Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jack Dempsey obtained publicity for the Sharkey-Stribling fight, which he was promoting, by being shot at by an "unidentified prowler," last week, in Miami Beach, Fla. The bullet missed...
There was an alumni reunion, and kudos. Presiding over the reunion was Alumnus Rex Beach. Kudo receivers were: Actor Fred Stone (Doctor of Humanities) ; Operasinger Marie Sundelius (Doctor of Music); Inventor Henry Herman Westinghouse (Doctor of Science); E. W. Rollins (descendant of Founder Rollins, Doctor of Laws...
...over southern Florida last week. Bad weather drove him back from his west coast tarpon fishing. He inspected the Okeechobee flood area, saw tent colonies, praised sugar cane and truck growing in low black muck, heard politicians wisecrack about the election and fish for federal aid. At Palm Beach he was feted at the Bath and Tennis Club. At Fort Lauderdale, 3,000 excited children mobbed him, swept him two blocks from his car. ¶At Brighton, Fla., Mr. Hoover lunched with Glenn H. Curtiss, aviation pioneer. He remarked to his host that Col. Lindbergh should fly no more, lest...
Gangster Capone was reported to be lolling innocently in Miami Beach, Fla., on St. Valentine...
Married. Thomas Nesbitt McCarter Jr., of Rumson, N. J., son of the president of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey; and Suzanne M. Pierson, Manhattan & Newport socialite; in Palm Beach...