Word: corale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women's final, San Diego's hard-driving Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly won her second Wimbledon title in a row, 8-6, 7-5, in a brilliant baseline match with Doris Hart of Coral Gables, Fla. It was the eighth all-American women's finals in eight years...
Scientist Woodin does not limit himself to Gila monsters. He has taken the temperatures of 5-ft. rattlesnakes, fringe-footed lizards and venomous coral snakes. After he is through with a patient, he gives it an identifying mark in case of a future encounter...
...dives into the water from his yacht and paces her in the last lap. There are some blithe tunes by Arthur Schwartz and Johnny Mercer, and the whole thing has been briskly staged by Charles (Lilt) Walters. Best sequence: an underwater dream ballet, in which Esther capers among the coral with Tom and Jerry, the animated-cartoon cat and mouse...
...Lips like crumbled coral, heart-heaven...
Spanish Skeleton. If everything had gone according to plan, the University of Miami might have been born big and grandiose. Its founders, a group of Coral Gables plungers, wanted it to look like a bit of old Seville-"a triumph of Spanish architecture." Instead, with its founders financially crippled by crash and hurricane, the university opened with a $500,000 debt. Its great administration building remained only a skeleton; its one usable building was an abandoned, half-finished hotel, which was fixed up with beaverboard partitions to accommodate classes. President Ashe himself had to borrow on his own insurance policies...