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...Windward." After the hurricane of that year, the place was re-christened "Still to Windward." The main house was rebuilt in ampler proportions, two houses for the sons, a house for Judge Medina's mother, a remodeled library, a boathouse and numerous outbuildings. It is a family playground, now less elaborately maintained than it was, for in 1947 Harold Medina gave up a law practice of $100,000 a year to serve as federal judge at a salary...
Detroit's high-school swains discovered a ghost last spring. As they explained darkly to their giggling dates, the ghost was a little girl. She had been hurrying home from the playground when she was hit by an automobile coming down Strasburg Avenue. For a few moments, the little girl clung desperately to the car, rapping on the fender. The driver heartlessly drove on. Then the little girl lost her grip and was crushed beneath a rear wheel...
...doom of the small University Hall Commons sooner or later, the immediate cause of its end was a growing tendency on the part of students to eat elsewhere as often as possible, and when they did chance to dine in Commons, to treat it as a sort of unofficial playground and circus area...
...people were killed, thousands maimed), the town had staged a remarkable comeback. It is not only the chief port for Texas cotton and Texas sulphur but-by virtue of its beaches and its tolerance-the state's leading hot weather resort, convention city and playground. The Maceo brothers, Sam and Rose (for Rosario), two dark, big-nosed Sicilian-born barbers who became Prohibition rumrunners, were among the leading spirits of this renaissance...
...Association, quickly cleaned up the trade. Now, the good motels bar local Romeos, offer special features to attract not only overnight travelers, but vacationing families who prefer informal, inexpensive living to dressing up in a hotel. Max Mosko's Hi-Way Motel in Denver has a fenced-in playground for children and a day nursery with a free doll-lending service. Many Florida motels greet customers with a free glass of orange juice; in Dallas, the Town House gives guests a taste of Texas hospitality by serving them breakfast in bed. In California's desert areas, air-conditioning...