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Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 72, called a press conference to tell the world that even though he had not been asked to fill the vacant post of U.S. Ambassador to Spain, he was not going to take the job because the ten-month period remaining until the presidential election was too short "to enable me to accomplish anything enduring." After November, though, if anybody cares, "I speak tourist Spanish with a Mexican accent, but I'm taking lessons...
...city has to offer, they're mostly interested in girls. Particularly Miss Turnstyles, a subway poster girl with whom Gabey instantly falls in love, and who becomes the object of their day-long scavenger hunt. But don't kid yourself. The three aren't just bellbottomed versions of Cornelius Hackel and Barnaby Tucker determined not to "come home until we've kissed a girl." The three have no illusions of securing a happy ending, all they ask are just a few carefree hours. For then it's back to the ship (and perhaps to war and, if lucky, to home...
...Cornelius Ryan, author of The Last Battle, said in a 1966 interview that a German general "told me he once had a secret meeting with Hitler, with Bormann the only other man present. Hitler gave orders about a change in command on the Eastern Front. Within two hours the Russian radio broadcast the names of the generals who would be replaced, who would take over, and specific details on new strategy...
Kenneth Piper last April became the first man to fly from Twickenham Bridge into the Thames. It was not much of a flight, actually-about 40 feet, straight down-but the fact that Piper was borne by homemade wings gave it an added dimension of pathos. Walter Cornelius (the "Birdman of Peterborough") can identify only too well with Piper's plunge; in December he zoomed from a supermarket roof straight into the River Nene, because, as he later complained, "the elastic broke on my wings...
Both Piper and Cornelius belong to a flock of Britons fascinated by the dream of man-powered flight and undeterred by a fearsome failure rate that goes back to Icarus. At Selsey Bill, Sussex, this month, twelve birdmen gathered to contend for a $2,400 prize offered by the local Royal Air Force Association to the first man to fly 50 yards under his own power. Some 6,000 turned up to watch contestants take off from a 25-ft.-high platform at the end of a lifeboat jetty. No one was injured, but the splashdowns rivaled...