Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tuesday evening--Moonlight cruise aboard the S.S. Boston Belle for seniors, their dates, their parents, their friends. Liquor, beer, and dancing will be available on board. Tickets on sale. Bus transportation from Harvard Square to the Belle's pier at Rose Wharf will be available at extra cost...
...genius. Her own severest critic, she insisted that when a story "really comes off... there mustn't be one single word out of place or one word that could be taken out." She took her characters just as hard: "I've stood for hours on the Auckland Wharf. I've been out in the stream waiting to be berthed-I've been a seagull hovering at the stern and a hotel porter whistling through his teeth." In a handful of stories, notably Bliss, Prelude and The Garden-Party, she came near passing her only test: perfection...
Muddy Pearl. Junks and sloops were anchored offshore. A Japanese trawler arrived from U.S.-occupied Okinawa, carrying oil. Macao's Wharf No. 31, an oil pumping dock, was busy day & night. British, Danish and Panamanian freighters, sometimes pausing to lighten their load at Macao, steamed upstream to Whampoa, the port of Canton, through a muddy Pearl River channel which the busy Red Chinese recently deepened. Freighters on the Pearl last week were laden with steel rails, zinc plate, asphalt, Indonesian rubber, Pakistan cotton, American trucks, steel piping, tubing. To China's Reds, Macao and Whampoa are not ideal...
Eight times Seattle pulled out all the stops to welcome home a boatload of "rotating" G.I.s returning from Korea. The standard welcome program: brass bands, free theater tickets, ice cream, candy, a performance on the wharf by bathing beauties, swivel-hipped hula girls, and prancing cancan dancers. The boys thought it was great stuff, but some of Seattle's moms didn't. They wrote letters to the papers, buttonholed and berated officials to complain about the show the girls put on at dockside...
...Provincetown Players gained renown in the theatre world by introducing Eugene O'Neil's earlier plays such as the "Hairy Ape" and "Anna Christle." Their Playhouse was built on a wharf and the sound of the water splashing on the floor below the seat created an excellent atmosphere for O'Neil's drama of the sea. The Players of that era are gone, but their Playhouse remains with a group of young talented actors and actresses. This weekend at the Playhouse Arthur Miller's modern adaptation of Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" is billed...