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...Manx Chickens...
Having spent my first 18 years in the country nearest the Isle of Man (no, not England), I have long been aware that when a Manx cat is suspended by its tail, its eyes drop out. But what is this about rumpless chickens [Tore, Oct. 6]? Kindly elucidate...
Crouched on California's Muroc Dry Lake in May 1940 for its first flight, the flying wing, like most airplanes on the ground, looked terrible. Tailless as a Manx cat, it squatted on a three-wheeled undercarriage. Its wing tips (span 38 feet) drooped forlornly. Two pusher propellers poked out of its rump like something an insane designer had tacked on as an afterthought. From its blunt beak thrust a long rod carrying the head of its airspeed indicator. It looked like a ruptured, weather-racked duck, too fatigued to tuck in its wings...
...like a mile a minute when his car scraped a Manxman's sedan, jumped a hedge, landed upside down 75 yd. away. Don's mechanic, Francis Taylor, was killed. When Kaye Don hobbled out of the hospital last week, he hobbled straight into an ancient courtroom where Manx Deemsters are sworn to uphold justice "as indifferently as the herring's backbone doth lie in the midst of the fish." The charge was manslaughter...
After deliberating an hour and a half, the jury found Sportsman Don guilty. Don was sentenced to four months' imprisonment in a Manx jail...