Two days after Christmas, and after weeks of planning, the dinner party for 200 people contracted by Tom Tilson starts to get underway at the Gull Reef Club. Church Wagner, the bartender, has organized another beach party free for guests of the hotel at the nearby Lovers Beach complete with complementary steaks, drinks, and a dramatic leap of Navy parachutists. The club has become a Cecil B. DeMille production as hordes of sweating black laborers haul great quantities of food and drink to the sandy beach for the barbeque, and Sheila the cook oversees both the beach party for guests as well as the special Tilson dinner party. As things get revved up, Tilson pulls Paperman aside and tells him that Church has infected at least six schoolgirls out of seven in.....
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