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...stay away from the water." After a stretch in the Navy during World War I, "Mom wanted me to be President and the old man wanted me to be an admiral. Me, I wanted to be a charter boatman. I bought a backyard-built, potbellied boat called the Bonita in Bay Head, N.J., put my mother, father and girl friend on board, and headed for Miami. The girl got off in Maryland, but we made it to Miami." In those days "the water in the bay was gin-clear, and you could stand on the bank and catch twice your...
Spoiled Sport. In Baltimore, spotted walking along the street at night clad only in shoes and a string of pearls, Bonita S. Schapiro, 25, was hustled off to the station house with a coat thrown over her, complained moodily to the cops: "Every time I try to have a little fun I get into trouble...
...Tears, for Tributes. Their honeymoon in Acapulco inspired María Bonita ("Remember those nights in Acapulco, María of my soul?"). She called him "My Skinny" (Lara says he weighs 120 Ibs. "with an overcoat on"). He rained minks, Cadillacs and diamonds on María. But the rising young star was hard to hold, and they were divorced in 1947, leaving Lara heartbroken. He told friends: "I love María too much . . . Rather than kill her I prefer to divorce...
...will come, my bird, Bonita? Come! For I, by steep and stone, Have built such nest for you, Juanita, As not eagle bird hath known...
...rover in his youth, Peters went to Mexico at 35 as the agent of an Illinois doctor who had bought land near Loma Bonita, sight unseen, and wanted it fenced, cleared and planted. When the doctor's son later arrived to take over, Peters bought a nearby 200-acre tract for himself. Finding that wheat and other northern crops did poorly in the region's hot, dry climate, he made a trip to Tezonapa, 75 miles away, and brought back pineapple plants of the Cayenne variety. They did well. Peters brought in more plants...