Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand as a businesslike prop. He refused to go near the water, scheduled a breakfast-to-dinner round of indoor conferences with his underlings. But his battle against pleasure made little headway with the majority of some 200 labor chiefs, relatives and staffers, who refreshed themselves on the beach with a mammoth rum drink called the "Tropical Itch," went sun-scorched to San Juan's casinos and nightclubs...
Died. Marshall Teague, 37, auto racer, A.A.A. national stock car champion in 1952 and 1954; in the 500-yd. rolling crash of a new Sumar Streamliner; during a test run on the new speed track at Daytona Beach...
...Scratch-Pad" and dermographia [extreme sensitivity of the skin-Jan. 19]: as a long sufferer of this complaint, I thought you might be interested in knowing that it had one positive aspect for me. When I was younger, nothing quite so impressed a girl on a day at the beach as emblazoning her name on my forearm in bright, raised letters. It served to cement a number of relationships. Alas, the girls get older and wiser (and more difficult to impress), and dermographic penmanship no longer does the trick...
...baseball's most legendary second baseman, member of the Hall of Fame, whose 1901 batting average-.422-has never been equaled in the American League (and has since been topped only by Second Baseman Rogers Hornsby of the St. Louis Cardinals, who hit .424 in 1924); in Daytona Beach, Fla. Playing for the Philadelphia Nationals, the Philadelphia Athletics and Cleveland, the Big Frenchman (6 ft. 1 in., 195 Ibs.) was an unmatchably graceful fielder, rang up a .339 lifetime batting average, was one of eight men in baseball history to connect for more than 3,000 hits...
Died. William Frederick ("Willie") Hoppe, 71, courteous, peerless billiard master, a whiz at six who won his first world title (18.1 balkline) at 18, his 51st (three-cushion billiards) at 64, was, for most of his life, the greatest player in the world; of cancer; in Miami Beach...