FRED ASTAIRE AND CAVALIER’S MG TD PART 1
SO WHAT’S THE LINK BETWEEN FRED ASTAIRE and the car R&T called “As Friendly as a Tail-Wagging Dog”? Image from That’s Entertainment, 1974. Fred is examining magazines in a Santa … Continue reading
BELL AIRACOBRA/KINGCOBRA: INNOVATIVE AIRCRAFT, RUSSIAN FAV, ADVANCED EXPERIMENT, DON’T FORGET PINBALL PART 2
YESTERDAY THE BELL P-39 EXHIBITED advanced features combined with some faults. Today in Part 2 it becomes a Russian fav and has two unorthodox variants. Lend-Lease P-39s. Even with these … Continue reading
BELL AIRACOBRA/KINGCOBRA: INNOVATIVE AIRCRAFT, RUSSIAN FAV, ADVANCED EXPERIMENT, DON’T FORGET PINBALL PART 1
THE BELL AIRACOBRA WAS ADVANCED in several ways and disadvantaged in others. A lot has been written about its virtues and vices. Yet the aircraft and its offspring became one … Continue reading
THE MOST HAPPY FELON—A SCREENPLAY
SO IT’S THE EARLY 1930S AND I’M WORKING ON THIS HOLLYWOOD SCREENPLAY. Geez, gimme a break. It’s better than standing in a bread line, and as it’s Pre-Code I don’t … Continue reading
HEALTH RESORTS—JUST IN TIME AND PLACE
THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN. TRUMP WANTS TO “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” by turning the clock back to President McKinley’s time. This, despite plenty of us having already had enough of seemingly … Continue reading
HOLMES IN THE STRAND MAGAZINE PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE CLARIFIED SOME MATTERS ABOUT Sherlock Holmes’ stuff: a non-Canonical crooked-stem meerschaum and his authentic country-attire deerstalkers. We continue today in Part 2 with other head wear, his magnifying … Continue reading
HOLMES IN THE STRAND MAGAZINE PART 1
ARTIFACTS OF THE WORLD’S FIRST CONSULTING DETECTIVE are familiar—the oversize meerschaum pipe with its crooked stem, the deerstalker cap, the magnifying glass. Curiously, though, one of these items is relatively … Continue reading
IS “HER JOE” READY FOR THE STATES?
IN HIS “MISC. RAMBLINGS,” MAY 1955, R&T Editor John R. Bond lamented “Road testing, after the first two or three, is not fun. It’s plain hard work, enlivened only by … Continue reading
THE FOUR B’S, LYSISTRATA, THE SECOND GREATEST SEX, AND IS THAT A GUN IN YOUR POCKET? PART 2
YESTERDAY, BBC WORLD SERVICE GOT US STARTED with the Four B’s, a 21st-century movement inspired by Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata, wherein she and her pals swear off sex until their husbands … Continue reading
THE FOUR B’S, LYSISTRATA, THE SECOND GREATEST SEX, AND IS THAT A GUN IN YOUR POCKET? PART 1
KEEPING HEP ON WORLD CULTURE is a non-trivial activity. Here I was listening to my 6:00 a.m. BBC World Service and it mentioned the Korean Four B’s. This encouraged a … Continue reading
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