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ROBERT C. LINDEN Pensacola Beach...
...Then the review said that this was the best book on New York youth since A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." Miller shrugged helplessly. "Maybe it will get some books sold in Pensacola...
...from the Detroit Free Press spent the whole time damning the jacket design, and yelling at me for having my age on the flyleaf. The only quote he took from the book was, 'Clive T. Miller was born in Brooklyn in 1938.... That annoyed me. But a reviewer in Pensacola, Florida, took the thing completely seriously. The review said 'this is a hard-hitting, two-fisted novel; there's a rape, there's a rumble, and intimate letters from a young girl left alone all summer in New York...
...Anderson longed for wings. Annapolis had given him a short course in aviation, and in 1930, following a brief stint on a cruiser in the Pacific, he shipped to Pensacola for full flight training. After that, he flew catapult-launched seaplanes from the decks of cruisers in the Atlantic Fleet, suffered his first "and only significant" crash: during aerial gunnery practice one day, a tow target got wrapped around Anderson's propeller; the plane came down flat on its back onto a Virginia beach. Anderson crawled out uninjured...
...stroke-play tournament. Both had already played close to 100 holes, and it was Billy Joe who went to pieces-into the trees on the 34th and a sand trap on the 35th-leaving Harris to face Downing Gray, a 24-year-old insurance man and weekend golfer from Pensacola, Fla., in the finals...