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...fire-fated German dirigible Hindenburg was Diesel-powered. . . . But in the U. S. few know about the man whose name goes on the engines. Indeed, the word is often written lowercase" (TIME, Dec. 9). Watt are you talking about? Ampère would feel complimented. Is it not well-established English orthography to lower-case such pioneers? Rudolf Diesel devised, in fact, such a unique power plant that it seems almost redundant nowadays to append to diesel, fully self-explanatory, the generic term engine...
...after breakfast, Leica in hand, when Furman Richard Jaeckel fell from a window overhead, landed on a canopy. Max Haas got that one too. He has twice won Leica awards for his pictures-once (in 1936) for a shot of German Fighter Max Schmeling looking out of the dirigible Hindenburg, once (in 1938) for a candid shot of a woman spectator's rump at a Forest Hills tennis match...
...were insidious and smart. Thanks to their magazine, The Voice of the Worker, the average Quiteno believed of the "damned Yanquis" that: "One day they will come over, hundreds of them, and kill us all with them, with these machines, with bombs that come down." There were busses named Hindenburg and Adolfo Hitler. And out in the jungle, headhunters no longer brewed the poison for their darts; they got it through white traders, most probably from a German chemical firm...
Today everybody knows about Diesel engines. They are everywhere-on streamlined trains, long-distance trucks, planes, ships, submarines. The fire-fated German dirigible Hindenburg was Diesel-powered; so was the big snow cruiser that Admiral Byrd shipped to Antarctica. But in the U. S. few know about the man whose name goes on the engines. Indeed, the word is often written lowercase. In the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Rudolf Diesel's biography gets just six lines...
Prince Saionji's life span was staggering. This was a man who was intimate not only with Balfour, Clemenceau, Hindenburg, Wilson, but who wrestled in the flesh with the Emperor Meiji when the latter was a boy, heard Franz Liszt play his own music, talked politics with Prince Bismarck, had audiences with Queen Victoria and Ulysses S. Grant. As a student in Paris he saw the Commune of 1871 and learned liberalism in its laboratory. His public services were those which would have made five men great: Minister to Vienna and Berlin, president of the Privy Council, vice president...