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...Smoked salmon on a hard, doughnut-shaped roll...
...Rockport, Me., the late Captain Hanson Gregory, who may or may not have deserved the honor, was about to receive thundering recognition from his community. This week selectmen-prodded by the Doughnut Corp. of America-would unveil a plaque: "This is the birthplace of Capt. Hanson Gregory, who first invented the hole in the doughnut...
Sixteen minutes later, however, three cab drivers were munching catchupted scramblings in blissful ignorance of legislative dicta. The college men had left disconsolately sharing one unsugared doughnut...
Measuring the Eye. In Army & Navy bombers, they made unprecedented clinical studies of a hurricane's doughnutlike anatomy. They took temperature readings and measured wind velocities (up to 150 m.p.h.). They even flew through the tempestuous outer wind-swirl into the doughnut's windless, cloudless central "eye" (TIME, Sept. 22). By radar, they found that the eye was 25 miles in diameter...
...Suddenly we were blinded by a bright glare. We had broken through into the center of the doughnut. It was like coming out of a tunnel. Wind velocity dropped at least one-half in the space of seconds. The plane righted itself and started climbing, but in a minute and a half we crossed the relative calm of the center and smashed into the other side...