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Making the first big public speech of his career, Ernest Hemingway did not appear until 10 p.m. while groups of his agitated admirers tried to locate him in hotels and bars, checking the airport where he had landed after flying from Bimini. Arriving while Walter Duranty was still speaking, he paced the wings before going onstage muttering: "Why the hell am I making a speech?'' But as he began to describe what he had seen reporting the Spanish war, he warmed up eloquently...
...abstraction, he heard Mr. Capone's young doctor and nurses testify that, down with pleurisy, he had been in grave condition during February and March 1929. Then Judge Wilkerson listened to other witnesses who related how the supposedly bed-ridden gangster had taken an airplane ride to Bimini (bootleg base), a boat trip to Nassau, attended the Sharkey-Stribling fight in Miami, the Hialeah races. "It is evident," commented Judge Wilkerson, "that someone is lying...
...Ponce de Leon and the new Condado-Vanderbilt Hotel. Juan Ponce de Leon was appointed by Columbus the Lieut. Governor of "Hispaniola" (Haiti) and from there captured the island of Porto Rico, believing it to abound in gold. Thence, he set out to discover the present island of Bimini, supposed to contain the "Fountain of Youth," but missed Bimini and discovered a bogus spring in Florida...
...into luscious red juice; there where the springs gush forth that transparent and God-given fluid sparkling with purity and virtue, the only proper drink for an American citizen; but if there be those of a grosser appetite who want to violate the constitution of America, there is Bimini, only an hour or two away...
...Jersey coast. It succeeded. Rum row practically disappeared. But it has reappeared in the Gulf of Mexico, furnishing gulf ports with many kinds of dangerous drinkables. Last week the Coast Guard announced that it would extend its blockade in that direction, operating from Biloxi against the rum runners from Bimini...