born to wealth, studied art in Europe traveled through Spain (where he painted Malaga Beach), Africa and the South Seas. He began exhibiting early, seemed destined for glittering success. He had mastered a broad and airy impressionism, not so brightly lit as that of his French masters, but softly luminous. What queered his career was a strain of fantasy: he introduced into his atmospheric pictures incidents of a naive sort-lubricious, melodramatic (as in Jealousy), somewhat wooden...