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...Miami Beach Lou Walter's Latin Quarter, and Giro's, a dazzling new nightspot, have become the places-one-must-be-seen-in. The exclusive, million-dollar Surf Club, closed last year, is open again, has 100 new members. The snooty, conservative Bath Club is having a terrific year, reminiscent of the plushest days...
...Sicily campaign men of the 54th Battalion saved the lives of more than 175 soldiers trapped on a bombed and burning LST by erecting a bridge of pontoons to another ship. On another day they rescued a fleet of landing craft which was being pounded to pieces in the surf. Bulldozer operators steered their caterpillar machines into the waves and pushed the boats out into deeper, quieter water...
Conventional oil drilling is vertical: drill ers bore a narrow shaft down through the layer of sedimentary rock in which the oil is stored. From the small shaft surf ace they usually get only about 20% of the oil actually present...
...Surf in Her Head. The best feature of The Walsh Girls is its superb characterization of Lydia. Reaching her 40th birthday in the summer of 1935, teacher of high-school English to classes that were now filled with the children of her old school mates, neat, precise, churchgoing, independent, heartbreakingly lonely, she lived alone in the mansion she inherited, an exemplification of the remoteness of the culture she taught from the stirring life around her. Each morning she put on her black hat with a feather on it, her scarf, galoshes, sweater and coat, and went to her class...
Cloak & Dagger Man. The public learned to watch him after his spectacular trip to North Africa in October 1942. He went by British submarine, made contact with French patriots who eased the way for the November landings, got away to sea again after a ducking in the surf that lost $18,000 in gold. After winning his three stars, at 46, he was one of the youngest U.S. lieutenant generals...