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...snow-mantled Olympic Mountains were formed, on the peninsula between Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean, is not precisely recorded. In 1909 President Theodore Roosevelt had Mount Olympus (8,150 ft.) and some 800,000 acres around it set aside as a national "monument," a refuge for a majestic strain of elk which roamed there, thereafter called Roosevelt...
...Salem, he went down to a scrubbed-up coal wharf at which his yacht Potomac had tied up. There, Anne and her pretty 18-year-old sister Sally went aboard with John to pose for more photographs. Father Roosevelt had the ship anchor for the day off the Nahant peninsula. That evening the wedding party dined aboard, later went ashore for more gaiety than the Presidential yacht could offer...
...Miami set to work. He himself arrived by chartered plane and 14 more G-men flew in after him. Divers groped in old limestone quarries and pools; volunteer speedboats toured the keys; Seminoles and white trappers searched in the poisonous Everglades; planes scoured the wide, wild tip of the peninsula-all looking for a child they no longer expected to find alive...
Florida is a fabulous place, a low-lying (max. elev. 325 ft.) peninsula full of paradoxes and contrasts, great banality and great excitement. It offers to the observer hurricanes and breathless heat, some of the world's healthiest fish and scrawniest cattle, the unbelievably hard living of the Everglades and the unbelievably soft living of Palm Beach. Every year 2,000,000 visitors drive, ride, sail and fly there to see such divergent sights as the matchless Rubens collection in the Ringling Art Museum at Sarasota, the barbarously gaudy architecture of Hollywood, the flowerlike flamingos in the infield...
...community so rich in the stuff of life could fail to provide a political scene of more than common interest and activity. True to form, with the Democratic primary elections a fortnight away, last week the Florida peninsula was restlessly ending a notably lively three-cornered fight for the nomination which would mean the occupancy of Claude Pepper's U. S. Senate seat. For the past six weeks, Messrs. David Sholtz, Mark Wilcox and Claude Pepper, as well as two other minor candidates whose names not even many Florida voters knew, had been touring Florida's sticky villages...