Word: mizner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long, soggy peninsula where Ponce de Leon once sought the fountain of youth and Wilson Mizner in the 19203 ordained his palaces of pleasure, winds of change are stirring with gale force. Florida, ending one of its balmiest winters in history, last week greeted the spread of spring across the North with remarkable equanimity. Once the northward exodus of tourists in the springtime rated with the hurricanes as a natu ral catastrophe, inevitably followed by a summer-long slump. Now Florida is the focus of a permanent population shift that has made it the fastest-growing state in the Union...
With a stick in the wet Florida sand, Architect Addison Mizner once drew the outlines of Spanish mansions, clients gave approval on the spot, and construction crews were soon at work on such Palm Beach palaces as Playa Riente, home of Oklahoma Oil King Joshua Cosden, and El Mirasol, where Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury ruled vacationing society. Meanwhile, Addison's brother Wilson and Super-Publicist Harry Reichenbach fleshed out the Mizner principality by adhering to a golden Reichenbach rule: "Get the big snobs and the little snobs will follow...
Last week, 35 years later, many of the great Mizner Alhambras including Playa Riente and El Mirasol had been razed to make room for an expanding society, but Palm Beach was still living by the golden rule, with some notable alloys...
Meanwhile, in the now ancient Mizner villas behind the Poinsettia Curtain, the Old Guard was mumbling bravely into the Minton: "Palm Beach absorbs these people; they cause hardly a ripple...