Word: coast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with fewer than 1,000 guest rooms, some 20,000 tourists nevertheless found shelter. Françoise Sagan left for the relative calm of Normandy; Brigitte Bardot was pregnant. Saint-Trop has nearly as many candlelit cellar clubs as the Left Bank, and the vogue has spread along the coast as far as Nice, where the Gorilla Club boasts of stereophonic sound. At Whisky à Gogo in Cannes the doors were locked after midnight, because there was room for no more customers. In Monte Carlo the gambling casino complained about the lack of players; in Juan-les-Pins the complaint...
...campers stood at the edge of the road washing themselves-when there was water. For all the tourists this season the Riviera seemed cramped, and the resort towns are blending into each other to form an endless Côte d'Azur city. At no place is the coast wider than ten miles between mountains and sea, and the roads are inadequate. It took 90 fume-choked minutes to traverse the Croisette in Cannes; six hours to drive the 35 miles from Fréjus to Nice...
...suit, who solemnly told the 100-odd lawyers present: "I probably got more courtroom experience than any of you guys." Expounding on income tax, O'Brien advised the barristers that the only way to come out even is to "borrow money from your friends." As other West Coast lawyers snickered and A.B.A. big shots fumed, the word spread: Gagster Belli's tax expert was Mobster Mickey ("I'm rehabilitated") Cohen, whose courtroom experience includes hearing a judge sentence him to five years for income-tax evasion...
...weather eye on church groups, it has never been in trouble with the Protestant National Council of Churches, which traditionally avoids anything that smacks of censorship. But last week the NCC was giving Hollywood fits. The issue, said George A. Heimrich, director of the council's West Coast Broadcasting and Film Commission, was movies that "overemphasize sex for sex's sake and violence for violence's sake." Added Layman Heimrich, before flying to New York to meet with other Protestant leaders: "We are going to take some kind of action...
...stadium for the fourth annual Randall's Island Jazz Festival, and made it the world's biggest jam session, displacing even the famed Newport Festival. The jazz buffs had come (at up to $4.50 a ticket) to hear just about every top combo, including an exciting West Coast-styled group making its first appearance in New York...