Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Californians, were heading down Mexico's modern, gas-station-studded highways for the Old-World atmosphere, the bullfights, the silver jewelry and the cheap peso, and a healthy minority from the East were bound for Bermuda's pink sands or for the West Indies, with its palm trees and invigorating cheap...
Easygoing Lloyd Mangrum, who never lets his golf interfere with his good humor, kept right on smiling all through the go-hole Palm Beach Round Robin.* On the final hole, Mangrum had every reason to grin. He saved himself putting troubles by laying his approach shot within nudging distance of the hole, wound up with a winning 16-under-par for the tournament and $3,000. Tired little Ben Hogan, who had squeezed Winner Mangrum out of the U.S. Open playoff the week before, just went through the motions, finished eleventh in a field...
Except during the summer, when he bakes himself to a burnished mahogany on Santa Monica's beach, he weekends at his Palm Springs estate, 100 miles from Los Angeles, where the Zanucks usually entertain 12 to 16 guests. Among the regulars: Elsa Maxwell, Restaurateur Mike Romanoff, the Louis Jourdans, the Reginald Gardiners, Clifton Webb, Agents Charles Feldman and Fefe Ferry...
...West Palm Beach, Fla., county officials, harried by the courthouse pigeons, pondered, decided to spend $5.76 for 36 rubber garter snakes to be placed on the ledge where the pigeons gather...
...first number, the black-haired ecdysiast effects a white gown which can best be described as revealing. Against an artificial background of palm trees and jungle flora, Miss La Rose sings a song describing an ancient Hawaiian custom while passing out lcis to the fortunately-positioned occupants of box and front row seats. Miss La Rose's voice, her least attractive feature, is a sultry contralto. It serves the purpose, however...