Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tokyo Bonfire. The great planes took off about sunset. At Tokyo there were few enemy night fighters in the air, and the antiaircraft fire was set for 20,000 to 30,000 feet. This time, the B-29s foxed the Jap gunners and came in between 5,000 and 7,000. Visibility was good; the wind was moderate...
Maker & Breaker. Critic Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle book reviewer, has been a West Coast literary authority for 20 years. Now 50, he was born in New Jersey, studied at Lafayette, was a lieutenant in World War I. He got into advertising in California after the war, was editor of Sunset Magazine for eight years. In 1924 he began a weekly half- hour broadcast on books over San Francisco's station KGO which was steadily popular until he quit...
...writes children's books) and his daughter Marion, 17, in a modern redwood-paneled house. With some neighbors, he organized an armchair strategists' society after Pearl Harbor. Jackson also belongs to a club of mystery-story writers (Erie Stanley Gardner was an editorial colleague on the Sunset). For one club dinner, which 13 members were scheduled to attend, it was decided that a body should be found at the table. The club invited Cinemactress Jane Russell-"probably," says Jackson, "the best body available at that time...
Rainbow Island (Paramount) is a Technicolored mythical kingdom somewhere west of Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, inhabited by Dorothy Lamour and sarong, three shipwrecked seamen (Eddie Bracken, Gil Lamb, Barry Sullivan), and assorted natives. It involves: 1) an aquacade sequence-a ritual of "purification" for Miss Lamour; 2) a comedy act involving Eddie Bracken and a very hungry man-eating flower; 3) some amusingly parodistic Oriental music by Roy Webb and a catchy song, The Boogie, Woogie, Boogie Man; 4) enough general ribbing of sarong and tomtom pictures to make a thin but fairly likable piece of musical ridiculousness...
...asked daughter Katarina, who was acting as watchdog, if it was possible to get Sibelius outside before sunset. He was very willing. He walked in the woods and sat on a bench near a stone wall...