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...desperately hard-up writer named Edgar Allan Poe submitted a sensational story to the New York Sun. A coal-gas balloon "employing the principle of the Archimedean screw," he said, had crossed the Atlantic Ocean in three days. The gullible Sun splashed this fantasy over its front page; two days later it ruefully apologized...
There are several skid row citizens around every Sunday to start the all rolling. Feeney has names for all of them: "Wallpaper Willie," Mustachioed Louie," "Frothing Joe," "Foamin' Roman," "Muggsy Malone," and "Benny Balloon." His group of devotees stand around him in a circle. The crowd, and the sight of this small, black-frocked, white-haired man standing above it, attracts others, and soon, there is a sizeable mob of people listening intently, whether they agree or not. Feeney is there every week, no matter the weather, and so is the crowd...
Kennan revealed that a six-foot weather balloon advertising the play collapsed last night. The balloon was flying, over the cat-walk of the Pl Eta clubhouse, where the show is being given...
H.T.G. officials suspected foul play in the collapse of the balloon, which was in perfect condition when checked at 4 p.m. yesterday, but had been deflated three hours later. The ladder leading up to the cat-walk was also broken...
Most awesome of Hart's sporting accomplishments to many observers was his triumph last year in the Cambridge-to-Wellesley bike race, an event which he had also won the year before. Last spring, in the balloon tire class, he turned in a time which was only thirteen seconds slower than the racing-bike winner...