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...CHILD CALLED NOAH byJOSHGREENFELD 191 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
BRENDAN GILL describes Porter's life and times in the introduction to George Kimball's anthology Cole (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston: more money than you'd care to think about). Gill gives us the old, familiar story: the debonair roue, writing At Long Last Love between swoons into unconsciousness while lying pinned under his horse with both legs broken, tiring the second half of his life in agony after the accident. The midwestern kid who made good; the character like Auntie Mame or his own Katie who came east and set the town on its ear, the country...
...concept was developed by Physicist John S. Rinehart of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who has been comparing the past activities of Old Faithful and two other famous geysers-Yellowstone's Riverside and Old Faithful in Calistoga, Calif.-with earthquake records dating back more than a century. He found that although geysers are commonly thought to erupt with clocklike regularity, their timing begins to change as the stresses that lead to quakes begin increasing in the earth around them; Yellowstone's Old Faithful speeds up any time from two to four years before a major quake within...
Geysers may even predict major quakes that will occur thousands of miles away. In the early 1960s, for example, Old Faithful was spewing forth once every 67 minutes. But in 1963 its rate increased to once every 65½ minutes. Then in 1964 it abruptly slowed down again. To Rinehart, that variation in Old Faithful's timing seems intimately connected with Alaska's destructive Good Friday quake...
...great stresses that were building up in Alaska before the quake, Rinehart speculates, traveled through the earth at a rate of from three to six miles per day, eventually reaching as far south as Yellowstone National Park. There they put increasing pressure on the hot-water "plumbing" of Old Faithful. As a result, the geyser began spouting with increasing frequency until the quake finally relieved the strain, allowing Old Faithful to resume a more leisurely pace...