Word: palme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fishermen. Off Palm Beach, Fla., a 426-lb. blue marlin simultaneously bit on the hooks of two fishing ministers. At Key West a motorist drove into a canal, trapped two snappers inside...
...machine tool was still abuilding. On the right were dozens of pearl-grey barracks with colonial facades, long mess halls and groundschool buildings; on the left, mammoth hangars skirting the vast bare landing field. Now, just six months later, the arid newness is gone. Grass grows beside the streets, palm and pine spot the once dusty table land. The 200 cadets who stream in each month from the odds & ends of civilian life see a brisk hustle of officers and trainees in their khaki service uniforms or bright whites. That first look shows them that they have come into...
...biggest, heaviest pieces of sculpture on sale in the U.S. last week was bought by a museum with a name so new that no one seemed to know it. The Norton Gallery and School of Art in West Palm Beach (Fla.) paid $10,000 for the yellow, 1,000-pound Youth, by William Zorach. The man who signed the check, and who has signed all the checks so far for Florida's newest palace of culture, was a spare, 65-year-old, fiddle-playing Chicago tycoon (Acme Steel), Ralph H. Norton...
...Ralph Norton who decided that what West Palm Beach needed was an art museum. He first visited the town in 1898, when it sported only two resort hotels. Whenever his job permitted, he came again, watched the town burgeon. In 1935 he bought a home there. When at last he and his wife decided that their picture collection had outgrown their Chicago house, he knew exactly what to do about it. Late last winter his smart, low, $250,000 museum stood completed in West Palm Beach-bounded on one end by the Dixie Highway, on the other by the road...
...nights, under mammoth silver palm trees rising toward a starry blue-silk sky, a changing trio of bands will blare out over a vast dance floor holding 5,000, spectators' stands seating 4,000, cafe sections seating 1,500. Admission is 66? on weekdays, 88? on weekends and holidays, with the partners of Service men admitted free...