Word: kennebunkport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...physical resources and assets was relatively small. Only about 1% of our forest resources was burned or damaged. ... Losses in farm stands, while severe to owners, will have small effect on Maine's overall agricultural economy. . . . The attractive Bar Harbor colony lost some valuable summer estates and the Kennebunkport area suffered heavily, but . . . most of our seashore and lake resorts were untouched by the fires...
...Choicest: Miami's razzle-dazzle Roney Plaza and, 40 miles up the Florida coast, the ultra-plush Boca Raton Club. Other Schine properties: Miami's McAllister, Albany's Ten Eyck, Atlantic City's Ritz-Carlton, the Breakwater Court at Kennebunkport, Me., the Northampton Hotel and Wiggins Old Tavern at Northampton, Mass...
...Whitcomb Riley and George Ade, he carved his niche with tender, trenchant satire on U.S. life and manners. A tremendous worker, he wrote 60 novels and plays, drove himself so hard that he once lost his eyesight. In the belief that pleasure should pay, he financed upkeep of his Kennebunkport, Me. home with chucklers about summer people (Mary's Neck), helped pay for his art collection with Rumbin Galleries. Tarkington on writing: "A very painful job-much worse than having measles...
Booth Tarkington, 75-year-old, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist and connoisseur of art, who summers at Kennebunkport, Me., attacked the Kennebunkport post office mural, an old WPA project depicting bulgy bathers on a beach. Author Tarkington regarded the work as "painful to Kennebunkport's old timers. Why, Kennebunkport doesn't even have a bathing beach...
...cinemaddict long before it became fashionable for intellectuals to take movies seriously, wrote learned papers about films for the Princeton art and archaeology department Bulletin, and the defunct, advance-guard expatriate quarterly transition. For a rest after completing his monumental job on Dürer, Panofsky retired to his Kennebunkport retreat, where he spends much time with his friend and neighbor, Art Collector Booth Tarkington...