Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some extent a great man can control his autobiographer. With biographers he must trust to luck, and James Thurber has not been lucky. A couple of years ago, an academician named Charles Holmes produced a solemn literary biography called The Clocks of Columbus, in which he discerned, for instance, three levels of language in the 2,500 words of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Now comes New Yorker Writer Burton Bernstein with a drink-by-drink analysis, or bibulography, of the humorist's sometimes agonizing life...
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...into thin air. Heightening the sense of mystery, Berlitz cites reports of strangely spinning compasses and unexplained electrical failures aboard ships and planes crossing the triangle. He also talks of great waterspouts and baffling stretches of "white water" that were noted by navigators who sailed as long ago as Columbus. He provides testimony from a 20th century skipper who says his 160-ft. tug was yanked for a few moments by weird forces, almost as if "somebody wanted us to be in another place from where we were going...
...book is preposterous," says Harvard's venerable historian, Samuel Eliot Morison, who sailed the area himself before writing his Pulitzer-prize-winning biography of Columbus, Admiral of the Ocean Sea. Admiral Morison takes issue particularly with reports in Triangle attributed to Columbus. "It's almost all hooey. Columbus never reported seeing white water in the area. None of the early navigators made any complaints about it. The whole Spanish Main went through it." Says University of Miami Oceanographer Claes Rooth: "If there ever was a pseudo topic, it's the Bermuda triangle." Rooth attributes many...
...momentum grows, other groups like the Catholic Women for the ERA, headquartered in Cincinnati, are stepping up their support. The group is planning a "pray-in" in Columbus and other state capitals. The National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs recently raised $250,000, part of which they are using to hire a Washington-based political consulting firm, Bailey, Deardourff & Eyre; the company will guide the strategy for pro-ERA forces in states where the vote is considered close...