Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike some who helped to build "the Beach," John Levi has not lost his sense of proportion. Says he: "They say Carl Fisher was the father of the beach, and that I am the son of the beach...
Journey to the Sun. Miami Beach is "the Beach" because a man named Carl Graham Fisher had imagination and $5,000,000. Carl Fisher was an Indiana Hoosier, and he was a humdinger. He made his first fortune in PrestOLite acetylene lamps for automobiles, sold out just as electric headlights were coming in. That was 1911, Carl Fisher was 37, and he was honing to play with his money. So he had the Seabury Shipyards in New York City build him a motor yacht, invited Seabury's Superintendent John H. Levi to go on the first cruise-down...
...deflected his compass, got sadly lost. But eventually he found his way through the Florida Keys (with a native fisherman's help), moored in Biscayne Bay in January, 1912. One long look at those blue waters and the hamlet on the shore was enough for him. He wired Carl Fisher: "Meet me in Miami ... a pretty little town...
...Paris last week Finnish Minister Dr. Harri Holma told newspapermen that unless Finland gets more help quickly Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim's army is "condemned to death." In Helsinki sturdy old President Kyosti Kallio once more offered to negotiate "an honorable peace." This was no more than Finland had been offering since the war began,* but it proved to the Finns who are getting hurt in this war that their Government is always willing to negotiate. And Minister Holma's scare talk was less a cry of desperation than a part of the Finnish campaign...
...rate, a touring, Lithuanian-born U. S. wrestler named Carl Pojello met him in Singapore in 1936 in Le Laurier bar. One handshake was enough for Pojello. He took the Angel to Paris, taught him all he knew about the U. S. catch-as-catch-can, or British "all-in," wrestling business. Since then, in 140 matches in six countries, according to uncontradicted reports, the Angel has been unbeatable...