Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest, heaviest pieces of sculpture on sale in the U.S. last week was bought by a museum with a name so new that no one seemed to know it. The Norton Gallery and School of Art in West Palm Beach (Fla.) paid $10,000 for the yellow, 1,000-pound Youth, by William Zorach. The man who signed the check, and who has signed all the checks so far for Florida's newest palace of culture, was a spare, 65-year-old, fiddle-playing Chicago tycoon (Acme Steel), Ralph H. Norton...
...main system was completed in 1939. Finished last week were 150 more miles of distributing lines which pipe the water from the filter plant (capacity: 1,000,000 gallons a day) near Riverside to the reservoirs of Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Long Beach, Santa Ana, nine other cities. As the sweet waters of the far-off Colorado slowly welled up last week into a subterranean chamber supplying Sunset Reservoir, Pasadena became the first community in the system to get the District's water...
...uniform. >> The fabulously wealthy Maharaja of Jaipur, 29, joined the British forces in Egypt as a captain. At home he has a private army of his own, rides in a solid gold-and-silver coach. >> Mrs. Otto H. Kahn made herself useful in Cairo's British canteens. >> Rex Beach (The Spoilers, The Ne'er-do-Well), 63, registered for civilian defense in Florida, said he wanted to fight fires. >> Torchsinger Libby Holman's young second husband, Actor Ralph Holmes, lost his draft appeal. The board decided Libby could support herself if she couldn't get along...
...most successful maneuver so far was a full page shot on page 67 of the May 19 issue of Life- a profile of K.T. in black satin trunks and white satin blouse on a California beach, her honey-blonde tresses flowing in the breeze, gazing demurely at the cameraman. It was most effective. The caption road "Slim-legged honey blonde hits 2,252 papers"; photogenic K.T. didn't know if this was hyperbole or not, had kept no box score, could not say how many papers had run the picture...
...Park. As a Hollywood press agent he plugged Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd, George Arliss, Lupe Velez, Hedy Lamarr. During the past decade he press-agented more than 50 night clubs, in 1936 opened his own La Conga in Hollywood, followed it with several Beachcombers (in Manhattan, Providence, Boston, Miami Beach) and Manhattan's Copacabana. In these resorts he has featured tropic atmosphere and a tall, affirmative rum drink called the Zombie, shrewdly advertised: "Only Two Zombies to a Customer." Imperturbable showman Proser himself doesn't like rum, sticks to Scotch-&-water, once told a New Yorker reporter...