Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kansas, where the big wind began that carried Dorothy to the Land of Oz, the Wichita Beacon last week had an Oz-like notice on its bulletin board...
...flying-saucer reports in this area is increasing. The latest . . . if true . . . gives us the best report of a flying saucer published anywhere in the country. For that reason, if you have a camera, you are urged to keep it with you at all times ready to shoot." The Beacon also alerted its 30 stringers (part-time correspondents) around the state and asked its readers to organize themselves into "volunteer watching" groups...
...story that set off the Beacon's hunt had appeared on its front page the day before. In nearby Pittsburg, Kans., a radio performer named Bill Squire reported that on his way to work he saw a machine about 75 ft. long, hovering 10 ft. above the ground, which looked as if it consisted of two large platters cupped together and ringed with small propellers. Squire said he got out of his car, walked to within 100 ft. of the saucer, saw bluish lights through portholes, and observed several figures moving inside the ship which looked like "human beings...
...reputation was Edwin A. Grozier, who, as Joseph Pulitzer's secretary, had studied under a master. When Grozier bought the Post in 1891, it had less than 3,000 circulation. Grozier sent it climbing by such stunts as opening up the society pages, previously the exclusive preserve of Beacon Hill belles, to rosy-cheeked colleens from the South Boston slums. He sent Joe Knowles, a nature lover, into the Maine woods to prove that a man could live like Adam, without clothing or utensils. Knowles came back with the skin of a bear he claimed to have trapped...
...posters outside the Beacon Hill theatre put a puzzling question to the moviegoer. "Should a girl confide her innermost secrets--dare she?" Intrigued by this and stimulated by suggestive captions on equally suggestive publicity photos, he buys a ticket to Tomorrow Is Too Late. But the moviegoer's illusions about seeing another Silvana Mangano in action fizzle rapidly when he discovers that the film is dedicated "to children and to adults who forget they were once children." Despite these handicaps, Tomorrow Is Too Late is an entertaining movie...