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...perpetual three-ring circus. From the dazzling surface of the sun (well screened by his gadgets), enormous gaseous solar "prominences" leap in graceful arcs at several hundred miles per second, driven by unknown forces (see cut). Little "spicules" (big enough to be seen at least 93 million miles away) jab up and fall back in four minutes. The ghostly corona waxes and wanes...
...Dahl's Boston," wrote Morton in an aside, "is essentially a village, not a city. ... Its physical center is the village green, or Boston Common. It has a bandstand, Symphony Hall; a library, the Athenaeum." Morton could not resist a jab at its press: "Its newspapers are dailies instead of weeklies, but in other respects they are reasonably to be compared with the lesser journals of Berkshire County, rural Indiana, and Long Island...
A.P.H. was never better. His satiric jingles had a near-Gilbertian nip & skip. After his first jab, a hilarious hymn to The Good Old Days ("The women wore a little more and beer was alcoholic"), he quickly took a swipe at Socialism: We love our country but we hate The swollen octopus, the State That fills our stomachs well enough But robs the soul of precious stuff...
...living in a $175-a-month Manhattan apartment. Last week tradesmen were boldly presuming to offer her jobs-the tabloid New York Daily News announced, with a frightful leer, that Reggie Vanderbilt's 40-year-old widow had been asked to peddle phonograph needles at "$50 a jab." And to make it all practically unendurable, her own daughter, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, with a fortune of $4,500,000, refused to give her a penny. Things hadn't been so embarrassing since the time, twelve years ago, when she was loudly called unfit, and lost custody of Gloria...
...with measured daring and high hopes, Halsey turned south (see map) with the greatest naval force ever assembled to jab at the enemy's heart. On the way his massive force was magnified. He was joined by the British Pacific Fleet (operating in strength equivalent to a U.S. task group, with probably four carriers, two or more battleships and a dozen to a score of cruisers and destroyers). Its commander: fair-haired, grey-eyed Vice Admiral Sir Henry Bernard Rawlings...