Word: coralled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...penchant for collecting. Her memory, even after more than half a century, still warmly cradled the color and sound of the faraway Pacific islands that she visited as a young missionary for the Congregational Church. Her collections-sea shells, bits of pressed vegetation, samples of earth and coral-cluttered her antebellum house on Oberlin's East College Street, where she lived quietly the last 50 years...
...islands aboard the sailing vessel Morning Star. Out of the faded books and charts leaped such facts as these: how the tides swept in and the heights of shoreline cliffs, how deep the channels were and how wide the sandy beaches, where in the crystal water lay hidden coral reefs and where lay clear passage at low tide. The Navy borrowed books, charts, fauna and sand. Alice Little settled back to her quiet spinster existence...
...cedars along Quemoy's roadways bent before the first buffeting gusts of autumn. In the fields, the silver, feathery heads of mao-tsao, a grain used for fuel and fodder, swayed like the plumes of medieval knights. At night the moon was almost full, and the pearl and coral-colored bluffs loomed like phantoms above the beaches, pounded by a foamy sea. In other times it was the loveliest of seasons, it was the loveliest of sights. But this year autumn on Quemoy was a nightmare...
Died. Annie Reid Knox, 82, widow of Publisher (Chicago Daily News) and F.D.R.'s wartime Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox; in Coral Gables...
Absorbing the Cost. Coral executives actually heard Hula Hoop 24 hours before Roulette did, but they lost valuable time by assigning it at first to a new female vocal group. Then the word got around that Roulette was recording Hula with Songstress Georgia Gibbs, and Coral executives decided that "we would have to come up with a big name, too." Their choice: Songstress Teresa Brewer. In the mad scramble that followed, Georgia beat Teresa into the record shops by one day, was further aided by the fact that she was able to sing the song on The Ed Sullivan Show...