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...minutes from Berlin's dead center is a slice of Long Island or California civilization-the American colony. This week the local baseball season got into full swing; Tempelhof airbase invited all American girls to the "Stateside Stomp" in the Skyrider Ballroom; everything from keel boats to canoes and kayaks is skimming the Wannsee's smooth, sunny waters. This is little America, APO 742-A, including bingo, jukeboxes, dog shows, fashion shows and horse shows...
...qualify for a bounty, a fisherman or fisherwoman must fish three months a year, catch 2,500 Ibs. of deep-sea fish and use a boat with at least a twelve-foot keel. The money is interest on Canada's share of the $5,500,000 the U.S. paid after the 1871 Treaty of Washington for rights to fish in British waters...
Most of Thomas Alva Edison's diary is like this day's extract-an approach to all & sundry on a one-track even keel. Like his neat, snug handwriting, which seems exactly to reflect him, Edison's way of life indicates no ups & downs-only a remorseless, meticulous line of continuity. Editor Runes has printed only a handful of Edison's daily records (along with many of his articles and public statements), but they are enough to show what a strange assortment of things swam in the sea of cool equanimity that was Edison...
...with a striped behind."* There was also talk about the strange noises Coaltown used to make, like a furnace roaring, when he breezed or galloped. Some said he was wind-broken. Actually, the weird, snoring noises were a hangover from a throat ailment that once caused him to keel over during a workout, and that kept him from racing as a two-year-old. Now, the noises were gone. Last winter at Hialeah Park, when he ran his first race, Coaltown won with ridiculous ease. Next time out, Coaltown equaled Hialeah Park's six-furlong track record with...
...Kitty Hawk's mosquitoes and sandfleas and flew their gliders off a high dune called Kill Devil Hill. They sewed the sateen for the wings on a neighbor's sewing machine. They figured out a way to warp the wings to keep the plane on an even keel (the principle of present-day ailerons). They built the first wind tunnel out of an old starch box, tried hundreds of different wing shapes, found that practically all published data on flying were useless...