Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sicily, the mud of Italy, the fire of Omaha Beach, the anxiety of the Bulge, and the triumph of the Rhine behind him-he started for home...
...People's Choice) and New Dealing editor (Louisville Courier-Journal), for the past two years assistant to U.S. Ambassador John Winant in London; by his second wife, Eleanor Carroll Chilton Agar, 46, Smith-and Oxford-educated socialite-litterateur; after twelve years of marriage (no children); in Palm Beach...
...prove it, he made a scientific expedition to Golden Gate Park to study the masses at play. "Flowery amazons, accompanied by fat pseudo-cowboys ride horseback along the beach. . . ." he wrote. "Girls on the beach try to free themselves from the remainder of their clothes. . . . Suddenly [my] attention was attracted by one of my neighbors flinging down the newspaper he had taken from his pocket...
Divorced. By Christine Cromwell White, 23, only daughter of onetime Diplomat James (Jimmy) H. R. Cromwell, ex-husband of Doris Duke: Frederic Putnam White, 25, Boston socialite, now a Navy boatswain's mate; after four years of marriage (two children); in West Palm Beach, Fla. To get her uncontested divorce, Dodge Auto Heiress White gave her mother-in-law custody of the two children, agreed to toss in a couple of $1,000,000 trust funds for them...
...neared 50, large and lusty Writer Paul de Kruif felt his considerable powers waning. His customary four-mile trot along a Lake Michigan beach slowed down to a walk. Three or four hours with the double-bitted ax and cross-cut saw were all he could stand. He tired easily, slept fitfully, found himself a prey to causeless fears...