Word: blanchardisms
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...delivered on Friday afternoon by Blanchard's Liquors of Allston, according to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Consumer Affairs, which conducted the enforcement sweep on Friday...
That is most likely the description Major Marcel used when he returned to the airfield. As Walter Haut, who was then the 509th's press officer, tells it, he was ordered by Colonel William Blanchard, the group commander, to issue a press release. Haut, now 75 (he and his wife have license plates that read MR UFO and MRS UFO), remembers Blanchard's saying, "We have in our possession a flying saucer. This thing crashed north of Roswell, and we've shipped it all to General Ramey, 8th Air Force at Fort Worth...
Because his father had known Colonel Blanchard of the 509th Bomb Command, Jeffrey was able to wangle an invitation to the 1996 reunion of the 509th. There he met pilots stationed at Roswell in 1947, most of whom, he found, had "heard nothing about the supposed crashed-saucer incident until years later, after all the publicity started." After chasing down other sources suggested by 509th pilots, Jeffrey was convinced. "In essence," he says, "the 1947 Roswell case has turned out to be a red herring, diverting time and resources away from research into the real UFO phenomenon...
...could have set Camden Yards inside Yankee Stadium and not even brush a coat of paint. We had power alleys of 457 feet and it was 461 feet to center." --Former Yankee Johnny Blanchard on the Orioles breaking the 1961 Yankees' record of 240 home runs in a season...
...have chosen to end their life rather than face possible public humiliation are former deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster, who shot himself before the Whitewater investigation; John Hemperley, the chief budget officer of the Library of Congress, who came under suspicion for possible financial improprieties; and Ernie Blanchard, the Coast Guard's top press spokesman, who faced a possible court-martial because of sexually offensive jokes he told in a speech. Each victim, of course, had his own psychological makeup and motives. But collectively, they point up the increasing pressure carried by people in the public spotlight, or even...