Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beach Parties...
Leggy Lauren Bacall took a look at her part in The Girl from Jones Beach, and said no: "I'm not a bathing beauty; I'd be embarrassed." Warner's promptly suspended her salary...
Hundreds of Hawaiians lined Honolulu's Waikiki Beach one day last week to say goodbye to the famed old liner Mat-sonia. As the ship passed, on her last voyage to the mainland, a few sentimental spectators wept. One of Hawaii's most popular links with the mainland, she was headed for San Francisco and the auction block. In her place this week was a younger (1932) Matson ship, the 18,163-ton Lurline, making her first commercial postwar trip to the Islands...
...winter, 31-year-old Claude Harmon taught rich men how to play golf at Palm Beach's swank Seminole Club. Last week, he began to think about moving his wife and three kids up to Mamaroneck, N.Y. (where he has a summertime job as pro at Winged Foot). But first, Claude Harmon wanted to take a vacation. He went up to Augusta, Ga., to swap a few tall stories and play golf...
Television's swift growth had caught many advertising men with their charts down. Last week, at the annual convention of the American Association of Advertising Agencies at Virginia Beach, Va., admen took a long look at television and found it still full of the terrors of the unknown...