Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reuel W. Beach...
...West, the iceman's unattainable ideal, was back on stage after a year's layoff. In her new play, Ring Twice Tonight, she opened in Long Beach, Calif., then rumbled northward, hoped to last all the way to Broadway. Her role: an undercover agent for the FBI. Supporting cast: two maids and 15 men. Covering her added attractions: two negligees (one at a time)-one in orange and dove grey, the other just lacy orange, backed with white satin here & there, and here & there...
Married. Captain Louis Zamperini, 29, onetime University of Southern California track star, 1936 Olympic miler, wartime Army Air Corps bombardier who survived 47 days on a life raft and 27 torture-filled months in a Japanese prison camp (TIME, Sept. 17); and Cynthia Applewhite, 20, of Miami Beach, Fla.; in Los Angeles...
Died. Eva Roberts Cromwell Stotesbury, 81, old-school grande dame, whose parties (often more than 300 guests) paced Palm Beach society for more than two decades, widow of Philadelphia Financier Edward Townsend Stotesbury, doting mother of politically ambitious James Henry Roberts Cromwell; of coronary thrombosis; in Palm Beach...
...fifth-floor suite in Rio's gleaming Copacabana Palace Hotel, one floor below ex-King Carol of Rumania, Surits looked out on the white sands of Copacabana Beach. Politely he said that it reminded him of Russia's Black Sea beaches. As soon as Brazilian Foreign Minister João Neves da Fontoura had loudly and lengthily denied his undiplomatic blurt to New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Joseph Newman ("Russia is the greatest danger to the world"), Surits presented his credentials at palm-shaded, swan-graced Palácio Itamaraty, the Foreign Office. Pint-sized Surits beamed...