Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When World War II came, Laguerre was in France on political assignments for the London press and Paris-Soir, He was mobilized and sent into the Maginot line. He spent seven days on the beach at Dunkirk before being evacuated aboard a French destroyer, which promptly struck a mine and blew up. Fished out of the North Sea by a British destroyer, he was taken to England and given his choice of repatriation or joining the Free French forces. He chose General Charles de Gaulle, later became his liaison man with the English-language press in North Africa, Italy...
After their 1914 wedding in Hoboken, N.J., Billie discovered that Ziegfeld wore long, silk, peach-colored underwear, which she quickly threw away. But life went on being brightly colored. Ziegfeld liked to tear off to Palm Beach to play roulette. He won or lost $50,000 at a sitting, would say "Go away, dear," when "I tiptoed in to plead with him in whispers." He insisted on traveling in private railroad cars, and when their daughter Patty was six, Ziegfeld bought her a 250-lb. elephant (he had already stocked their Hastings-on-Hudson estate with two lion cubs...
...Times, "or perish. There is no middle way. The structure is too tall, too boldly conceived to be dismantled arch by arch and beam after beam. It must stand or crash . . . The English at present are sleeping as a sailor sleeps after a storm, cast up on the beach, in the sun. But in their dreams they know . . . they will have to rise and go forth . . . One of the great epics of the world is to be played out before us, and played...
...late Long Island-polo-playing Tommy Hitchcock, and Stephany Saja, 23, blonde daughter of a Windber, Pa. coal miner, were taking a well-earned vacation-a honeymoon in Rio. It had been a nerve-racking week. In the course of just a few days, Stephany flew down to Daytona Beach, Fla. from New York, Francis got his divorce from his second wife, the happy couple eloped for a two-minute civil ceremony and were married again in a 30-minute formal Greek Orthodox service-in which the bridal couple wore wreaths of mother-of-pearl orange blossoms (traditional...
Young Pancho, one of seven kids of a Hollywood studio painter, has been playing tennis since 1941, when his mother gave him a 51? racket for Christmas. School never interested him much ("If it was a warm day and the fellows said 'Let's go to the beach,' who was I to say no?"). Though Perry Jones, the Southern California tennis czar, looked askance, he quit high school in 1943 and then did a hitch in the Navy. He finally played his way back into Jones's good graces-and the tournament bids, expense money...