Word: simpsons
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Mysterious Floods. A hurricane's worst water damage, says Weather Bureau Hurricane Expert Robert H. Simpson, usually occurs in the storm's right forward quadrant. The wind is strongest there because the speed of the hurricane's forward motion is added to the speed of its counterclockwise rotation. And it is there that the highest bulge of water builds up ahead of the storm. Meteorologists can account for only part of the rise. The storm's drop in barometric pressure causes the sea level to rise somewhat as the eye of the hurricane approaches. The pressure...
Marriage Revealed. Gertrude Augusta ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moran, 37, onetime second-magnitude tennis attraction less famed for her overhead than her under wear; and Frank ("Bing") Simpson, 35, Los Angeles lawyer-yachtsman; she for the third time, he for the first; in Hawaii last month...
...first annual Alfred D. Simpson Lecture, Keppel charged that "This nation has turned over to the judiciary the power of decision on policies of race relations and has established such bodies as the National Science Foundation to take initiative on reforms in education made necessary by scientific developments. . . . Basic educational decisions are being made by lawyers and scientists, not by the school administrators...
Some of the fakers have taken their own places in art history. One Edward Simpson, a 19th century master forger of Stone Age implements, came to be admired among archaeologists as the fabulous "Flint Jack." Two illiterate London mudrakers named Billy and Charley produced and buried thousands of "ancient" metal objects, and such objects are known as "Billys and Charleys" to this day. An ingenious forger named Peter Thompson, actually a carpenter and builder living near Regent's Park in the 1840s, not only forged 17th century "master drawings," but also invented the master. He named the man Captain...
Charles Olsen, who directed the production, chose to accent the melodrama, which is a good idea for most of Miller's plays. But there is no way to dilute the false rhetoric and high mindedness which keep All My Sons from being pure and pleasant melodrama. Bill Simpson's sets were garish and out of keeping with the tone of the play...