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...Heavy surf and high winds battered the Scottish coast, but a fishing boat carried the doctor through to his Very...
...fireside ("Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!") has swept the boys into frenzy. As Simon scrambles out of the woods, they fall upon him and, making him surrogate for the beast, kill him. A brief and poignant scene follows: in the warm cradle of the surf Simon's small body is rocked to and fro, swaddled in a glimmer of phosphorus until it is carried...
...beach resembles Seal Rock in mating season. Frankie Avalon, with his pack of gold-necklaced surf jockeys, and Annette Funicello, with her bevy of busty beach bunnies are-in the words of one of their tribal hymns-"just asurfin' all day and swingin' all night." But danger lurks in the dunes: a marauding band of post-Brando wild ones roars up on a midnight raid. Quinquagenarian Cummings, with precious little help from Frankie, sends them yelping off with their motorcycles tucked between their legs...
...More Nudes. Surfboard riding did not really make a West Coast splash until the advent of a 1959 cinespectacle called Gidget. Teen-age Heroine Gidget (Sandra Dee) was the pelvic oracle of surfdom. After her came the surf bums, the peroxided boys and girls who at first gave surfing a bad name-and not only because of their outlandish hairdos. Throbbing to guitars at midnight twist parties, they were fond of nudity and occasional ransacking of beach homes. But slowly the genuine challenge of the sport attracted a better ilk, and bit by bit an entire subculture emerged...
Today, California newspapers offer frequent columns of surf news. Magazines such as Surfer and Surfing Illustrated have appeared on the stands. Surf songs keep deejays spinning even in Chicago, which is relatively surfless. And from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border, when the word goes out that "surf's up!" whole families go streaming toward the handiest stretch of Pacific shore. "Ninety percent are beginners," broods Bill Cooper, executive secretary of the U.S. Surfing Association. "Half of them give it up in a year or two, but then there are more-and the real danger of surfing...