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Originally Posted by dreams
Was that a book? I was thinking of a book published by Random House that featured use of a female name for a storm. Then storms were called by female names until the naming was changed to using male and female names in later years.
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Darn, I knew I would be terrible at this.
Maybe, I didn't ask the question clearly enough?
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Originally Posted by dreams
<snip>What was the name of the book that was an early example of the use of a female name for a storm?
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CLUES:
It was a book published by Random House in 1941.
It featured the use of a female name to name a storm. The winter storm was named "Maria."
This was part of the History of Naming Hurricanes.
It was also a film by Walt Disney presented on network TV (ABC), though "Maria" may have been pronounced as "Mariah".
It inspired Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe to write the song "They Call the Wind Maria" for their 1951 musical "Paint Your Wagon."