Word: aldebaran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neon signs glared garishly before such nightspots as Maxim's, Harry's Bar and the tinseled Kit Kat Club, where a burnished blonde from Budapest chanted defiantly: "Bingle, bangle, bungle, I'm so happy in the jungle, I refuse to go." In the black sky overhead, Aldebaran, Betelgeuse and Rigel blazed as brightly as they had centuries before when Arab herdsmen first gave them their names...
...master of the schooner Chiva Captain Hayden traded through the West Indies. He took the 96-ft. brigantine Florence C. Robinson out to Tahiti. Two years ago, with a partner, he bought the schooner Aldebaran, built for Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (as the yacht Meteor III) before World War I. Hayden's idea was to start a passenger service between Hawaii and Tahiti. On his way to Boston to outfit her, Aldebaran ran into a gale off Cape Hatteras, crept into Charleston, S. C. a virtual wreck...
...Boston newsman who first wrote that big, bronzed Stirling Hayden, with his head of unkempt, golden hair, "ought to be in the movies." For months afterward hard-boiled sailors would shout at him across the water: "Yoo hoo! You ought to be in the movies!" When Hayden lost Aldebaran in Charleston, his friend Larry O'Toole, a Boston artist and member of the crew, remembered the newsman, looked him up, through him got in touch with a Hollywood agent. The agent took some photographs of Hayden to Paramount and showed them to Edward Griffith, who was at that moment...