Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brass Check. While Washington society resembles that of St. Louis, San Francisco and Chicago in many of its skin-deep manifestations, there are differences. Washington's crowded beach is washed by the tide of politics, and every important official gets a social position to wear like a brass locker check. As a result the capital's reigning dowagers cannot really rule, but only sit above the high-water mark...
...often the best of social friends with his business enemies. His hunting companions at the Baker estate were the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, with whom Young and his wife are on first-name terms. The Windsors are spending the rest of the season with the Youngs at Palm Beach...
...Palm Beach, where he now spends his winters, he lives in a large, cream-colored Spanish villa called "The Towers," which he bought last year for $160,000. Young ordinarily gets up at 6 a.m., goes for a quick dip in the surf, eats a quick breakfast, then quickly gets to work. His workroom is a second-floor bedroom facing the ocean. For a desk he uses two ordinary card tables, pulled together. Scorning ghostwriters, he writes all his own magazine articles, personally turns out copy...
...long the upper stratum of Palm Beach and Newport society was chilly toward the Youngs. In 1936, they gave their only child, Eleanor, one of the most spectacularly lavish coming-out parties in Newport's history. But since 1941, when Eleanor was killed in an airplane crash, the Youngs have become much less active -and entirely acceptable. If nothing else, their closeness to the Windsors would generally insure them top seeding in social tournaments...
...first prefabricated theater in the U.S., designed to do practically every thing for the patron except pay for his ticket, was opened at Long Beach, Calif, last week. Built by National Theatres Corp.'s president Charles Skouras, it is constructed of steel, gypsum and Fiberglas sections and seats 1,164 people. Said a brochure handed out to first-nighters: "The instinct of self-preservation is one of the strongest in mankind. No audience can fully relax unless it is assured nothing in the way of accident, fire or earthquake can mar its entertainment." To give this assurance the theater...