Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum sound was most elaborate. Visitors, ushered in by an attendant, strolled through a labyrinthine gallery designed (by Lee Simonson) like a Coney Island house of mystery. As they paused before each picture, lights flashed on and a concealed sound mechanism honked a short lecture describing its notable points. No money saver, this sound-equipped tour, which ranged from Greek sculpture to Cézanne apples, cost about $14,000 ($10,000 of it a grant from the Carnegie Corp...
...Robinson needed any more incentive than Pearl Harbor, the Japs gave it to him shortly before Christmas. They captured his son, Lieut. James Burnham Robinson, U.S.N.R., a civil engineer, on Wake Island...
...their great Fifth Avenue mansion in Manhattan and at Newport, the Vanderbilts became royal entertainers of royalty (Grand Duke Boris of Russia once exclaimed: "I have never dreamed of such luxury. Is this really America, or have I landed on an enchanted island? ... It is like walking on gold."). New titular head of the Vanderbilt family: thrice-married Journalist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 43 (Farewell to Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue, Palm Beach...
...pretty stenographer crashed a bottle of Pike's Peak snow water against the first of eight freight cars, and the "Good Ship Mountain Maid" rumbled westward-loaded with prefabricated steel for the hulls of naval escort ships. Same day, their keels were laid at California's Mare Island Navy Yard...
Director Edward H. Griffith was apparently so preoccupied with nature that he let his story go to pot. Paramount had given him plenty (Madeleine Carroll & Stirling Hayden) to work with. Beauteous Miss Carroll, once picked by enthusiastic collegians (Columbia) as the most desirable partner for a desert island, is admirably equipped for her tantalizing role. Ex-Seaman Hayden, blond and Apolloesque, is unable to make much...