Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undertone of anti-American sentiment in a continent that is more important to U.S. defense than either Europe or Asia . . . And if such a policy should eventually lead you to lose Latin America, as you lost China, the enemy will not be facing Hong Kong, but the straits of Florida...
...from Phoenix came cheering news: doctors reported that Nixon's father was "responding beautifully." By deciding to land at the nearest field, Pilot Glass had probably saved Frank Nixon's life, they said. Much relieved, the Vice President departed alone the day after Christmas for a brief Florida vacation, leaving Pat to look after the girls, who were recovering from...
Died. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 57, Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist of backwoods Florida (The Yearling, Golden Apples); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in St. Augustine. Fla. For ten years, hopeful Author Rawlings worked on newspapers, potboiled syndicated verse, wrote (but seldom sold) short stories. In 1928 she settled in Florida's remote swamp country, three years later won a Scribner's novelette contest, turned out two popular novels before The Yearling (1938) won her fame and a fortune in royalties. In 1942 she accurately recorded the manners & morals of her adopted neighbors (Cross Creek), when death came was hard at work...
...thing about all this folderol is that it may prove very popular. The huge CinemaScope screen floods the moviegoer with so much wonderful Florida sunshine that he is apt to sit back, happy as a grapefruit, and soak it up-ignoring the silly background babble of all those Hollywood tourists...
...Easy to Wed, and another of almost the same plot, The Duchess of Idaho. In the first case, the difference between love and marriage should help in telling the pictures apart; in the second, the only real difference is that Idaho was shot in Sun Valley and Love in Florida's Cypress Gardens. All that matters, anyway, is that Mermaid Williams again wears a lockerful of sensational new bathing suits, and any moviegoer who observes their contents with reasonable care will see everything of importance in the film...