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...family has fallen on evil days. To keep the big house going, they have let all the servants go, and they take in transients during the season. They take in two young men from Athens, one of whom (Dimitri Horn) soon has his eye on Marina. At first she is cool. She is bitterly ashamed of her family's poverty, and almost morbid with humiliation when the whole town starts to talk about her mother, who has been beating about the bushes with a local lounger ("The older the hen," somebody snickers, "the better the broth...
...pointed .to other Southern cities, where Negroes seldom appear on integrated courses. Outspoken Mayor Russell outlined a problem worrying many another Dixie city official: "A handful of Negroes can put us out of the recreation business entirely. We have miles of public beaches, a swimming pool, and the finest marina anywhere in the world. The same thing can happen to those facilities that happened to the golf course. The decision to sell is a step backwards in solving our problems...
...floor has a screen of sky-blue ceramic tile; the upper two stories have a curtain wall of grey glass spandrels hung from the roof girders. For added elegance, the interior court will be ringed with columns of Pentelic marble, the base of the building with dark grey Santa Marina marble. Amid the dignity and elegance there will be practicality: the basement will house a garage for 35 to 50 cars; a double roof will provide air-cooling space...
Even bigger and better marinas are on the way. Near Los Angeles, where the Wilmington East Basin Yacht Center already serves more than 1,200 boats, the State of California is spending $14 million for one of the world's biggest marinas with dock and service facilities for 1,800 boats at Alamitos Bay, hopes to, have it finished by 1960. In the Puget Sound area half a dozen new marinas are abuilding, including one $500,000 anchorage at Roche Harbor with a special customs-immigration office to speed Canada-bound yachtsmen on their way. Marina Builder Charles...
Families, Not Fishermen. The marina builders will have a hard time catching up with the boat-crazy U.S. public. With more leisure and higher pay than ever before, almost any U.S. worker can buy a boat, pay for it on time (33% down, 24 months for the balance) and go bouncing off over the whitecaps and away from crowded highways. The new yachtsmen want their boats for family fun instead of for a strictly masculine hobby...