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...primate a secret from people living near research center. This led to difficulties recently when a child's shoe was found on a lonely stretch of beach near Jacksonville. Police began an excited investigation and learned that the shoe belonged to the "child" gorilla, which had been surf bathing with his human "family" and child-like, had forgotten his shoe...
...island of Bermuda was discovered in 1515 by a Spanish sea-captain whose name, strangely enough, was Juan de Bermudez. To celebrate this coincidence, the entire Bermuda Chamber of Commerce bicycled through the surf to meet his boat and present generous gifts of rum and other sundry spirits...
...Athlete's Deception" is base don the knowledge that the gem of the Bermuda social set in the smooth, casual rugby player. Seated comfortably in a hotel lobby, preferably that of the Elbow Beach Surf Club, and having engaged in the morning change of clothes by means of the first two articles mentioned above, the adventurer undertakes quiet conversation with available bunnies...
Waugh, who lived by the sea in Provincetown, Mass., painted about 75 surf-scapes a year, sold almost all of them at fat prices. For variety's sake he kept-shifting the rocks in his pictures: sometimes they occupied the left-hand side of the canvas, sometimes the right, and now & again the center. Moderns who sniffed at his sticking to a proven formula overlooked the fact that such abstractionists as Mondrian did the same thing...
...place-notably by its aggressive selling of synthetic detergents (soapless cleansers), the industry's biggest postwar phenomenon. Lever's big mistake was its failure to anticipate the popularity of detergents. When Luckman took over, Lever had no detergent on the market. By the time Luckman brought out "Surf" in early 1948, P. & G.'s "Tide" was already sweeping the market-and had no trouble holding its lead...