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A composer, Howard wrote a number of memorable songs for singers like Peggy Lee, Eartha Kitt and Johnny Mathis. Of his best known song, it "just fell out of me," he once said. "I've always said it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes." That song, which he titled "In Other Words" in 1954, was renamed "Fly Me to the Moon" and became a hit in 1960. In 1999 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Howard died February 21 in New York after a stroke. He was 88. From This is True for 22 February 2004 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: H. E. Logue List Price: $15.95 Amazon Price: $14.36 Editorial Review: Enjoy Eileen's Mania; Empathize in her Depression Readers relish in identifying with Eileen as she masters her inner beast, Bipolar Disorder. Her exciting complex life is a captivating journey. Don't miss it. The information in this novel is so informative that it provides healthcare professionals with educational credit.  By: Alyson Noel List Price: $12.95 Amazon Price: $11.01 Editorial Review: When flight attendant Hailey Lane learns the rest of her trip has been cancelled and she can fly straight home to spend her birthday with her boyfriend Michael, shes thrilled. Theyve been together for three and a half years and shes convinced hes going to propose. But when she walks through the door, the surprise thats waiting for her is not the ring she was expecting. Instead, she finds Michael in a position so compromising her entire future suffers an immediate reroute. Luckily, though, she has shoulders to cry on, unlimited free flight passes, and a job that provides long layovers in exotic destinations where attractive potential mates are just waiting to be discovered.  By: Edward Belbruno List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $15.56 Editorial Review: When a leaf falls on a windy day, it drifts and tumbles, tossed every which way on the breeze. This is chaos in action. In Fly Me to the Moon, Edward Belbruno shows how to harness the same principle for low-fuel space travel--or, as he puts it, "surfing the gravitational field." Belbruno devised one of the most exciting concepts now being used in space flight, that of swinging through the cosmos on the subtle fluctuations of the planets' gravitational pulls. His idea was met with skepticism until 1991, when he used it to get a stray Japanese satellite back on course to the Moon. The successful rescue represented the first application of chaos to space travel and ushered in an emerging new field. Part memoir, part scientific adventure story, Fly Me to the Moon gives a gripping insider's account of that mission and of Belbruno's personal struggles with the science establishment. Along the way, Belbruno introduces readers to recent breathtaking advances in American space exploration. He discusses ways to capture and redirect asteroids; presents new research on the origin of the Moon; weighs in on discoveries like 2003 UB313 (now named Eris), a dwarf planet detected in the far outer reaches of our solar system--and much more. Grounded in Belbruno's own rigorous theoretical research but written for a general audience, Fly Me to the Moon is for anybody who has ever felt moved by the spirit of discovery.  By: Bryan Ethier List Price: $23.95 Amazon Price: $23.95 FLY ME to the MOON: An article from: Oil & Gas Investor By: Taryn Maxwell List Price: $10.00 Amazon Price: $10.00 Editorial Review: It is mid-afternoon, and Bob Cavnar is seated in his ninth floor Houston office, excitedly scrolling through digital photos of his airplanes on his flat-screen computer monitor. The president and CEO of Milagro Exploration is displaying a different kind of enthusiasm from that which he usually displays as he talks of wells and drillbits and equity deals. The biggest challenge to flying as a hobby is the enormous amount of time it takes to stay "current," or proficient enough to be safe and pass FAA scrutiny. Today, as Cavnar finds that he has become a pilot who is a stickler for safety and following rules and regulations, he knows he has just living out the example set by his father. This digital document is an article from Oil & Gas Investor, most recently published by ProQuest Information and Learning on June 30, 2006. The length of the article is 955 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: FLY ME to the MOON Author: Taryn Maxwell Publication: Oil & Gas Investor (Feature) Date: June 30, 2006 Publisher: ProQuest Information and Learning Volume: 26 Issue: 6 Page: LS14 Distributed by ProQuest Information and Learning |
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