Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Miss U.S.A. throne last year for being a married woman, did her own bouncing: she divorced Air Force Sergeant Gene Ennis. Now a Tropicana Hotel show girl making $200 a week, the leggy brunette got only $25 a month for support of her two children. Another airman, moon-faced Space Man Donald Farrell, 23, of The Bronx, turned out to have an ex-bride and a 4½-year-old daughter. To Farrell, his feet barely steady after an imaginative seven-day excursion through space (in a grounded chamber in Texas), the revelation meant that his penpal romance...
...military moon base from which a handful of earthlings dominate their native planet-or perhaps watch with despair its radioactive devastation by nuclear war-is a familiar staple of science fiction. But the moon base will not be fiction for long, says Air Force Lieut. General Donald L. (for Leander) Putt. Last week in Washington he told the House Armed Services Committee how the U.S. Air Force plans to become the U.S. Space Force and eventually occupy the moon...
...concrete floor, but it was the Air Force's closest approximation to the type of cabin in which a man might solo into outer space. Airman Farrell, 23, Manhattan-born son of a Wall Street accountant, was to make a seven-day simulated trip to the moon and back. Though he would not be exposed to three of the major hazards of space flight-acceleration, weightlessness and cosmic rays-the Air Force's space medicinemen wanted to study his reactions, both physical and emotional, to confinement* and fatigue...
...coming was prophesied on the Nile in the ancient days when Egyptians lived there." Margaret Livingston served a formal tea to her cat every day at 4 ("Ask Paul Whiteman. who later married her"), while Nazimova was the only member of the "nobility of Bedlam" to have "a moon parlor and a lunarium." As for Dagmar herself, she was "The Snake Woman" of Hollywood. "I hissed my way through a hundred interviews, [and my] eyes were supposedly so wicked that men lost their souls if they looked directly into them...
...Hobohemia. The story line of The Subterraneans is simple and stark: it concerns a short, manic-depressive love affair between a "big paranoic bum" and occasional writer named Leo Percepied and a near-insane Negro girl named Mardou Fox. Says Kerouac: "I wrote this book in three full-moon nights," and it reads that way. The details of the Leo-Mardou relationship are explicit and near pornographic. But The Subterraneans is not really about sex. It is about an oddball fringe of social misfits who conceive of themselves as "urban Thoreaus" in an existential state of passive resistance to society...