Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nevertheless, the film (owing something to the superior mystery novel by Max Simon Ehrlich on which it is based) at times conveys amusingly how life looks through the other end of the television tube. And in Actor Forsythe, now playing in the Broadway hit, The Teahouse of the August Moon, it has a fine, melancholy hero...
...Moon Is Blue. Disapproved by the Legion of Decency and the U.S. Navy, but a nice little comedy all the same (TIME, July...
...Girl Can Tell (by F. Hugh Herbert) finds the author of Kiss and Tell and The Moon Is Blue at the same old stand, but with greatly lowered standing. In A Girl Can Tell, Playwright Herbert, still concerned with discreetly amorous young girls, is still dallying with dalliance, still writing under the sign of Virgo in the spirit of Capricorn. But this time his hand is tired, and his touch seems coarse...
Since most astronomers agree that the earth and the moon became partners when the solar system was formed, the age of the earth-moon combination is also the age of the solar system. Because of the drag of the tides, the moon is slowly moving away from the earth. The best estimate, says Ter Haar, is that it took the moon two to four billion years to reach its present distance. This gives the age of the earth-moon partnership, and therefore the age of the solar system: two to four billion years...
...Moon Is Blue (United Artists...