Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such pictures made Koerner the find of the year. There were less successful paintings in his show, some nasty in color, some confused in content. Except for one oil, The Beach, Koerner had excluded nature almost entirely. "I'm a city man," says Koerner. "I really love to ride the subway. To me it's like going to the theater...
...days later, the apprentice's sweater is found washed up on the beach. The townspeople, surex that Grimes has committed another murder, head offstage on a new hunt, chanting now near, now far: "Peter Gri-imes ... Peter Gri-mes." As Peter appears on stage, clearly out of his mind, the orchestra is silent; the only sound to be heard is an eerie foghorn. His friend Balstrode warns him to "sail out . . . then sink the boat," before the mob finds him, and Peter Grimes obeys...
Tony Bowers, a high-class haberdasher across from Miami Beach's Roney Plaza, took out of his window the hand-painted necktie marked $1,500 and put it out of sight. "It's murder now," he said tersely. "I have some $25 and $35 ties, but I don't take them out unless a customer comes in and asks for one." All Miami felt the same way Tony did. By last week the city was aware that World War II-and the boom that followed-was over...
Babe Ruth, 53, after a checkup at a Manhattan hospital, packed his bags for Miami Beach, where he hoped to burn out a lingering cold...
...West Palm Beach, Fla., Nancy Rheem Talbot filed suit for separation from Playboy Husband Johnny. After a night out with Lana Turner, she charged, he had told her: "Go home to your mother." In Manhattan, Cinemactress Arline Judge, whose fifth husband, Bob Topping, succeeded Talbot as Lana's friend, wasn't holding still for a divorce. "It'll take me a long time to ruin this one," she raged to the New York Post's Earl Wilson, "but. . . I swear on my baby's head, I'll ruin him for what...