Word: fla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank L. Stanton Jr. of Atlanta. Ga. was the "little fellow" spoken of in the song written by his father Frank L. Stanton. for many years a contributing editor to the Atlanta Constitution. Frank junior, an executive in a furniture concern, was driving to Jacksonville, Fla. with his wife and 5-year-old daughter. Dorothy. The car struck a bridge abutment and burst into flames. Mrs. Stanton was killed instantly, her husband died a few hours later. The child was uninjured...
...long, rakish craft skimmed the wavelets of Indian Creek, Fla. one day last week, faster than a boat had ever traveled before, but a watch-tick too slow, officially, to break the world's record. The boat was Miss America IX; her pilot, Garfield ("Gar") Wood; her time, 96.20 nautical m. p. h. Because he had failed to exceed Kaye Don's time by a full 5 m. p. h. Gar Wood could not claim a record...
...standards other than watch-ticks "Gar" Wood's race was a victory. It provided columns and columns of newspaper publicity under the dateline of Miami Beach, Fla., an accomplishment which caused double satisfaction to a short, round-faced, exceedingly affable young man named Stephen Jerome Hannagan. Hannagan is Wood's press agent, Miami Beach's press agent. Geographically, his time is divided among Miami Beach, Montauk Point, L. I. and the Indianapolis Speedway, whither he dashed last fortnight to prepare publicity for the annual automobile races to be held there in May. Professionally his prime allegiance goes...
...Hannagan again encountered Carl Fisher who was then developing Miami Beach. Mourning the fact that the Press made no distinction between Miami and Miami Beach, three miles from the mainland, Promoter Fisher again hired Hannagan. Few days later Hannagan wired his first dispatch to United Press: MIAMI BEACH FLA - FLASH - JULIUS FLEISCHMANN DROPPED DEAD ON POLO FIELD HERE STOP DONT FORGET MIAMI BEACH DATELINE...
...Babson Park, Fla. Roger Ward Babson, famed statistician, fell from a horse and broke his foot. In Los Angeles. Cinemactor Reginald Denny was thrown from his horse in a polo game and injured. In Columbus, Ohio, Mary and Charlotte White, daughters of Governor George White, were slightly hurt in an automobile accident...