William Halsey

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    “Can’t” is what our grandparents said about the airplane.
    Richard Blake, and William Cameron Menzies. Stu Kelston (Arthur Franz)

    I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.
    —Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)