Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flock was one of the starters this week at West Palm Beach in the final race of the year, sponsored by NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing). Flock was involved in a neck & neck race with Herb Thomas, defending national champion, for the 1952 title...
...Last Resorts, by Cleveland Amory. An agreeably lighthearted historian applies a social stethoscope to Newport, Bar Harbor, Saratoga, Palm Beach, and other aging resorts of the rich (TIME...
Commuting by Yacht. The biggest and flashiest trailer parks are in California, where 300,000 people live in 4,000 parks. In Palm Springs's swank Rancho Trailer Park (284 spaces), the current gag is: "You can tell a poor trailer owner because he washes his Cadillac himself." Near Balboa, overlooking the Pacific, is the 230-space Lido Trailer Park, a sort of Palm Beach on wheels. There trailer spaces rent for as much as $100 a month, and trailerites moor their yachts in slips along the front of the park. Many have two trailers, one to live...
That was in turn-of-the-century days, when any millionaire looking for the shortest distance between the cash register and the social register usually made a beeline for such society resorts as Saratoga, Bar Harbor, Tuxedo Park, Southampton, Palm Beach and Newport. In those days, Society with a capital S was blissfully unaware that Taxes with a capital T would ever chase it away from its playgrounds. Nowadays, as one New-porter put it before he died in 1950: "The '400' has been marked down...
...flirtations were supposed to be Bar Harbor's specialties. Nowadays, old-fashioned flirting is extinct, and the colony's Alice Van Rensselaer thinks she knows why: "The granddaughter of the girl who wouldn't show her instep now shows her step-ins." And so it goes. Palm Beach, Saratoga, the Berkshires. the Virginia springs-they aren't what they used to be, chants Author Amory...