Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Numisguided. In Hermosa Beach, Calif., someone smashed a plate-glass window, stole 1?-a 1909 Lincoln penny worth...
...vacation in Florida, General of the Army Omar Bradley, 66, now board chairman of the Bulova Watch Co., put on a sourdough getup and a super-Groucho mustache for a frolicsome "Yukon Night" at the exclusive Surf Club north of Miami Beach. Other Bradley diversions: sharpening up his mortar-accurate (high 70s) golf game, playing the ponies (he has one named after him) at Gulf stream track, where he showed a keen eye for long shots, made $26.20 on a $2 bet. Said an admiring friend: "He spends more time studying the form charts than anyone I ever knew...
Ferras says he knew he would be a violinist a year after he touched his first violin, at six, despite the fact that as a boy he fell on a broken bottle on the beach, deeply gashed his left hand in precisely the same place his father once had. "But I was lucky," says Violinist Ferras. "This time it cut no nerves...
...seats in the soaring, powder blue La Ronde Room at Miami Beach's Fontainbleau (pronounced: fountain-blew) Hotel were filled with men in silk suits and women in mutation mink. Steak dinners were snapped up at $10 a plate; drink-hustling waiters peddled hooch by the bottle ("Ya might as well. Yer payin' for it"). Then the M.C. silenced the house with a simple announcement: "Direct from the bar of the Boom Boom Room [another Fontainbleau saloon] we bring you the vocalist, Frank Sinatra...
...week, Lover Boy is making the La Ronde Room pay off. One of the warmest winters in Florida's history has the Gold Coast awash with well-heeled vacationers, so everybody follows the trend to ever more expensive entertainment. From the Roney Plaza near the foot of the beach, north past the Versailles, the Eden Roc, the Sherry Frontenac and the Americana, all the way to the spanking new Diplomat, the competition rages. Cadillacs crowd the highways; minks and white fox stoles topped by teetering hairdos fill ornate halls such as the Eden Roc's Pompeii Room, which...