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...first chapter of an intricate crime story that might be entitled Murph the Surf, His Yeggs and All That Unfenceable Swag, a band of thieves slipped into New York City's American Museum of Natural History and footpadded out with 24 gems, including the priceless Star of India sapphire and the $140,000, 100.32-carat DeLong ruby. Chapter II: the cops picked up Jack ("Murph the Surf") Murphy and two Miami beachboy buddies-but not the jewels. Through contacts, the police began shadowy negotiations with the underworld, eventually regained nine of the stones, among them the Star of India...
...glory of her flamed in him. With magnificent nonchalance, he grasped the frail net that shrouded her shoulders, ripped it to shreds, and cocked an appraising eye at the pale, smooth skin. Rhythm beat in their ears. The surf surged and ebbed...
...Sandpiper is a multimillion-dollar drama adapted from a penny-dreadful idea by Producer Martin Ransohoff. Filmed in the declivitous Big Sur country on the California coast, the movie offers mountains, sky, surf, birds and Elizabeth Taylor as an irresistible bohemian painter who lures an upright schoolmaster (Richard Burton) away from his loyal blonde wife. When Star Burton first read the script, he remarked that "it hits pretty close to home." Director Vincente Minnelli exploits this possibility with unctuous professionalism, fielding his glamorous duo in a romance à clef that they appear to take seriously...
...Ronettes playing stickball on Manhattan's Mott Street. Little Anthony and the Imperials mock-"bopping" on the stage of the Brooklyn Fox. Gary Lewis and the Playboys blowing up a squall on the beach at California's Abalone Cove. The continuity was Murray frugging from one surf-or cityside location to the next or jumping into Michigan's River Rouge or plain flipping his trademarked straw...
...Twelve miles east of Southampton is East Hampton. In both Hamptons the ocean influences everything. Its pounding surf has created an unbroken beach of pure, soft, white sand. Moisture from the ocean causes a heavy dew at night so that golf courses rarely need water on their fairways. In general, the Hamptons are as rigidly socially conscious as Newport, and when snobbery has reared its gelid head it has sometimes been intensified by the rivalry between the two communities. For years, Southampton claimed a social edge. It had tighter restrictions on who could buy property in the community...