Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which operated 27 hotels east of the Rockies (business: $64 million in the last fiscal year), is expanding to the West Coast. The $125 million chain has just laid out some $4,000,000 for Pasadena's Huntington Hotel, which says it is the West's biggest resort hotel...
...hanging a Mexican horse thief. Later, however, the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad decided to cash in on the area's magnificent scenery (Pike's Peak, Garden of the Gods, etc.) and climate (69° average in summer, 29° in winter), promoted a swank resort. So many young Englishmen came that Colorado Springs was called "Little Lunnon." Amidst the Rockies they played cricket and polo; one wrote that the city was civilized because "wherever you find polo, you find good clubs, good society and, usually, good tea." Nowadays, Colorado Springs (pop. 46,000) mixes manicured elegance with...
...whose ailments could be forestalled partly through better care before and during birth. ¶ Dr. Milford Thewlis of the American Geriatrics Society warned his colleagues that treating the aged as if they were middle-aged often results in dangerous "overtreatment." Samples: too-vigorous examinations, overdoses of drugs, too-hasty resort to surgery. Said Thewlis: "As a matter of fact, many [elderly] people seem to get along [on] skillful neglect." ¶One in nine "moderate" drinkers is certain to become an alcoholic, declared the University of Illinois' famed and controversial physiologist, Dr. Andrew C. Ivy (TIME, April...
...from Caddy. Sam Snead was born and raised in Ashwood, a hamlet near the mountain resort of Hot Springs, Va. and its famed golf hotel, the Homestead. The five Snead brothers begged broken-shafted clubs from the Homestead caddy master, and replaced their splintered wooden shafts with whittled hickory sticks or old buggy-whip handles. Sometimes they carved an entire driver from a hickory sapling with a knotty root...
...cozy little resort spot called Zephyr Cove on the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe, sultry Cinemactress Ava Gardner, 31, settled down for six weeks while awaiting a divorce from Husband No. 3, Crooner-Cinemactor Frank Sinatra (No.1: Cinemugger Mickey Rooney; No. 2: Bandleader Artie Shaw). Though well on her way to challenging the marriage records of such Hollywood veterans as Arline Judge (six husbands) and Hedy Lamarr (only five), Ava seemed momentarily weary. Just back from Italy, she was on the mend after a bout with two kidney stones. Nor had she got a warm welcome from her studio, which...