Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many a man, the chemise on dry I land was bad enough. But now they're going to wear them at the beach! For news about this coverup, see BUSINESS, Chemise...
...Sutro a strange sea of mud 100 ft. long and 25 ft. deep seeped toward a couple of apartment houses. In the tidelands community of Alviso, almost all of the 1,000 residents evacuated their homes before 4-to-8-ft. floods. Against four miles of coastline near Rockaway Beach, the ocean battered in mighty 40-ft. breakers...
...West Palm Beach, Fla., aging (49) Glamour Boy Porfirio Rubirosa, a sometime auto racer, was caught by police with his Ferrari down, charged with speeding, making a wrong turn and driving with an ear-ruffling muffler, haled to headquarters, where he paid a $25 fine. Huffed Rubi: "I was only trying to reach the bank in a hurry...
...eloquent word of warning: "Occupancy by more than 1,700 people dangerous and unlawful." The only nightclub in the world roomy enough to fly such a banner is improbably located on the tawrdry, whiffy flatlands near the southernmost tip of Brooklyn. The Town & Country, sometimes referred to as "Miami Beach in Flatbush," is a 45-minute drive and a $6 cab fare from Manhattan, but it fields a line of first-class talent most clubs would hock their silverware to buy. Its big neon bill of fare regularly blazons such names as Harry Belafonte, Jerry Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Milton Berle...
...Silent, Run Deep (Hecht, Hill, Lancaster; United Artists) runs noisy, runs shallow. But it gives the moviegoer who is in the market for thrills a fairly good run for his money. Based on the 1955 bestseller by Navy Captain Edward L. Beach (at that time President Eisenhower's Navy aide), the film gets under way as Commander Clark Gable, U.S.N.. loses his submarine in Japan's Bungo Strait. Desked in Honolulu, he strikes for another command and sails for revenge. But there is a hitch: the command that Gable gets had previously been ticketed to Lieut. Burt...