Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eager to talk to the Americans. They said the Americans would be welcomed generally by the French patriots. The Germans, they said, had been very correct in their social relations with the French, but had eaten the cream of the crop and had compelled the Frenchmen to work on beach fortifications, and the French women to do their laundry, for which they paid...
When handsome, smooth Charles E. Sorensen was squeezed out as Henry Ford's production boss three months ago, he flopped down on a Florida beach to rest. Last week, his rest was up. He stepped in as the new president of bouncing Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., and perhaps, in the carnivorous auto industry, to try to take a revengeful hunk out of spry old Henry's hide. Willys, which has been hunting a president since Joseph Washington Fraser quit eight months ago, kept mum on details of the deal. But it was reported that in addition to Sorensen...
...other U.S. cities pride themselves on their opera houses and symphony orchestras - Long Beach, Calif, has the nation's finest municipal brass band. And the most expensive. Topping the entire musical budget of many a city thrice its size, Long Beach (pop. 225,000) spends $86,210 a year on its municipal band. In the sparkling California summer, when the band's 33 members move out of the Municipal Auditorium and strike up Hawaiian Medley or Gems from the Bohemian Girl in the seaside bandstand, Long Beachers walk thither with springy steps, feeling that their money has been...
...wheezing voice and massive (230 Ib.) figure have become as indigenous to the Long Island landscape as the oil wells atop Signal Hill. A man who started as an infant-prodigy cornetist and went on to conduct radio's Lucky Strike dance orchestra, Rolfe took over the Long Beach Band last year when its founder, an oldtime Sousa (cornet) soloist named Herbert Lincoln Clarke, decided to retire...
Bandmaster Rolfe has endeared himself to Long Beach's music lovers by adding a judicious dash of polyrhythmic oomph to the band's traditional rhythmic oompah. A man of unblushing temperament, who conducts with his back to the band, he frankly describes his abilities as "brilliant." "I have always been one of those spectacular musicians," says he. Band- master Rolfe soothes his audiences with such items as Overture to the Viking, scenes from Babes in Toyland, selections from Porgy and Bess. His theory: "Give 'em what they want...