For thirty-five years of active naval service, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat was the foremost air superiority fighter of the Cold War, with continuing service as a fighter-bomber in the Gulf Wars. Two hundred thousand sailors, both pilots and "ground" crew, served in F-14 squadrons with the Tomcat over its decades of flight.This book is a grand remembrance of this great aircraft by those who flew it. Hundreds of pilots have included their favorite stories of the missions and planes that brought them home. Two hundred exceptional color photographs show the F-14 on the deck, in the air, and over the sea.
Early in 1983 ... [the] severely middle-aged poet/critic [author] began writing a 14-line poem (a sonnet, in fact). this ... book tells the story of his 5-year struggle to get that poem right. More than that, however, it is a full-scale investigation of poetics, with numerous side-musings into poems by such masters as Shakespeare, Keats, Cummings, Pound, Yeats, Roethke and Stevens--as well as such contemporaries as Karl Kempton, G. Huth, Crag Hill, Bob Grenier and John M. Bennett. It is, in fact, ... [a] large-scale discussion of poetry to cover all extant varieties of it, including current visual poetry, alphaconceptual poetry and "language poetry." Anyone interested in what words, or even mere letters, can say and be at their best, should find this book of ... value ... -Back cover.
Growing up is bewildering and exciting to every child. This was particularly true for a child born during the Great Depression (1930's) and who also experienced the "Home Front" efforts of World War II. Coupled with these great national events was the fact that this child lived in a multi-ethnic "melting pot" city of Passaic, New Jersey. The true growing up adventures are told in a series of stories, some with side-splitting humor, others highly poignant. For example: How learning the "facts of life" from the older guys on the street corner caused a major lifetime disaster; how, with his best friend, he personally helped defeat Japan and Germany in WWII; how he witnessed the three greatest aeronautical events of the 20th century; how the handwriting rules in the Passaic schools caused a blunder in front of President John F. Kennedy which helped Kennedy to decide to send a man to the moon; how the structural design of the giant Saturn rocket booster was actually invented in a Passaic toilet bowl. But more important, the stories provide the secret of how the immigrant-dominated Passaic uniquely prepared its children to succeed in America, and how it still doing it today.
A brilliant collection of original stories. A predatory alien accidentally teleported to Earth. A mad scientist and his imprisoned ghost. A space traveller returns to face an accusation of murder.
All of the comic book reading public during the 1940's followed the adventures of "Blackhawk" and his mighty men as they conquered the world of evil. Those of us with a mindbent toward things aeronautical knew that it was not "Superman" or "Batman" who held the keys to a crime-free society, bring on "Blackhawk." Dressed in daring dark uniforms, the dashing figures of this 1940's version of the "A-Team" were mounted on the very latest of aircraft. Through the paint brush the artist portrayed an entire squadron of snub-nosed twin engine fighters which those of us old enough to remember know that only a single actual aircraft existed for the artist to illustrate, the Grumman XF5F-1 Skyrocket.
Bethany Carlson, a nine-year-old girl born and raised in a common-law marriage, inherits a 70-million-dollar estate. Durango attorney George Grumman is the executor of the late Harold Carlson's will. Grumman appoints staff investigator Mike Gallagher to serve as the child's custodial guardian. The adult heirs, born to different mothers and long-estranged from their father, resort to murder and arson in an effort to disinherit Bethany so they can claim the entire inheritance for themselves. As any bookie will tell you, the outcome is a foregone conclusion when you send the farm team up against the varsity squad.
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