Word: suntan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lunch at the Trade Winds Restaurant (which also cooks the fish he catches), goes goose-bumpy at the thought of hooking a 50-lb. sailfish (which are accommodating enough to bite the year round), hires a boat, or joins a party that wants to split expenses. Then, begoggled and suntan oiled, and supplied with rod, reel and heavy 24-thread line that experts would blush at using, he is lugged to Gulf Stream fishing spots. Captain or mate tutors him in the "drop back" sail-fishing technique (i.e., when a fish hits the bait with its bill...
...Mexico, so irresolutely developed as a character that he remains in the memory chiefly as a yell with red hair. As a curtain raiser (it would make a good short by itself) there is also a rather cute penguin who travels north to an equatorial island and acquires a suntan. The movie as a whole presents the unhappy spectacle of a brilliant artist screaming his lungs out in an effort to make up for the fact that he has, for the moment, nothing...
Dapper, boyish Sherman Billingsley, 44, seemed tired as he bowed over ladies' hands at cocktails. In the summer he likes to go to the Atlantic Beach Club at Long Beach, Long Island, to dabble in the surf and suntan himself for a hard winter in doors. But now he was losing his tan; all last week Billingsley had been kept from the beach by New York's hen-shaped May or LaGuardia. On the previous Saturday night the Mayor had sent four uninvited characters into the lush decor of Billingsley's famed blue-and-gold Stork Club...
...nude white dolls are turned into storybook characters in a 40,000-sq.-ft. factory in San Francisco, where most of the work runs like Chevrolet's prize production line. The dolls move in a steady stream from spray-painting (a healthy suntan), through face-painting, hair-cementing (British mohair-blond, gold, auburn or brunette) etc., to a score of high-school girls who specialize, after school hours, in putting on panties, and then to the final dresses. But the sewing room is not so easy to manage. Even though Nancy Ann rotates sewing jobs so that every worker...
People who never bought an original picture in their lives now throng a Manhattan gallery called the Hall of Art, buy some $2,000 worth of canvases a day. They are there because of an ex-druggist, ex-suntan-oil and alarm-clock promoter, ex-salesman of the kazoo-bazooka and the megazoo. The idea man is a 45-year-old, roly-poly, Russian-born go-getter named Max Pochapin...