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While readying its list of female names for the upcoming hurricane season, Miami Weather Bureaucrats nominated Anna for the first storm, said that succeeding twisters would be called Betsy, Carla, Debbie, Esther, Frances, Gerda, Hattie, Inga, Jenny, Kara, Laurie, Martha, Netty, Orva, Peggy, Rhoda, Sadie, Tanya, Virgy and Wenda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 16, 1961 | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

Last week, after consulting several handbooks (including What Shall We Name the Baby?), Hogan and helpers put out the new 1955 list of hurricane names: Alice, Brenda, Connie. Diane. Edith. Flora, Gladys, Hilda, lone, Janet, Katie, Linda, Martha, Nelly, Orva, Peggy, Queena. Rosa, Stella, Trudy, Ursa, Verna, Wilma, Xenia, Yvonne and Zelda. Only holdover: Alice, used because an out-of-season hurricane arrived before its name was chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Xenia, Yvonne & Zelda | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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