Good morning, Whitewater.
Wednesday will bring a fifty-percent chance of afternoon snow, on a day with a high of fifteen degrees. Sunrise is 6:35 and sunset 5:39, for 11h 04m 04s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 48% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Tech Park Board meets today at 8 AM, and the Community Development Authority at 5 PM.
On this day in 1949, actor Robert Mitchum gets out of jail:
Actor Robert Mitchum is released from a Los Angeles County prison farm after spending the final week of his two-month sentence for marijuana possession there.
In the fall of 1948, Mitchum, the star of classics such as Cape Fear and Night of the Hunter, was smoking a joint at a small party in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles when detectives burst in and arrested him. Mitchum reportedly said at the time, “Well, this is the bitter end of everything—my career, my marriage, everything.” In fact, it wasn’t really that bad. Mitchum was separated from his wife Dorothy at the time, but the two reconciled when she returned to support him through the scandal. And the public didn’t mind much either; Rachel and the Stranger, the first movie released after his troubles, was a box-office hit.
There is some reason to believe that Mitchum’s arrest was less than fair and designed to bring publicity to the Los Angeles Police Department’s anti-drug efforts. Although high-priced studio lawyers questioned irregularities in the case, it was later agreed that Mitchum would accept 60 days in jail and several years’ probation.
Mitchum died in July 1997.
Earlier this week, Alaska became the third state (and the first red one) to legalize marijuana for personal consumption.
Here’s Puzzability‘s Wednesday game:
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This Week’s Game — February 23-27
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Singled Out
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There are hits missing this week. For each day, fill in the two-word title of a #1 hit song so that a familiar phrase or compound word is formed by the first word in the clue followed by the first word in the song title, and likewise a phrase or word is formed by the second word in the song title followed by the second word in the clue.
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Example:
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GILA ____ ____ NOTE
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Answer:
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“Monster Mash”
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What to Submit:
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Submit the song title (as “Monster Mash” in the example) for your answer.
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Wednesday, February 25
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