Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organizer for Hoffa's Central Conference of Teamsters, Baker visited Miami, there lavished $25,000-in Teamsters Union funds, naturally-on a house, swimming pool and Buick for his doxy. Since 1953 Baker has spent $2,200-also in Teamsters' money-for sanitarium treatment that brought his weight down from 420 Ibs. to an oafish...
...marlin. He keeps a summer home in East Hampton, L.I., a Manhattan apartment, a house near some of his Cuban plants, a Havana apartment and a 215-year-old hacienda in Pinar del Rio province. His weekend place outside Havana boasts an airstrip, boathouse, skeet and trap layout, swimming pool, bar, guest cottages, servants' houses. The place is called "Yemaya," an Afro-Cuban voodoo word for virgin; Hedges likes the name so well that he also gave it to his 34-ft. yacht...
...when Rosy quit day school a year later to help support his family, he turned naturally to photography. He became a hustling freelancer who got a beat on the Baltimore fire of 1904 by driving a farmer's wagon through police lines. The next year he was pool photographer at Teddy Roosevelt's Russo-Japanese peace conference in Portsmouth, N.H. "You really had to push to get shots in those days," recalls Rosy. "The other guys would pull your slides or put chewing gum on your lenses...
...dime on much else. Good clubs spend an average $2,300 per hole per year to keep up the golf course, another $1,000 to keep up each tennis court, etc., etc.-all of which are maintained for the pleasure of a relatively few members. The $100,000 swimming pool, open from May 30 to Labor Day, flows with...
Freestyle Loser. In Maldon, England, Leslie Gurnay dived into a swimming pool, rescued a drowning boy, was charged 18? to change his wet clothes in the pool bathhouse...