Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juan, Ambassador Seixas teamed up with Larsen to beat Mulloy and Talbert, capture the men's doubles title. Then Vic headed off for London again-via Florida, Texas, Rome, Paris and other continental points. Some distant day, when he finally finds his play "slipping," Vic plans to go to work in his father's Philadelphia wholesale plumbing and heating supply company...
...griddle-flat stretch of Florida coast just south of Daytona Beach one day last week, the air was split by the thunder of 111 motorcycles revving up at once. A white flag waved, and four ranks of cyclists in crash helmets and goggles blasted off along the rock-hard sand. Ahead lay 48 laps of speed work on a 4.2-mile course-and a chance at the National Motorcycle Championship...
...region more noted for sun tans and beauty contests, a fine, full-fledged symphony orchestra topped off its third season last week. Under the direction of Paris-born Yves (pronounced Eve) Chardon, 51, and with a glamorous assist from Metropolitan Opera Soprano Bidu Sayao, the Florida Symphony Orchestra gave a program with a polish and finesse which a more experienced orchestra might envy...
Bright, green, genuine spring warmed the South. Atlanta was abloom with narcissus, forsythia and bridal wreath. Pitchers sweated in baseball training camps from Florida to California. And Mobile held its annual Azalea Trail Parade...
...Florida, where he is wintering, Robert Frost, four-time Pulitzer Poetry Prizewinner, had good news from Manhattan: the Academy of American Poets had awarded him their annual $5,000 fellowship...