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There they were, jammed together in the Shell Room of Miami Beach's Doral Beach Hotel, along with 600 music lovers and curiosity seekers of unrestricted tastes. First, Guy Lombardo, 62, borrowed four musicians from Count Basie, 60, for several numbers that sounded Royally Canadian. The Count countered by swiping eight guys from Guy, for a medley indistinguishable from basic Basie. But it took that great ham operator, Jackie Gleason, 49, to get the bands jamming together, when, with short waves of his smoldering cigarette, he led the 32-man combined ensemble through Rampart Street and Johnson...
...room in any hotel on any island-meet with derisive laughter. "This is truly a bounty year for us," glowed the head of the Caribbean Tourist Association in New York. "In all my 32 years in Miami Beach, I've never seen such pressure for reservations," crowed Doral Hotel Director Jean S. Suits. "Saturday night there were guests sleeping in my office. They were even in the cabanas and the solarium...
...Bermuda. Buzzing along on one of those mid-ocean motor bikes at 5:30 a.m. to the U.S. Navy base where he was temporarily stationed for some underwater training, Carpenter met two cars passing on a narrow road, and when he sheered aside to avoid them, bounced into a doral wall just the way the tourists do. Toll: a compound fracture of the left arm that may take surgery for a proper set, a fractured toe on his left foot, and a rapidly ballooning left knee, all of which will keep him well above the water line at least...
...Doral Open 2nd Tie, 18th Tie, 27th...
That grand slammer, Sammy Snead, 49, boasts the most naturally graceful swing in big-time golf, and last week he proved that he also has the most relaxed crouch. Retrieving his ball from the scraggly rough at Miami's Doral Country Club, he resembled nothing more than a praying mantis at bay. After which he slapped his next shot spang on the green, went on to pick up $700 in the pro-am prelude to the Miami open invitational...