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The wheel has turned once more.




Tesla vibes, not war!
In response to a report published last week that says the "world will be run by wireless" in 2025, the Cincinnati Enquirer asks what the use of technological takeovers might be.

"Lazy people would […] make love by wireless, and there couldn’t be much fun to that," says the Enquirer. But wait... WIRELESS MAKES WOMEN MASCULINE!





Sept 22, 1958: Better Air Weather Service Planned
Sailor, Aviator, Meteorologist, & Director of the US Weather Bureau.
CDR Francis Wylton Reichelderfer [1895-1983] also known as “Reich” presided over a revolutionary era in the history of the Weather Bureau. He trained as a U.S. Navy pilot and from 1922 to 1928, was appointed Chief of Navy Aerology because of his meteorological and aviation experience.

From 1938 to 1963, long-time chief of the United States Weather Bureau ushered in the era of space and computer technology in forecasting. Served under Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy and Eisenhower before retiring in 1963 with many honors. Dr. Reichelderfer came to his job as the nation's top weather watcher in 1938 after 20 years of service as a naval aviator and meteorologist.

His long bio is off the charts.

Francis W Reichelderfer (1895-1983) was appointed Chief of the US Weather Bureau in December 1938 and was in office when the bureau was transferred to the Department of Commerce. He would serve in office for 25 years until retiring in 1963. Over these years he was responsible for bringing the Weather Bureau into a progressive new age. He also helped found and was the first head of the WMO when it was created in 1951.

Educated as a chemical engineer, he started his meteorological career in the US Navy during World War I. After the war, he was the meteorologist for the the first transatlantic flight of an airplane, the Navy's NC-4 seaplane, in May 1919. He was an experienced aviator, and served as Chief of Naval Aerology (i.e., meteorology) from 1922 to 1928, working in the Weather Bureau building. In 1931 the Navy sent him to Bergen, Norway to study Bjerknes' theory of fronts and air masses.

After this Reichelderfer was assigned to the dirigible service (he was weather officer for the dirigible Los Angeles at Lakehurst, New Jersey). Later he served as executive officer aboard the battleship USS Utah. In 1938 he retired from the Navy to become Chief of the Weather Bureau. His background in aviation and familiarity with the Norwegian cyclone model were key to his appointment. He appointed Carl Gustav Rossby, prominent Swedish meteorologist, academic, and friend, as his assistant chief.

Reichelderfer led the Weather Bureau during World War II, which was responsible for training hundreds of meteorologists and for bringing the first women into meteorology.  He served on the Joint Committee on Meteorology with Navy and Army chiefs.  He promoted the involvement of universities in offering programs in forecasting as well as meteorological physics.  Before this, forecasting was something learned by apprenticeship.

More at The Department of Commerce Years (1940-1970)

When he retired, in 1963, President John F. Kennedy said: "You have held the post of Chief of the Weather Bureau with great distinction under four presidents...As Chief of the Weather Bureau, you presided over the evolution of meteorology and weather forecasting from an art to a science."



Sept 22, 1958: Tonight, LOLA GOES TO WORK


Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant.

Daughter of British emigrants, the flaming red hair actress was born to the theater. Her mother, Gertrude, was a vaudevillian and dancer. Her father, Joseph, was an MGM studio electrician. When she was a child, young Gwen was afflicted with rickets, a disease that left her legs so badly misshapen that she was called "Gimpy" by other children and had to wear orthopedic boots and stiff braces. Her mother placed her in dance classes at the age of 3 in hopes of strengthening her legs and improving her carriage. By six years of age, little Gwen was studying & performing many dance forms (ballroom, Balinese, tap, jazz, juggling, flamenco) AND she taught Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe to dance. Decades later you might remember her from Cocoon (1985).


Sept 22, 1961: Twilight Zone's "The Arrival" airs. An air-traffic investigator tries to figure out how a large passenger plane could have landed perfectly with no one aboard — including pilots. Perhaps @727Sky can explain this one.

Written by Rod Serling. Stars Harold J. Stone, Fredd Wayne, and Noah Keen


The characters all concluded that there is no way possible that an airplane could simply land itself. However, earlier in Missouri in 1957, a US Air Force DC-3 - the same type as used in the show - ran out of fuel while carrying people, who all bailed out to safety. The plane glided itself, landing on an empty cornfield, intact.

A tragic coincidence connected with this episode: at one point Sheckly (Harold J. Stone) deliberately walks toward a moving propeller blade. The episode's director, Boris Sagal, would later be killed in 1981 when he accidentally walked into a helicopter's moving blades in the parking lot of the Timberline lodge on Mt. Hood Oregon [the exteriors location from The Shining (1980)] during filming of the TV mini-series World War III (1982). Bloody hell, what a way to go! He was a director and writer, known for The Omega Man (1971).


Sept 22, 1961: A STRANGE WORLD / Civil Defense Program...




Virgil Kane is the name
And I served on the Danville train
'Till Stoneman's cavalry came
And tore up the tracks again

In the winter of '65
We were hungry, just barely alive
By May the 10th, Richmond had fell
It's a time I remember, oh so well

The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"

Back with my wife in Tennessee
When one day she called to me
"Virgil, quick, come see,
There goes Robert E. Lee!"

Now, I don't mind chopping wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
You take what you need
And you leave the rest
But they should never
Have taken the very best...




Sept 22, 1969: The Canadian-American rock band THE BAND released their self-titled album, featuring timeless songs.


According to Rob Bowman's liner notes for the 2000 reissue, The Band has been viewed as a concept album, with the songs focusing on people, places and traditions associated with a traditional view of Americana. Thus, many of the songs draw on historic themes, such as "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)", "Jawbone", "Up on Cripple Creek", shaping the sound of Americana forever.


Sept 22, 1973: ABC vs CBS Evening Lineup, Chicago Daily News TV. The Partridge Family and "Rosemary's Baby" - Now that’s a prime-time contrasting pair!




Sept 22, 1975: Howard Beale, a long-time newscaster for UBS, learned he was being fired due to his ratings going in the dumpster.




Sept 22, 1992: mild-mannered employee at the Stardust casino, sports book cashier William Brennan walked out of the Las Vegas Strip property with $500,000 ($225k in cash, the rest chips). Poof! Like a magic show he, the money & chips were never seen again. Based on the Vegas news video clip from 2019 my guess is he was retired out in the Mojave Desert.

In 2006 the legendary Stardust closed its doors permanently and the following year it went kaboom and so did the mystery caper, as a judge dismissed the case.



UNSOLVED VEGAS MYSTERIES: What Happened to Stardust Bandit Bill Brennan?