Word: terns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of the tern colony called Wideawake Fair on Ascension Island (TIME, Jan. 3), the heading "Boobies on the Runway" is misleading. One of my naturalist colleagues who has recently returned from Ascension reports that he never saw a booby on the airfield or anywhere else in the interior of the island, although many of them live around the shores...
...Flora. The most exotic feature of the islands is the bird life. Americans get a laugh out of the gony bird for a while. Then he is a plain nuisance. Frigate birds are scoundrels who make a living by snatching food out of other birds' beaks. The sooty tern lays its eggs on the ends of broken limbs of the breadfruit tree. On one island there is a lone rooster. His morning crowing to high heaven wakes up the whole island-that is how big this atoll is. He makes the farm boys homesick...
Stocky, pear-shaped Ellis Gibbs Arnall got elected to the Georgia legislature just 13 years after he had worked as a page boy. At his first session, whizbang Arnall was named speaker pro tern...
...13th day the men caught a "tern-like bird that tasted like dried chicken." But the confinement and lack of sleep were beginning to tell. With so little food, peristalsis had stopped. To keep all hands busy Dixon tied shoes to the men's wrists and made them paddle...
Only off-key note in the film is the background music. Written by left-wing Hanns Eisler, composer of the battle song Komin-tern, it is not Mexican, but an ultrasophisticated mixture of Hindemith, Schönberg and Prokofieff. This was not the way Steinbeck had planned it. His first choice for composer was Mexico's famed Silvestre Revueltas, a man of Balzacian corpulence, Bohemian courses, and a gift for orchestration. At the climax of their negotiations the hard-drinking Revueltas-to Steinbeck's and Mexico's dismay -died at the unripe age of 40 years...