Word: marse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On July 2, 1954, Mars will come closer to the earth (40 million miles) than it has in 15 years. Astronomers look forward to this event with enthusiasm, and are already planning their summer's campaign. This month the "Mars Committee," representing leading U.S. observatories and universities, will meet...
The science-fiction writers, of course, have long since peopled Mars with subtle civilizations, beautiful women with golden eyes, and half-invisible ships sailing on red-sand seas. Some writers, bored with Mars, have gone on to other planets or even to distant galaxies billions of light-years away, where...
To such imaginative pioneers Mars is not very interesting, but astronomers feel differently. Except for the unrewarding Moon, Mars is the only object in the sky whose surface can be studied. Mercury is too close to the sun, Pluto is too far from the' earth, and the other planets...
It is incredible that a show--and an amateur one to boot--could maintain so high a level of music and lyrics as I saw last night. And yet Eiffel Trifle goes from one high point to the next with the most minor of sags. Only an occasional bit of...
Maureen O'Hara's performance is generally creditable, except for an over-long but traditional tear jerker sequence in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary. Miss O'Hara mars her efforts by relying on the same facial expressions she used when her lover left her in a previous...