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...minutes, knee-deep on the hissing shingle. After his circulation was thus methodically aroused, he plunged in, swam past the breakers, churned up & down parallel to the beach for 45 minutes, ably swimming side stroke, breast stroke, Australian crawl. Then he went to lunch (fruit only) at the moderately swank Dunes Club, then back to the beach to sun on a mattress, read (Grapes of Wrath) through dark glasses, listen to radio newscasts, until 5 o'clock. He swam for an hour again before returning to the Green Inn to dine on vegetables...
...Angeles burlesque house which caters to the sailor trade. He has been there ever since. Meanwhile, Mickey's mother had pushed Mickey into the films. A good friend of Mickey and his mother, nowadays "the old man" is often invited to swim and ride on their swank San Fernando Valley estate, occasionally takes his son to a prizefight or baseball game...
What has kept the attendance below estimates is anybody's guess. Some guesses: 1) entrance fee too high; 2) unfavorable reports of high food prices, etc. (an 85? dinner, 40? lunch, can be got at the Fair but its swank restaurants charge five times as much); 3) New York City itself is too much competition for any world's fair; 4) antagonism of country's press toward New York; 5) absence of community pride among New Yorkers; 6) hard times. Whatever the reasons, the Fair failed to get its expected Big Push in July. (For that month...
Last week Courier Wagner herded his dusky charges into Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel. Few days later His Highness paid President Roosevelt a visit, his companions went rubbernecking about the Capital. But nobody checked in or out without notifying Courier Wagner. Between times he lolled in his suite, happily bibbing a double martini cradled in shaved...
...Remo, Italy, Maria Piombo, 39, stalked up and down swank Empress Boulevard wearing a sandwich board which read: "I want a husband, even a used one." Arrested, she admitted that she only wanted to embarrass a man who had jilted...