Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Groom, which marries one lucky couple on TV each weekday, found it had netted a tartar in Sigmund Welt, 24. Scheduled to be married last week to Josephine Buono, Sigmund rebelled when he discovered that his expense-paid honeymoon had to be spent at winterbound Princeton, N.J. He demanded Florida or California instead. Welt was bounced from the program and, minutes later, bounced again by his fiancee. After thinking things over until 5 a.m., Sigmund decided he just had to talk to Josephine. He broke into the basement of her Brooklyn home, stole up toward her bedroom and was pounced...
Bethke next took a job as advertising manager for a small paper in Tarpon Springs, Fla. When the Florida boom broke in 1926, he headed for New York with $50 in his pocket, got a linotyper's job on the New York Times the next day. For a year he saved money by living rent-free on the third floor of a Greenwich Village house occupied by a group of unemployed actors and an organization dedicated to the preservation of American Indians. In lieu of rent, Bethke played the piano for the society's weekly meetings...
...stones in place, and the two businessmen, E. Raymond Moss and William S. Edgemon of Cincinnati, got ready to open the monastery to sightseers. Moss and Edgemon had bought the stones at a bargain after Hearst's death in 1951, and packed them off to Florida. In the summer of 1952, a small army of architects, masons and other workmen started the laborious job of unpacking and reassembling the stones on a 20-acre site just outside Miami. They worked from charts prepared by Hearst's dismantlers in Sacramenia; each stone bore a number corresponding to a position...
...Denver's 17 players, 11 are from Canada, three from Minnesota, and one each from Massachusetts, Florida, and Colorado...
...octopus don't try, or because Gilbert Roland and Robert Wagner aren't brave enough to meet an occasional shark. The film's real weakness is a script scarcely different from Hollywood's previous deep sea epics. Father Roland and son Wagner, Greek sponge fishermen off the Florida keys, discuss the dangers of their occupation and the terror the diver feels when approaching the reef. As Roland wistfully points out, a man can forget his fear when once dazzled by the beauty of the sea, but the reef, lying in wait to grab the unwary diver, "never forgets...