LOTUS CORTINA (VERSUS FIRST FORD MUSTANG)—1964 PART 1
WHAT AN INTERESTING QUANDARY for an auto enthusiast in the summer of 1964: Buy one of the just-introduced Ford Mustangs tested in R&T August 1964? Or, having read R&T July … Continue reading
MASTERING THE ART OF MYTH COOKING
ANYA VON BREMZEN HAS WRITTEN another interesting new cookbook. Or so Irina Dumitrescu writes in “How Do Certain Foods Become National Dishes?,” The New York Times Book Review, June 15, … Continue reading
AIRPLANE DOUBLE FEATURES PART 2
GEE, THERE HAVE BEEN A BUNCH of good airplane flicks, whether viewed one by one or paired as double features. Here in Part 2, we serve a stint in World … Continue reading
AIRPLANE DOUBLE FEATURES PART 1
READER TOM ASKS, “How about an article on flying films?” Readers Bob and Andrew each responded with favorites. Indeed, here in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow is a … Continue reading
DOUBLE FEATURES PART 2
YESTERDAY WE CONSIDERED movie double features, both inexplicable and otherwise. Today in Part 2, there’s memorable endurance viewing, together with double features of operatic nature. Endurance Viewing. Here’s a double … Continue reading
DOUBLE FEATURES PART 1
THOSE OF A CERTAIN AGE may remember the motion picture phenomenon of double features. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits of exceptional twin billings, some … Continue reading
JANE’S ART PART 2
YESTERDAY, TIDBITS FOCUSED ON SEVERAL ADS from Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft 1919. Today in Part 2, we enjoy the high level of technical illustration in this particular Jane’s. Attributions. … Continue reading
JANE’S ART PART 1
A FELLOW NAMED JANE WAS a fin-de-siecle gamer with a special interest in naval battles. Wikipedia recounts, “He first began to sketch warships in his teens, and was notable in … Continue reading
COME SI DICE SPRITE IN ITALIANO?
THE QUESTION ABOVE (“HOW TO SAY SPRITE IN ITALIAN?”) has a perfect response in “Innocenti,” pronounced “I-no-CHEN-ty.” R&T concurred in May 1964: “A newcomer among the sports car currently offered … Continue reading
THE JAPAN YEAR BOOK 1918
NATIONAL “YEAR BOOKS” AREN’T THE SORT OF THING that a tourist totes around. Instead, they’re compendia identifying a country’s territory, its government, its people, its commerce, its general goings-on for … Continue reading
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