Sheldon H. Harris continued that, The Okinawa anti-crop research project may lend some insight to the larger projects 112 sponsored.

Operations continued on the entire 27. 48 mile length until 1984, when a derailment on the bridge spanning the Missisquoi River near Sheldon, Vermont forced the dismantlement of one of three spans.

Other key playwrights from this period ( in addition to continued work by Howells and Fitch ) include Edward Sheldon, Charles Rann Kennedy and one of the most successful women playwrights in American drama, Rachel Crothers, whose interest in women's issues can be seen in such plays as He and She ( 1911 ).

Tiptree / Sheldon was most notable for breaking down the barriers between writing perceived as inherently " male " or " female " — it was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree, Jr. was a woman.

The award is named for Alice B. Sheldon, who wrote under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. By choosing a masculine nom de plume, having her stories accepted under that name and winning awards with them, Sheldon helped demonstrate that the division between male and female science fiction writing was illusory.

Alice Bradley Sheldon had a multiplicity of reasons to write under the pen name of James Tiptree, Jr .: she was a woman writing in the heavily male-dominated genre of science fiction ; she was a bisexual woman who may have wanted to avoid the inherent biases of her readers ; and she was a career intelligence officer, first in the Army Air Corps and then in the early years of the CIA, for whom concealment was a way of life.

Although Loy was never nominated for an Academy Award for any single performance, after an extensive letter writing campaign and years of lobbying by screenwriter and then-Writers Guild of America, west board member Michael Russnow, who enlisted the support of Loy's former screen colleagues and friends such as Roddy McDowall, Sidney Sheldon, Harold Russell and many others, she received a 1991 Academy Honorary Award " for her career achievement ".

" At the age of fourteen, Elmer joined his brothers at the Sheldon furniture factory ( while simultaneously writing short essays on birds that were published in the Muskegon Chronicle ).

" Publishers Weekly called the book an " engaging and absorbing family saga ", while the Los Angeles Times Review of Books commented that Sheldon was " a genius ... at writing potboilers.

When Sidney Sheldon joined the writing team, it was rewritten for Gwen Verdon, who just had two smash hits on Broadway ( Damn Yankees and New Girl in Town ).

She also occasionally wrote under the pseudonym Raccoona Sheldon ( 1974 – 77 ).

The revelation of her gender had less adverse impact on people's opinions of her talent than she had feared ; her final Nebula Award ( for " The Screwfly Solution ", published under her other occasional pseudonym, Raccoona Sheldon ) was awarded in 1977.

Years after " Tiptree " first published science fiction, Sheldon wrote some work under the female pen name " Raccoona Sheldon "; later, the science fiction world discovered that " Tiptree " had been female all along.

In the pages of All-Star Comics # 3, under the direction of editor Sheldon Mayer and with artists including E. E. Hibbard, Fox created the first superhero team, the Justice Society of America.

A man named Sheldon opened a fish saltery there in the 1930s, and the city was incorporated under the name Sheldon Point in 1974.

According to Sheldon Richman, " n the 19th and early 20th centuries, ' socialism ' did not exclusively mean collective or government ownership of the means or production but was an umbrella term for anyone who believed labor was cheated out of its natural product under historical capitalism.

The architects were the prominent San Francisco firm of Wright and Sanders and the project manager was architectural engineer William Wallace Barbour Sheldon, who worked for Hopkins under the Southern Pacific Improvement Company.

It was only due to a stout defence by a platoon of the Devonshire Regiment, the Battalion Headquarters staff of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, and the remnants of a company from the Bedfordshire Regiment under Captain Sheldon Gledstanes that a breakthrough was prevented, although the final six days alone cost the 5th Division over 100 officers and 3, 000 men.

She also appeared in the 2010 Sci-Fi film, Mothman, under direction from Sheldon Wilson.

The operas are The Last of the Just, with a libretto by Gerald Walker, based on the novel by Andre Schwarz-Bart ( 1980 ); That Pig of a Molette ( 1988 ) and A Question of Faith ( 1990 ), both with Sheldon Harnick, which were presented as a double-bill under the title Love in Two Countries at St. Peter's Church Theatre, in New York City, by Musical Theater Works in 1991 ; and a score for the lost music of Thespis, which was first produced in concert in June 2008 by the Blue Hill Troupe in New York City.

