Word: boardwalkers
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Each night, the contestants were introduced to the public from the stage of a boardwalk theater. They made only a brief appearance in bathing suits. They wore evening gowns for the serious business -proving to the judges that they possessed "talent." Since many of them had confessed rather wildly to having no "talent" at all, the results were often novel. Some sang, some recited, some tap-danced, and one girl played Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life on the marimba. Hundreds of soldiers and wounded veterans who came to the theater to look at legs, came back, fascinated, night after night...
...mention the "hard, unhappy-looking men" keeping to themselves along the Atlantic City boardwalk and brooding over their 3.2 beer [TIME, Sept.11]. I was one of the original band who opened the redistribution center in October of 1943. We were "war-wearies" from all theaters and had had more than our fill of combat, but we were too happy to be home and alive to do any brooding. After the first shock of being treated like gentlemen we settled down to enjoy the marvelous facilities the army provided for our entertainment and enjoyment. We did not avoid civilians...
...coasts the great pressure of air pushed the tide into towns, sent great seas tumbling and smashing upon the land. Then the lights went out and telephone lines went down; the chattering radios were stilled, and the candles were lit. At Atlantic City the wind ripped up the famed boardwalk, smashed through the famed Steel Pier...
...hard, unhappy-looking men kept to themselves. Along the boardwalk, in the Atlantic City bars, they avoided civilians, even shunned other soldiers who had not been overseas. The hard young men were veteran Army Air Forces pilots and crewmen. They had had 21-day furloughs at home. Now they were at the Atlantic City redistribution center, being prepared for reassignment...
Along the sunny boardwalk, in the Atlantic City bars, U.S. civilians were getting a look last week at gulfs they will have to cross when the boys come home...