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...Backed by the Army Air Corps and the National Geographic Society, the stratonauts planned not only to break the world's official altitude record (61,237 ft.) but to amass scientific data. Cost of the expedition was reported to be $1,000,000. In Moonlight Valley, a large natural amphitheatre in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Explorer's crew had waited weeks for favorable weather. To inflate the envelope with 210,000 cu. ft. of hydrogen had taken nine hours. Perched on the surrounding cliffs, 35,000 spectators had watched all night while a ground crew...
...When accepted, he felt obliged to offer his resignation from the Cabinet. It was declined. In March his engagement was announced. On May 7, 1914 the Cabinet tendered him a luncheon at which he declared that his feelings were like those of the mountaineer who went out into the moonlight and falling on his knees, cried: "Oh, Lawd, I ain't got nuthin' again' nobody, no mo'." The Senate sent a diamond bracelet and the House a silver service as wedding presents and that evening before 100 guests in the Blue Room of the White House...
...establishing this sense of the timelessness of beginnings, Author Mann starts his story of Joseph in the middle of things. Yaakow ben Yitzchak (Jacob) and his tribe are encamped near the town of Hebron. Jacob, worried by the absence of his favorite son. Joseph, finds him sitting in the moonlight by the side of a well. Their conversation rouses Jacob's ready memories, which the tale follows back to their beginning: his cheating his elder brother Esau out of their father Isaac's blessing; his flight from Esau's wrath to Laban's far-off farmstead...
That your thoughts are pure as moonlight...
...Gray Bonnet" (1909) was written by Percy Wenrich whose father was postmaster in Joplin, Mo. Wenrich and his lyricist, the late Stanley Murphy, intended their song to be "Put On Your Old Sunbonnet," sang it for Publisher Jerome Remick who got the words twisted. Wenrich wrote other songs: "Moonlight Bay," "When You Wore A Tulip," "Where Do We Go From Here?" Today, revenue from the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers where he has a permanent Class A rating pays for Wenrich's rent, lunches, his bar bill at the Lamb's Club...