Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beacon Lights. Two hours before midnight on Oct. 11, Columbus saw from the poop of his Santa Maria a far-off light waxing & waning in the dark. Searching for an explanation, Berrill points out that the light could not have come from San Salvador. That island was too far off (about 50 miles) when Columbus sang out. Nor could it have come from a native canoe. Berrill thinks it came from a colony of 1-2 in. sea worms which live among the rocky reefs of the Bahamas and shed their eggs near the sea's surface with...
...Phantom of the Opera" is at the Beacon Hill too, and it is hopelessly outclassed. It is an occasionally (if unintentionally) funny movie, and there is a nifty scene in which Claude Rains drops a chandelier on the enthusiastic audience at the Paris Opera. This stops the show...
...Dewey and Joe Hanley trooped arm in arm through a clutter of cheering delegates, falling confetti and exploding balloons. The Governor himself nominated Joe Hanley for Senator; Hanley reciprocated by nominating Tom Dewey, "a beacon light on a stormy shore-steady, clear, unwavering...
...England looked rosy as his view of U.S. art was dim. He had filled the Charles River with a champagne-fizz of sailboats and bright ripples, turned the boxy Suffolk County courthouse into a castle of air, given Boston Harbor's fishing fleet a carnival atmosphere, set Beacon Hill on its ear and made the Georgian brick halls of Harvard dance (see cut). All in all, his Boston pictures were Parisian as ever...
...heary Beacon Hill dame surveyed Boston's historic Common Saturday evening. To a little girl who had just spilt a plate of beans on the historic Mall, she snapped, "You should be ashamed of yourself for making such a mess. Clean it right up." Apparently the spectacle of ten thousand people eating five tons of beans rubbled her sensitively...