More Von Braun

[Monte Davis]

Mark Kohut writes:
 
> The watercress capital of the US was Huntsville, Alabama until it became
known as Rocket  
> City WITH THE ARRIVAL OF WERNER VON BRAUN! ..    
 
> ...TRP chose 'watercress' in 1961 to characterize a salad 'camouflage' of
a machine gun 
 
Any other writer, I'd say "much too much of a stretch."
 
But given magpie-mind TRP's stint at Boeing in 1960-62 as V. was in the home
stretch, and the number of "space starts here" stories written about
Huntsville in those years, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
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