Word: rachel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest Pine-Thomas epic, Caribbean, is now making 31% more money than average pictures on the market. Those perennial big-grossers, Abbott & Costello, recently released Abbott & Costello Meet Captain Kidd. Last week Hollywood studios had released, were filming or planning more than 20 sea pictures, ranging from documentaries (e.g., Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us) to history (e.-g., Nearer My God to Thee, a story of the Titanic). But most of them were just wet westerns-The Golden Hawk, City Beneath the Sea and Yankee Buccaneer...
Shown courting Rachel Wardle as well as being haled to court in the Widow Bardell's breach-of-promise suit, Mr. Pickwick (George Howe) counts for much more on the stage than he does in the book. This means-and it is the measure of where Dickens suffers most-that Mr. Pickwick counts for much more than his gloriously Dickensian servant, Sam Weller. The trial scene, too, though it is made the climax of the evening, has been shorn of its full comic grandeur, with Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz's appearance in it all too brief. But Stiggins...
...phenomenon of the bestseller lists these days is the plentiful variety of good seagoing fare. Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny rolled in first, more than a year ago;* since then there has been a flood tide of such salty works as Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us and Under the Sea Wind, Nicholas Monsarrat's novel of convoys battling The Cruel Sea, and Commander Edward L. Beach's Submarine! The latest sample of the true brine is Jan de Hartog's The Distant Shore, a Literary Guild selection for September...
...Rachel Louise Carson, author of The Sea Around Us ............D.Sc...
Officers of the Radcliffe Yearbook for next year have been chosen, Rachel Mellinger '52, outgoing editor announced yesterday. They include Holly Walker '53, Editor-in-Chief: Betty Jones '53, Managing Editor; and Jean Ross '54, Business Manager...