Fight over (if not in) Mittelwerk continues

[Anville Azote]

On 11/8/06, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
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The Huntsville Times?  My daddy worked for the Huntsville Times!  And
I think I met that ex-Peenemuende fellow described in the article,
some years ago.  Making me three degrees of separation from Jack
Kennedy and Hitler alike.  (Through an old physics professor, I might
be 5 degrees from Pynchon himself:  my professor was a student of
Richard Feynman, whose daughter Michelle published a book of his
correspondence, her literary agent being none other than Melanie
Jackson.)

Like the guy said, everything connects.

I highly recommend Robert Ward's biography of von Braun, by the way,
and not just because Ward is an old friend of my family.  The American
edition is called "Dr. Space" and the British "From Nazis to NASA"; as
Mr. Ward told me, "They had to get the N-word in there somewhere."
The only other differences between the editions are minor vocabulary
tweaks to bring American usage in line with English expectations,
changing "small potatoes" to "small beer" for example.  I do not know
if this has been pointed out before (like I said, my books are
perennially packed), but von Braun once waited at ground zero of the
Rocket, exactly where Pokler was placed.

-A. A.