Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FLORIDA: OLD BIRDS FLY AGAIN ON A SPARKLING WEEKEND DOWN IN FLORIDA, SOME PEOPLE WHO CARE PASSIONATELY FOR WORLD WAR II AIRPLANES -- "WARBIRDS," THE DEVOTEES CALL THEM -- PUT ON A SHOW. ON FRIDAY THE P-51S AND THE C-46S AND THE B-25 BOMBERS CAME RUMBLING INTO TITUSVILLE OUT OF A FLAWLESS SKY (YOUR FAVORITE PAINT-AND-FENDER MAN COULDN'T SPRAY A BETTER ONE), AND ON SATURDAY 13,000 PEOPLE PAID TO WATCH THEM ALL FLY. IT WAS A SWEET, INNOCENT EXERCISE, FOR THE CROWD AS WELL AS THE PILOTS, AND NOSTALGIA CLUNG TO THE AIR LONG AFTER...
...years later, Davey Senior ran off to Florida with another woman, leaving Rose with the first of her children, Davey Junior, a boy of 15 today. Davey's one winter jacket was stolen last week. Rose vows to get it back. Joey, the second-oldest child, was produced by Frankie, with whom Rose lived for a year. The four other children belong to Vincent, with whom, until recently, Rose has been in an on-and-off custody war. Rose won the first * battle after Vincent had taken Sabrina and was sent to jail in handcuffs. "I hated...
...Cross ambulance driver. His cartoon creations were a hit in France from the beginning. Generations of French children have grown up with Mickey, Grincheux (Grumpy), Simplet (Dopey) and the other Disney characters, and French tourists by the thousands visit the American Disney parks in California and Florida every year. While anti- Americanism has swelled up in other areas of French life, no one ever seemed to have anything against Mickey Mouse...
...passed into many editions. The most valuable remains the version decorated with paintings by N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), the great illustrator of Robin Hood and Treasure Island. Now, as a Reissued Classic, The Yearling (Scribners; $19.95) is again available. Once more the tragic but redeeming life of the Florida backcountry is illuminated by a giant of the genre...
Michel Bergerac, the ousted chairman of Revlon, would surely agree. Revlon spent nearly five months trying to elude Pantry Pride, a Florida supermarket chain that is about one-third Revlon's size, but the cosmetics king was finally acquired for $2.7 billion in November. Though Bergerac's pain at seeing his company bought was eased by a $36 million parting settlement, or golden parachute, he still talks like a bitter man. "The whole thing was crazy," he says. "Here we built a great American corporation. Then through this process the stock ended up in the hands of arbitragers, who forced...