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When Thompson died at 48 (in 1907, of tuberculosis), his sole belongings were "a few old pipes and old pens lying in a tin lid" and a nondescript collection of clippings from the Daily Mail (e.g., "Mikado Airs on Japanese Warship-Amusing Scenes"; "The Milk Peril, What Hinders Reform"). But by then, thanks in good part to Editor Meynell (who lived on until 1948), he stood second only to William Butler Yeats as the foremost lyricist...
...Indians, the death of Tecumseh). That left 26 ft. for everything since. Cox's solution will be three brief scenes bringing the U.S. up to the age of flight: 1) Union and Confederate soldiers shaking hands after the Civil War, 2) the gun crew of a U..S. warship in the Spanish-American War, and 3) Orville Wright taking off in his fresh-air biplane with his brother Wilbur running alongside, steadying a wing...
...Churchill last week told the House of Commons as much as he thought it should know about Britain's first atomic explosion, set off Oct. 3 off the Monte Bello Islands north of Australia. The bomb (he called it that for the first time) was detonated inside a warship - the 1,450-ton frigate, H.M.S. Plym-in order "to investigate the effect of an atomic explosion in a harbor...
Unknown Lights. Even before this turn-of-the-century flurry, says Menzel, flying saucers were reported. In 1893, the British warship Caroline saw mysterious lights just south of Korea. They "flew" in a long line, sometimes changing their formation. Through a glass they appeared "to emit a thin smoke." On reaching Kobe, the officers of the Caroline learned that these "Unknown Lights of Japan" had been observed by fishermen and were even described in Japanese schoolbooks...
Japan's bestselling phonograph record in 1951, Tokyo reported last week, was the Warship March of the old imperial navy:-recorded with the brasses muffled and the drums replaced by tambourines and castanets...