Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About your cover story on Playwright Jean Kerr: let the Russians go to the moon. Me ? I want to go where the Kerrs...
...Moon Maps & Russian. "We started when they were still babies," recalls Mrs. Trifan. "They each knew the alphabet by their second birthday-it was sort of a birthday present." At three, each of the children could read. At six, each had passed third-grade subjects. Richard, 7, is now in Calvert's fifth grade, Daniel, 9, is in the seventh, and Marioara, 11, completed the eighth last June. This puts them three grades ahead of their ages...
...family lives on Trifan's $9,000 a year in a modest, one-story house filled with educational devices from moon maps, Russian grammars and model dinosaur skeletons to two pianos, including one in a backyard practice cabin. Music is the Trifan passion. Pianist Marioara commutes three times weekly to Philadelphia's noted Curtis Institute, where she is the youngest student. The children practice for three hours in the morning, do school-work until 4 in the afternoon, then get one hour of play...
...Nobel Laureate Harold Clayton Urey* proposed a bold new theory that accounts for the formation of the universe and suggests that the moon may be at least 100 million years older than the earth. In the beginning, said Urey. the explosion of a supernova some 5 billion years ago splattered the space around it with cooling cosmic dust. As particles of matter caromed into each other and stuck, moon-sized bodies were formed. These, too, collided with each other and grew into planets. Somehow, the clump of material that men now know as the moon escaped collision and floated free...
Mary, Mary. Broadway's brightest, wittiest play since The Moon Is Blue is a direct reflection of its author, Jean Kerr...