Word: wahooing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plush playground, Wenner-Gren in 1951 picked flat Andros, biggest (104 miles long) of the Bahama Islands. Andros has not prospered much since pirate times; the population, mostly Negro, is still under 10,000. But it has splendid white beaches, a sunny, breeze-cooled climate and enough bonefish, wahoo, tarpon, blue teal, ducks and wild pigs to win rave notices from rod-and-gun editors. Spending $2,000,000, Wenner-Gren built a luxurious Lighthouse Club (with appointments in silver) and a well-fitted yacht club. The resort opened last month...
Love Points the Way. Darryl Zanuck made his movie debut playing an Indian maiden on an early lot at $1 a day. That was just eleven years after his birth on Sept. 5, 1902, in Wahoo, Neb. (pop. 3,300). Worried about his health, his Methodist parents-Frank Zanuck, an Iowa-born hotel clerk of Swiss parentage and Louise Torpin Zanuck, a Nebraskan of English stock-moved to Los Angeles when Darryl was six. His mother cut his early movie career short as soon as she caught sight of him in Indian costume...