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Brass Spittoons. Born in the Wollochet Bay area of Puget Sound, Hunt traveled to school in Tacoma, Wash., on his father's 120-ft. steamboat Atalanta, earned pocket money steam-cleaning the vessel's brass spittoons. He quit high school after two years, blitzed through an accounting course and shipped out aboard a steamship plying trade with the Orient, eventually earning a master mariner's rating. After working on a pineapple plantation in Hawaii, Hunt returned home at 20 and set up a brief partnership in a Puget Sound ferry service. In 1927, he bluffed...
...residents insist on the definite article) a regular stop. Down the center of Psychedelphia runs Haight Street (which hippies hope to have renamed "Love Street"); the region itself-once the residence of such formidable families as the silver-mining Floods and the couture-vending Magnins-is studded with steamboat-Gothic mansions and psychedelic gathering places like the "I and Thou" coffee shop and the "Print Mint." Its inhabitants wear everything from Elizabethan motley to Judean beards. They preach every gospel from the 19th century socialism of France's Charles Fourier to the all-purpose caritas of St. Francis. Most...
Dirksen used to advantage a Senate rule by which no committee other than Appropriations may meet while the main body is in session. "I must insist on that rule," he intoned in his best steamboat-Gothic profundo. "I cannot, helter-skelter, permit one committee to meet and not another." Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright protested in vain that his Foreign Relations Committee urgently needed to review President Johnson's $275 million supplemental request for economic aid to South Viet Nam. The problem could easily be resolved, Dirksen countered, by getting Mansfield to withdraw his motion to take up repeal...
...AMERICANS: THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE, by Daniel J. Boorstin. In booming pre-Civil War America, ingenuity, speed, and a belief in the future gave the settlers their grip on the vast land, and Historian Boorstin brings the period to life in a masterful blend of statistics and steamboat races...
...Prairie wagons were built for maneuverability and speed-but were not expected to outlast their westward journey. Steamboat racing became a popular passion, despite its appalling accident record: between 1825 and 1850 at least 150 major explosions on western steamboats ("half boat, half alligator") killed more than 1,400 people. The railroads, hastily and flimsily built, also had an appalling accident rate. No one seemed to mind that railroad travelers were jammed together in long boxlike cars without distinction of social class and that stopovers were brief. In time the quick lunch-counter meal became an American institution; gregariousness...