Hillary’s Girlhood


Myrtle Cagle, astronaut trainee, circa 1961.

The other day, when Hillary’s claim that she wrote to NASA and was told in a responding letter that the space agency “didn’t take girls” struck us as implausible and poorly calculated because obviously checkable, our interest waned at the prospect of FOILing the correspondence.

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A Globeful of Cuisines, An Automat Atmosphere

The whole point of an automat used to be that what you saw was what you got. The Globe restaurant looks like an automat from the 40′s and offers a similarly wide selection of dishes (although they are not designated for a Horn & Hardart shelf life and they don’t come out of tiny coin-op Read More