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To the sailplane enthusiast, the best things in life are a cramped cockpit, a long slender wing, a stout updraft, and unending miles of sky. Given these things, plus ice to suck and fruit to munch, he will soar hawklike for hours on invisible fountains of air, wrapped in a...
Last year Duskin launched Emerson, named for Ralph Waldo, by simply renting a gabled Victorian mansion in Pacific Grove, a dry town founded by Methodists that seems at times as whimsical in its way as Emerson. For example, the municipal code forbids "any person to molest or interfere with the...
Other gondoliers installed outboard motors in their craft and set off at high speed down the waterways. The absurd anachronisms, trumpeting through the muddy canals, finally stirred action as well as municipal nostalgia: Venice authorities agreed to enforce restrictions on motorboats. Victorious, the gondoliers threw out the motors, grabbed their...
In the little railroad town of Newton, Kans. (pop. 15,000), as in countless other crossroads communities of rural America before the war, the biggest night of the week used to be the night of the weekly band concert. Stores stayed open, and farmers finished their chores early to drive...
Rarely in his cunning career had The Saint been so brazenly flouted. At the very moment that the goateed detective of the U.S. comic strips was trying to solve a wave of Riviera art heists, a band of thieves last week made off with the biggest haul of masterpieces in...