In one episode it was revealed that Sheldon actually did hatch but that under his shell was nothing more than another shell.

Vince and Sheldon fall under sniper fire and, using the General's Mercedes-Benz, escape and drive into town.

Some songs such as " Limbo Rock " were credited under the pseudonym of Jon Sheldon.

He published under several pen names, including Magus Incognito, Theodore Sheldon, Theron Q. Dumont, Swami Panchadasi, Yogi Ramacharaka, Swami Bhakta Vishita, and probably other names not identified at present.

However, he could not remember her name and was unable to track her down until a chance meeting with Sheldon Soffer tipped him off that she was working with the Baltimore Opera Company under Rosa Ponselle.

The plans to build the stadium were abandoned in June 2005 when the New York State Assembly under the leadership of Speaker Sheldon Silver refused to provide state subsidies for the project.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against Armstrong, sayingWe therefore conclude that the Senate did not exceed its authority under the origination clause when it proposed the extensive amendments that ultimately became TEFRA. In 1988, libertarian political writer Sheldon Richman described TEFRA as " the largest tax increase in American history.

James Tiptree, Jr. ( August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987 ) was the pen name of American science fiction author Alice Bradley Sheldon, used from 1967 to her death.

When asked for biographical details, Tiptree / Sheldon was forthcoming in everything but gender.

After the death of Mary Hastings Bradley in 1976, " Tiptree " mentioned in a letter that his mother, also a writer, had died in Chicago — details that led inquiring fans to find the obituary, with its reference to Alice Sheldon ; soon all was revealed.

James Tiptree Jr., Alice Hastings Bradley, Alice Davey, Ann Terry, Mrs. Huntington D. Sheldon, are all names that Alice B. Sheldon has used to identify herself.

One well-known name, Tiptree, has assisted Sheldon in conveying feministic themes and beliefs to her audience.

The male persona of Tiptree granted Sheldon the ability to write things that Sheldon herself could not.

When comparing authority, the name James Tiptree Jr. has more authority than Alice B. Sheldon due to the fact that male authors were more respected during Sheldon ’ s era.

Tiptree / Sheldon was an eclectic writer who worked in a variety of styles and subgenres, often combining the technological focus and hard-edged style of " hard " science fiction with the sociological and psychological concerns of " soft " SF, and some of the stylistic experimentation of the New Wave movement.

Award winning science fiction authors Karen Joy Fowler and Pat Murphy created the James Tiptree, Jr. award in honor of Alice B. Sheldon on February 1991.

Sheldon influenced this award through her use of a masculine pseudonym, James Tiptree, Jr., demonstrating that there is no distinction in works of science fiction when written by either gender.

* 2006 The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente and Half Life by Shelley Jackson ; with special recognition for Julie Phillips ' biography of James Tiptree, Jr., James Tiptree, Jr .: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

* " On James Tiptree, Alice Sheldon and bake sales ", by Karen Joy Fowler

* Alice Sheldon, science fiction author better known by her pen name, James Tiptree, Jr.

" The Girl Who Was Plugged In " is a science fiction novella by James Tiptree, Jr., a pen name used by writer Alice Sheldon.

" The Screwfly Solution " is a 1977 science fiction short story by Raccoona Sheldon, a pen name for psychologist Alice Sheldon, who was better known by her other nom de plume, James Tiptree, Jr.

While it's possible that Atkinson could have been a ghost writer or contributor to Sheldon's work, the personal nature of Sheldon's correspondence with Florence Sabin would have been very difficult for Atkinson to fabricate, suggesting that Theodore Sheldon was more than an Atkinson pen name.

Star Songs of an Old Primate is the third short story collection by Alice Sheldon ( under the pen name James Tiptree, Jr .).

Warm Worlds and Otherwise is a short story collection by Alice Sheldon that, under her pen name James Tiptree, Jr., was first published in 1975.

Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home is a short story collection by Alice Sheldon under the pen name of James Tiptree, Jr. that was first published in 1973.