Word: poe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desperately hard-up writer named Edgar Allan Poe submitted a sensational story to the New York Sun. A coal-gas balloon "employing the principle of the Archimedean screw," he said, had crossed the Atlantic Ocean in three days. The gullible Sun splashed this fantasy over its front page; two days later it ruefully apologized...
...Poe hoax-in retrospect, guilty only of being 75 years premature*-leads off this easygoing anthology of flying life and lore. Editor Jensen, a World War II fighter pilot, has rummaged high & low for a collection which should leave flying buffs cooing happily and give even the uninitiated an occasional kick...
Died. Algernon Blackwood, 82, leading British practitioner of horror fiction (Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural -TIME, Feb. 12; The Doll and One Other) in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe; after long illness; in London...
...Seconds pulses with the same eerie beat as Poe's Tell-Tale Heart. Its hero is a brilliant young British scholar who has pushed himself into a shaky state of nerves, and taken ship for an American teaching post. At first, John Divine relaxes. During a session of shuffleboard in a heavy sea, Divine's eye roves toward the scuppers and the slit of open space under the lifeboats. In that instant, he sees "a billowing of pink goods" slither over the side, and for "half an awful wink that pinkness seemed ... to have folds like legs...
...last week Princeton grads were earnestly stacking Kazmaier up against Old Nassau's football immortals-Garry LeVan, Jake Slagle, San White, Hector Cowan and Edgar Allan Poe, quarterback on the '89 team.- Undergraduates, howling gleefully in the stands, were comparing Kazmaier to players they had never seen-Tommy Harmon, Red Grange, Chris Cagle. On the record, Kaz ranks with the best of today's amateurs: Tennessee's Hank Lauricella, Illinois' Johnny Karras, Southern California's Frank Gifford. And on the record, for the second year in a row, he is an inevitable choice...