Word: moons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Result: Vineyarders got a month's practice at casting into the surf, and Cuttyhunkers got all the big fish. The prizewinner, a fat, 47-lb. black-striper, was landed by New York Salesman Gordon Pittman in a Cuttyhunk boat, at 9:30 one night with the moon shining on the Vineyard's clay cliffs 200 yards away. It gave Cuttyhunkers, who claim that their 636-acre isle is the scene of The Tempest,* another honor to talk about...
...Over the Moon. That cotton broke the day after President Truman pulled the plug on controls (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was purely coincidental. But it was not so with other commodities. Meat repeated the same didoes as of last July...
...Angeles, thousands lined Westwood Boulevard while batteries of searchlights and bursting skyrockets poked at a full moon. Into the fan-shaped outdoor theater of the University of California at Los Angeles came a parade of 60 floats, half a dozen of them on the theme of a U.C.L.A. bruin making hamburger out of a Stanford Indian...
...planning any voyage, the space navigator would have to allow for a host of "perturbations." Distant objects such as Neptune or comparatively small objects such as the moon might pull the ship off its course. A round-trip voyage would be ticklish. The ship would have to circle the objective planet and come back just in time to meet the earth. A miss would mean a plunge toward...
...Completed three other plays: A Moon for the Misbegotten (which will be produced in December), A Touch of the Poet (which will be produced next year), Long Day's Journey into Night, which, for reasons unspecified, cannot be produced until 25 years after the author's death...