Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane, train and car, thousands poured into the land of oranges and palms last week as the winter tourist season hit its peak. After a slow start, hotels and motels throughout Florida were filling up. In Miami Beach, guest lists lengthened with the names of Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Arden, Senator John Bricker. Sixty-four miles north, at Palm Beach, the Winston Guests, the Joseph Kennedys and the Duke of Windsor went off to the Polo Ball at the Boca Raton Club, where polo ponies in special stalls were the guests of honor. At Winter Haven's famed Cypress Gardens...
...most notable development in Florida's tourist business has been the growth of motels. Some of them, like La Coquille. opened last week by Rockefeller Heir Spelman Prentice at Palm Beach, are equipped (and priced) for the Ferrari trade, with swimming pools, air-conditioning and room service. But for miles along the highways there are others with prices more in reach of the man who is still working toward his first million (an average of $15 a day, v. $30 in hotels...
Grapefruit & Moonglow. Palm Springs, a gaudy, man-made oasis, has 674 swimming pools, 285 hotels and motels, grapefruit-laden trees, an abundance of gold-rinsed blondes, superb weather, and the unmistakable patina of Hollywood plastered like lipstick on the desert. Palm Springs is not Ike's cup of tea, and he had to fight for the vacation he wanted: rest, golf, fresh air and privacy. When he and Mamie stepped off the Columbine at the moon-bathed Palm Springs Airport, a crowd of 3,000 was on hand to greet them. But plans to deck the streets in bunting...
...President stayed at the luxurious ranch home of Paul Hoy Helms, a bakery president and personal friend, at Smoke Tree Ranch, a plush communal enclave of businessmen in Palm Springs. (The Secret Service picked Helms's home instead of the nearby one of Co-Host Paul Hoffman, because it is more secluded, and has a large, enclosed patio where Mamie and her mother could sunbathe in privacy.) On his first vacation day Ike was up early, worked an hour at his desk after break fast, then played 18 holes of golf at the Tamarisk Club with Hoffman, Helms...
...experiment in Palm Springs, Calif, is going over even better than expected by the International Telemeter Corp. After three months, 148 of the town's 614 sets are equipped with meters to handle the average fee of 95? for each program shown, are returning an average of $10 per set a month...