Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down here in Miami Beach, where all this singing began, Colonel Ralph M. Parker has no narrow-minded, old-fashioned ideas about what the boys should and should not sing. The jeeps (rookies, trainees) here sing all the songs Colonel Householder considers offensive, plus a few more such...
...Miami Beach...
...WAFS' second graduation. When the last diploma was handed out, the new pilots became members of the Army Air Transport Command, by next afternoon were fanning out to ferrying bases at Long Beach, Calif., Dallas, Tex., Romulus, Mich., and Wilmington, Del. There they joined up with other WAFS already delivering aircraft from factories to Army tactical bases...
...Criminal Mind. In Houston, two men robbed Mary Burns of $5, quickly handed back a $2 bill, explained that it might bring them bad luck. In Long Beach, Calif, a robber socked Store Proprietress Cecilia Dodgion, tied her up, gathered $104 worth of vitamin pills, gave his victim a kiss, explained, "I must be nuts," departed...
Last Friday's deluge brought with it approximately 80 tanned Officer Candidates to the Statistical School from Miami Beach. Perhaps they welcomed a little rain, but we were beginning to think that Nosh had nothing on us. It is too early to judge the attributes of the new potential 2nd Lieutenants, but on the basis of curbstone opinion, they show promise, both in a scholastic and military...