Pindar long ago wrote, "Unsung, the noblest deed will die." That immortal line inspired the writing of The Beachboys, a commemoration of an all but forgotten group of surfers of the 1940s and early 1950s. To know their world is to experience what has been the envy of every person, here or abroad, who has been drawn to the California mystique. They were called the Sunset Surfers. They had no store-bought boards, no wetsuits, no leashes, no surfing...