Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only Blackpool, formerly Britain's glittery beach resort, remained a nocturnal ink spot. Someone had forgotten to give the "lights on" order...
...palled. Antenor and Cristina parted, then became reconciled. Last year Antenor agreed to give Cristina $500,000. He also promised her another $500,000 if he should abandon her "without cause." Last week, in a Manhattan court, Cristina charged that Antenor had been running off to places like Palm Beach and Colorado Springs with one Francesca Simms, a sultry American model. This, said Cristina, constituted abandonment. The court agreed, ordered Antenor, now in London...
...Winston Churchills, dressed strictly for comfort, encountered photographers on the Hendaye beach, where they were vacationing between the British political campaign and the Potsdam Conference, together made a picture that looked startlingly like an old George Belcher cartoon out for a walk with one of the Elgin Marbles...
Perhaps too interested in color and not enough in facts, a New York Daily News copyreader last week embroidered an A.P. story about Harry Robert Bell of West Palm Beach, Fla., just home from the wars. If he had stopped to think, he would probably not have dressed up Bell as "the nation's first draftee"-since there were 6,175 duplicates of "First Draftee" Bell, all holders of local draft boards...
Stubby, moon-faced Stephen Jerome Hannagan made his start by shouting the praises of Billy McCarney's troupe of barnstorming auto racers. His big chance came, 20 years ago, when Promoter Carl Graham Fisher put him in charge of Miami Beach's publicity. Hannagan set up a news bureau, sent northward a steady flow of good copy - about 25% society notes on what the home folks were doing down South, the other 75% pictures of pretty girls in bathing suits. Miami Beach prospered, and Steve Hannagan got a lot of the credit...