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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raised $140,000 to form Transocean. Nelson still spends most of his time piloting Transocean planes (his wife, a former United Air Lines stewardess, still occasionally flies with him, as stewardess). On his flights he keeps a sharp eye out for new business; so do his pilots. One recently took off with a load of Army supplies for Germany. In Paris he loaded up with Jewish emigrants bound for Australia, in Australia he drummed up a cargo of meat for Guam; from Guam he carried furloughed workers to Oakland, Calif., where Transocean headquarters sent him back to Windsor Locks, Conn...
Penny-a-Liner. Dirty, ragged, hideously misprinted, sometimes illustrated with pictures that had nothing to do with the text, the penny-dreadfuls had many of the virtues of naked imagination, all the vices of standardized hack work. Their authors, paid by the line (less than a penny), took care that each scream, each gush of blood, even each sentence, received a line all to itself-and thereby laid the foundation of the clipped, brusque speech of the contemporary thriller. Their immediate fascination and influence were enormous. Charles Dickens' low-life reflected their high-spots, Wilkie Collins refined their eeriness...
Patriotic Savagery. As the century advanced, the bloods took on a deeper sheen of respectability. Savagery was given a patriotic purpose, and the pirate's victim rose out of the scuppers to become the pirate's relentless pursuer. Aimed now directly at the juvenile market, boys' magazines arose for every class, their authors ranging from Talbot Baines Reed, G. A. Henty and P. G. Wodehouse to a lesser-known host of "clergymen, headmasters, baronets, officers . . . titled ladies...
Courts & Prisons. Rush may have had engaging qualities; his humorless autobiography fails to disclose them. Yet, visiting Europe, he called on great men who not only made him welcome but asked him to come again. Benjamin Franklin, then in London, took him to the court of George III, introduced him to his literary friends, and lent him money. Rush dined with Artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, Novelist Oliver Goldsmith ("He spoke with the Irish accent"), and crotchety Literary Czar Samuel Johnson, who reports Dr. Rush was rude to Goldsmith. Rush even got himself invited as a dinner guest of famed Political...
Bill Bingham's nice white goalposts lasted about 15 seconds before being shredded into a thousand souvenirs. The boys didn't care which goalposts they took. Just so they were white and standing was all that mattered. The cops in blue guarding them just sort of disappeared. Maybe they were trampled into the ground, maybe they helped pull down the posts. It was hard to tell...