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"I don't think I lost any
friends over it," Mrs. Red-
ford said.. "Elliott Roosevelt?
• •
Well,,Nve were never friends
_
- -anywiy."
' t
.Elliott, s h e wrote, was
elected Miami Beach mayor
by the senior citizens ("with ,
,
the balance of power firmly
held in their wrinkled•
hands") even though "he'd
come to the city only two •
years before and his record ,
• — marital, military, educa-
tional, occupational, finan-
cial, domestic, political, and
personal — was hardly a
t
campaign asset. Elliott is
surely the only public figure
, ever to be described in a
• book by his fifth wife as a
man 'plodding inexorably to- ;,.. • ,
ward ruin.'"
- • For the most part, though, . • ;•. •
her look is an affectionate ' 44 "I‘s't
• one at the Beach and its peo- V I t
.
•
pie — an up-beat appraisal
• of an area which nobody
took seriously enough to re-
cord until it was full-blown.
fEight •
When she describes the
book itself, she admits It ar
only narrowly escaped being •, ,• ,•• ;•W.' II"!
• t h e biography of the late „ • ,
Carl Fisher, who developed • ,;;;
•
the sand spit. a- r'
"I couldn't find any maps 4.- cf. alM;.;','t
of the, island, or any really -4) • •A
documented information, un- :I
til I found that Fisher's pa- • • • • '• '
4,in'',f4S " •
• pers were at the Historical • •- •
• •
Society. The only trouble • •
was, they were roachy and
•
wet from hurricanes. It took •-•
•,me two years to dry, them
out, by which time my hus-
band would have had
grounds for divorce — I was :-4,:tutAlliE • , •, . •
so involved with the image ..tv,
• of this man.
"Everyone who talked of
him (she has given 25 tape-
recorded hours of interviews 3.010
••on the subject to the Univer-
•sity of Miami Library's Flori-
, • da collection) "just bubbled
on about him . . . about his
personal magnetism . . his
enthusiasm. He was
• electric!"
She described him in writ-
ing, nonetheless, as the free
• thinking, free wheeling, alco-
halls. undomesticated. disr.-
.,...10101441111111PutabLe, •outrageously pope ---
lar animal that he was. • - - • '
The book got its start in • r
4,4"
her mind when Russel Pan-
coast, one of the earliest Mi- • L.r.
TE1/10te CI _az: •
a m I Beach residents when
that place really was just an •
unglorified mosquito-ridden ' •
.
sandbar, gave a talk to the
Coconut Grove Civic Club. f(S1 441:1 /4...1.3411"
"I was fascinated with his
memories," she says, "and
my theory has always been , •
. that the main subject that •i,grIg •k•:.ott e
excites people in Florida is •: • ..•
the land . . . real estate."
The most animated group at
a cocktail party, she main-
tains, will not be telling dirty
jokes but will be swapping
land stories.
Be that as it may, she says
s h e began researching
"Sandbar" even before fin- '
ishing her second book,
"Christmas Bower." And she •
- wasn't really cheating on her
chosen subject, but she
played with the peripheral ar
eas too. Such as the airport,
which after all brought the
tourism explosion to the
Beach. Describing it, she
writes:
"Once inside the airport,
' the new arrival finds himself
in a maze of refrigerated
passages smelling of kero-
sene., The people are sun- .
burned, and wearing the
wildest array of sport and re- •
sort clothes to be found any-
:
'4"- • where on the planets; they
turn the corridors and wait-
ing
wog/aka/64r
Wgirlfrw rooms of Miami'Interna-
tional into a human zoo.
"No place on earth can
one see more old women
dyed and painted to look like
young ones, and so many
young ones with no faces at
all — just pancake, lipstick,
• eye shadow and wigs.
"No other airport has more
nervous little dogs with jew-
eled collars, more luscious
callipygian Latinas in higher,
wilder heels, more amateur
photographers hung with
bigger cases of useless equip..
ment. There are Puerto Rican