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...legend goes that Fisherman's Lake was created centuries ago when doves, tired by a long flight, sank down at evening and started to scratch the moist soil. They found water, and at last the lake appeared. But when the slave traders came, the doves left and the place was pervaded by evil. Yet a prophecy promised that when the doves returned, so would the good times. One day in 1941 a huge silvery Pan Am seaplane came circling over the water. The oldest chief squinted and declared: "The doves have come...
...some mysterious property in the air affects people's health. Many a European surgeon avoids operations on days when the south wind blows (some think hemorrhages and serious clots are more common on those days). In Alpine sanatoriums. tuberculosis patients are said to get worse when a warm, moist wind is blowing. Allergists are sure that hay fever and some other allergic diseases are airborne...
Marchand eloquently explains the change in his color and composition: "I used to paint mostly on the Mediterranean," he says,"which is a world of fire. But now I have discovered the complexity of the sun seen through the trees, the feel of moss, ferns and mush rooms, the moist wonder of a grey wood in the early morning when the cobwebs are cradling the dew, whereas at the sea you can't get away from the horizontal line. And another thing: where there are lakes and streams in the forest the skies are down in the water...
...Many of the brokers chew gum to keep their throats moist. The throat is important here. When you want to buy or sell, you have to be able to attract attention. Another flurry starts. 'Sell one Sep fifteen. . . . Sell five Christmas. . . . Sell July one five, think of wife and kids.' Then suddenly the noise fades out, the waving of fingers stops...
Until last week, the once-bright Seattle Star (circ. 67,000) had spent most of its 48 years flickering as fitfully as a moist match. Started in gold-rush days by the late, lusty E. W. Scripps, it grew up as a crusading, loud-mouthed friend of the people, was once worth around...