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...Laguna Beach, Calif...
...POWER Laguna Beach, Calif...
...local records, one in scholarship, the other in athletics. Sylvia Walker of Bethlehem, Pa., "greatest athlete ever developed at Bryn Mawr," they named Queen of the May. She was already senior president; had captained the basketball and hockey teams; had played on the lacrosse team. At Frederica De Laguna, daughter of Professor and Mrs. Theodore De Laguna, respectively the head and a member of the Bryn Mawr philosophy department, they marveled when it was announced that she had scored 304 out of a possible 315 honor points in her courses. The previous record was 279 points. A European scholarship...
...fiery master of the piano, a sort of Pietro Mascagni of fiction, with huge handfuls of blue-black hair and the hot blood of Italy's vine-clad valleys. Elizabeth Sinclair died soon after Adrienne was born; Kajetan, like a wanton Ulysses, had left for other shores. In Laguna Vista, California, a delicious world began to unfold itself to Adrienne . . . bronzed turkeys leapt at pungent, low-hanging figs . . . bronzed Mammy chanted of great green forests with scarlet birds and swinging animals . . . enchanted cream-colored people looked down from gilded frames within the house. . . . Why were no bronzed people like...
...long combers of the Pacific were holding their usual stately parade into Laguna Beach, Calif. Luxuriating on the sands lay seminaked figures, brown with bathing, supple with youth, ripple-thewed from exercise. Watching the rollers lazily, the loafing ones would watch little figures scooting shoreward at the forefoot of a comber, lying flat in the foam or poised excitingly erect on flying surf boards...