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...Tail Twister. In the uneasy years before the Civil War, sweeping schemes for social reform were "far from subversive," Author Hale points out. Greeley himself advocated a more equitable distribution of wealth. As editor of an independent, successful newspaper, he "stood at the center of the turbulence as a barometer, a bellwether, a broker of notions and ideas." Though Marx's dispatches were laden with doom-fraught prophecies of social breakdown, Greeley's young managing editor, Charles A. Dana (later famed as owner-editor of the old New York Sun), happily assured his London correspondent: "They are read...
...dozen languages, a mass of information on going topics such as had never reached an American newspaper before." Marx wrote on political developments in England, France, Spain, the Middle and Far East, "the whole world, as seen from his Soho garret." Editor Greeley, notes Author Hale, "was a perennial twister of the British lion's tail," and had an eager accomplice, in Anglophobe Marx. Some of Marx's bitterest tirades for the Tribune, e.g., his dispatch on the plight of British workers during the depressed 18503, were bodily incorporated into his Das Kapital...
...coming our way . . . boiling along, churning rather slowly. It ought to be here in just one minute. Now, we're going to have to step out of the way here to let this tornado go past. There it goes!" Seconds later, as the black twister screamed past him, Newsman Bob Whitten of Dallas' KRLD told radio listeners how the tornado flipped a huge trailer truck 50 ft. into air, then smashed it down atop an empty car. Listeners could hear the thud of debris on and around Whitten...
...Hampshire--Intervale, poor to fair, Twister Trail fair; Jackson, Black Mountain, poor to fair Valley, poor to fair...
...fourth man, Greg Stone '58, staged a stunt with Charlie Batterman, M.I.T. diving coach. The varsity diver made his entrance during a Hungarian diving exhibition. Suddenly, as a diver poised to execute a "three summersault half twister," the sport coat-clad clown pushed his way through the audience onto the pool deck. "You're too small to do such dives. Let me try!" protested Stone. He did. Sportcoat, tie, Stone and all plumeted into the water