Word: gulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best-informed people on recent developments in dramatic activity here is Stephen A. Aaron '57, who has directed such successes as last year's The Sea Gull and Threepenny Opera and this season's Death of a Salesman. Aaron believes that the unexpected success of last year's Threepenny Opera, given by the Lowell House Opera Society, was the turning point--the signal which opened the way for the present burst of activity...
...Logan Airport on day last June, a Lockheed F-94B jet fighter blew apart during takeoff. Flight mechanics were baffled until, in the engine wreckage, they found the charred carcass of a seagull. Sucked into the left air scoop as the fighter rose from the runway, the gull's body broke a fuel line, causing an excess amount of gasoline to spurt into the engine...
Society & the Sea Gull...
Hortense Ford arrived at a Ventura (Calif.) reform school when she was 19; her illegitimate daughter Barbara made it when she was 14. After two years in the reformatory, Barbara married, became a "sea gull," i.e., a fleet follower in San Diego. She was convicted of perjury, prostitution, lewd conduct, vagrancy; she had four husbands, three sons. In 1953 she was arrested in a room with Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo, who were suspects in six murder cases. Barbara had a narcotic user's scars on her arms and a new charge on her record: murder. A witness testified...
...above-average I.Q. of 114, began listening' to classical music, read Socrates and was quoted: "I've always been a pushover for poetry-Oscar Wilde. Walt Whitman and some of Robert Bridges. Verse seems to say something to me that nothing else can." When the "sea gull" was arrested, she had a mask of caked make-up and a bottle-blond hairdo, but as she was moved to the death house at San Quentin 26 months later, she had neat brown hair, a scrubbed face, wore a tasteful beige suit and looked like a respectable suburban housewife...