They Call The Wind Grace

[George Stewart’s] 1941 novel Storm, featuring as its protagonist a Pacific storm called "Maria," prompted the National Weather Service to use personal names to designate storms and inspired Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe to write the song "They Call the Wind Maria" for their 1951 musical Paint Your Wagon.    Source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Stewart

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