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...submarine was a 14-foot, flat-bottomed contraption, built of yellow pine and looking vaguely like a flatiron mounted on wheels. It had a compressed-air reservoir built of an old soda-fountain tank, and motive power for both its propeller and wheels was supplied by a hand-driven crank. When the redheaded, hot-tempered Simon Lake and his cousin Bart paddled it down the Shrewsbury River in New Jersey in 1894, Bart opened the valves, the submarine sank, a stream of water squirted in through a neglected bolthole and hit him in the back of the neck...
...Lester David O'Dell for writing a series of threatening letters to the President so persuasively phrased as to get past the secretariat which usually weeds such items out of the Presidential mail bag. In court, Magistrate Irving Ben Cooper recognized Correspondent O'Dell as a crank who had written similar letters to Mayor LaGuardia two years...
...furnished by Esquire Cartoonist Paul Webb's "Mountain Boys," a group of grotesque, bearded, barefooted figures. In the current Esquire one of them is discovered by the side of a balky old car, gawking at an aged woman who is hanging from a nearby tree with a crank in her hand. Caption: "C'mon down an' finish crankin' 'er, Gran'maw-Shucks-I'll be late fer school...
...Engineers Corps, who came down here to build the Nicaraguan Canal, but got married instead, sent me a year's subscription to TIME, as a Christmas present. I thought it about the best news periodical I had ever seen, but after reading some of the crank letters you print I think I should engage some of the writers to show you how to run your magazine. The only complaint I have is misleading advertising...
Just as the Times foretold so it occurred last week. What the Times did not foresee was that just as King Edward at the head of his troops passed down Constitution Hill, a crank with a pistol threatened to end His Majesty's personal liberty...