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New Year With '�
7-1,: Sun as Usual
Typical Celebration Adds
Fishing and Sailing to
• Customary Night Life
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By George Bourke
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Jan. 4.—
Geodetic experts from time to time
issue warnings that a shifting Gulf
Stream current will some day re-
sult in a climatic change for these
• palmy precincts.But the danger Is
hardly imminent.'
For on New Year's Day, while
the inhabitants of northern com-
munities hurried down snow-cov-
ered streets, gingerly feeling their
way over slippery sidewalks, this •
reporter enjoyed the following
routine . . in a temperature
ranging from a low of 73 to a high
of ?7:
Q' Greeted 1947 in the air-condi-
tioned Latin Quarter, attired in a
1 tropical-weight dinner jacket,
le sporting a gardenia plucked from
his own garden . . , started for
home at 3 a. in. along Venetian '
lightingWay. a moon
of blooming oleanderand hibiscus;
the scent of night-blooming jas-
mine slipping Past the windshield
fins as his convertible—top down
—roiled through the night.
Guests Are Varied
Mammy's—an all-night beach
rendezvous of the stars, the gam-
blers and the plain tourists--at
4 a.m.for cheesecake and a chat
with Jackie Miles,comedian;song-
, writer Benny "Margie" Davis;
k% boxer'Willie Pep; Dean Murphy, '
I\ the impressionist; Frances "ZaZu
Zaz" Faye, Bert Wheeler, movie
star Billy DeWolfe and other frost
fugitives.-It's a noisy place with
chatter providing as much a lure
as its fine food.
Awake at 11, a quick dip in the '
surf and aboard Jack "Ronrico"
Gosch's cruiser for a twenty-min-
ute run out to the Gulf Stream.
A few dolphin, mackerel and
grouper were in the ice bin when
we started back at 2 o'clock.Not a
sailfish bite, but they're out there,
as witness the eighty-four pound,'
seven-foot, ten-inch specimen.
taken by Carl Carlson, of Min-
neapolis, the day before.
Back ashore, the crowded •
beaches—more than twenty thou-
sand in the public areas alone—
created a desire for solitude. Five,
minutes from the sport-shirted
throngs of Twenty-third Street to
Baker's Haulover Beach. Only
four persons in a one-mile stretch.
Two of them were surf-fishing,
with little result. But who would
complain when fishing is done un-
der a fleecy blue-white sky, with
elicans soaring by In echelon for-
atlon, and a warm sun.
Stone Crabs Are Specialty
The sun was dipping behind
r Miami's beautiful skyline..across
Biscayne Bay as we started home
to dress—and down to Joe's Stone
Crabs, an old-fashioned eating ,
place with no band, no high- .
Priced entertainment stars and no
ambling casinos as lures—only
ood, particularly that spe-
cial 'Flozlda-_.delicacy—cold-stone
crabs.
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