Word: cabanas
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...avoid technical hitches on the Cuban location. Producer Bill Harbach and his staff kept auditioning local talent, came up with bongo beaters, a singing quartet and a dancer named Tybee Afra who hails from the New York borsch belt. At the poolside near Gambler Meyer Lansky's cabana, in the lobby and the casino. Allen & Co. and Guests Lou Costello and Edgar Bergen rehearsed in doubletalk ("Did you put the bird in the creen?") to keep their gags fresh for the bystanders who would later form their audience...
...Raton Hotel & Club, 42 miles north of Miami. Put up by Utilitycoon Clarence H. Geist as the world's flossiest private resort, it cost $10 million, had 450 rooms, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, two 18-hole golf courses, dozens of fountain-filled gardens and a beach-front cabana that is bigger than most hotels. During the Depression, Geist ran Boca Raton as his private hobby, happily paid its staggering deficits. But when he died in 1938, the club fell on hard times. The Army Air Forces used it for a training center in World...
...went to their separate bedrooms. Ann, not a habitual user of sleeping pills, took one that night for cramps. What waked her has not been discovered. Police picked up Paul Wirths, a German refugee; he admitted that it was he who a few nights previously had broken into a cabana and a six-car garage on the Woodward estate and alarmed the family. He said he had not returned on the night of the killing, and he proved...
...sedative, Ann Woodward gave her account of what had happened. When the Woodwards, with their two young sons, William III, 11, and Jimmy, 7, arrived at the estate early last week they had discovered evidence of a prowler. A window in the living room had been smashed, and a cabana beside the swimming pool had been broken open. On the day of Mrs. Baker's party the Woodwards decided to arm themselves against future prowlers, and went to the game room to choose their weapons. From Woodward's gun collection Ann selected a shotgun, Bill a pistol (which...
...Invitation Tournament were creaky (39) but top-ranked Gardnar Mulloy, Art Larsen (No. 3) and Billy Talbert (No. 6). As usual, they came to play a little tennis and also just to play. Their daily regimen was elegantly simple: breakfast in bed or on private balconies, sunbathing on the cabana-fringed beach, lunch, a little tennis, more sunbathing, dining & dancing...