Word: beaconed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Application for entry can be made to the Red Feather office at 9 Beacon St., Boston...
...Peabody & the Mermaid (Universal-International). Mr. Peabody (William Powell), a proper Bostonian on vacation far from Beacon Street, hooks the Mermaid (Ann Blyth) in Caribbean waters. He keeps her first in his bathtub, then in his fish pond. He likes her, more than seems proper for a married man to like a mermaid. She likes him, too. She bites a girl who is flirting with him, and causes his jealous wife to huff back to Boston. In the long run the lovers have to part and a psychiatrist takes over with a full explanation. Men around 50, he points...
Mansions & Masses. From his merchant uncle, John Hancock inherited a fortune, an interest in 20 ships, a vast mansion on Beacon Hill, with one of the loveliest gardens in Boston. He graduated from Harvard, worked in his uncle's countinghouse, visited England, returned to Boston two years before his uncle's death, and took over the business in a year when trade declined...
Bright Red Beacon. Most of Professor Tinbergen's work has been with sticklebacks, prickly fresh-water fish that make good subjects for "releaser" experiments. The male builds a nest of fine sticks and tries to persuade females to lay their eggs inside it. He wastes no time on nonpregnant females. But when he sees one with a swollen abdomen, her shape acts upon him as a powerful releaser. He rushes into the lists of love, displaying his own releaser: a bright red belly...
...earliest aspirations toward European unity were mostly military. Rome unified those parts of Europe that it cared to lay hands on; but Europe as an entity did not exist. Charlemagne, a brief beacon in the Dark Ages, headed a "Roman Empire"-with the blessing of a new force for unity, the universal Church. Since then, most of the would-be unifiers have been secular-Charles V, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Hitler...