Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-centered, demanding of his only son but never close to him, a dominant, feared figure. About his father, Cliff Irving has told friends: "He was always pushing me to go to Hollywood. He had this image of me, I think, sitting beside a swimming pool under the palm trees, directing or producing movies." The elder Irving evidently wanted his son to achieve what he had never gained -influence, money and fame. But Cliff Irving's priorities, one friend says, are first money, then fame. Although father and son never really got along, Clifford said that before he died...
More than most states, Florida embraces the best and worst of America. The losers of life still flock to Daytona Beach to drive cabs and lick their wounds in the sun; the winners arrive at Palm Beach in private yachts and jets to relieve the pressures. Cuban refugees come to Miami to make a new beginning, while a million blacks chafe at the newcomers' ability to take away their jobs by working for less pay. Retired citizens in Hawaiian shirts fill the benches at Sarasota, while migrant workers pass silently through the state in their circuitous search for work...
...researcher who lives on the nearby island of Majorca. Irving hired Suskind-for $50,000 -to do some of the research for the Hughes book, and he is the only person besides Irving who supposedly met Howard Hughes during the project. It was allegedly a brief encounter in a Palm Springs, Calif., motel room where. Suskind has sworn. Hughes offered him an organic prune. Suskind will testify this week in Manhattan. Others who drifted in and out of the Ibiza circle included Robert Kirsch, a longtime friend of Irving's and the book editor of the Los Angeles Times...
Spiro T. Agnew, golfer, announced yesterday that he will once again enter the Bob Hope Desert Classic in Palm Springs, although his achievements have, in the past, been somewhat less than illustrious there. Agnew has played twice, maiming four people with tee shots. Pro golfer Doug Sanders, bloodied in 1970 by an Agnew drive, bemoaned "I was standing in the fairway--I thought I'd be safe there." The American Medical Association could not be reached for comment on Agnew's decision...
Died. Gene Austin, 71, "granddaddy of all crooners," who sold more than 86 million records in the era of crank-up phonographs; of lung cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Austin began his career as an entertainer by pounding bawdyhouse pianos. After a stint in vaudeville, he moved to the recording studios of RCA Victor, where his drawling tenor made hits of tunes like How Come You Do Me Like You Do? and Ramona. His biggest success, My Blue Heaven (1927), became his theme song...