Word: scorpio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twice-married Mary Lou was having no trouble adding more diamonds to her crown as a queen of jazz. In her spare time, she was still turning out such imaginative first-class concert arrangements as her Georgia Brown, Blue Skies and Shorty Boo for Duke Ellington (her latest: Scorpio and Lonely Moments). She had already conquered Carnegie Hall (in 1946), has since been on even more consecrated ground with concerts at Yale and Cornell...
...brilliant red star Antares (450 times the diameter of the sun) in the constellation of Scorpio is a "double" star. Antares has a comparatively faint blue "companion" which is so close that it is almost impossible to photograph by itself. Irregularities in the earth's atmosphere make the images of the two stars dance around, forming "tremor discs" of light which overlap on the photographic plate during a long exposure...
...There is no correlative statistical basis for astrology. Example: Most astrologers agree that a person born under Libra should have musical talent. A Stanford psychologist studied the birthdates of 1,498 musicians, found fewer born under Libra than under any sign except Scorpio...
...Scorpio, purple-shaded portrait of Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr (Ecstasy, Algiers), complete with a horsewhip, a rose and tinted toenails, by Comedian Reginald Gardiner, painted in the days when Artist Gardiner was her most devoted escort...