OZ London #3

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MAGNIFICENT FAILURES Hitler's Art teacher—politics was Hitler's second choice. Zhivago overcoats. The Plan to relieve Dien Bien Phu. Princess Margaret's. marriage. The Great Society. Bob Dylan—pale imitation of Donovan. `Wrong Way' Corrigan—who set out to fly to Labrador, arrived in Los Angeles 27 hours later. Thus, either the first man to circumnavigate the globe in a Curtis biplane at Mach 1.5, or else the only aviator ever to be blown backwards across the USA. The LSE's late porter—attempted to quell a scuffle in a passageway. Marlowe—after centuries of valiant effort he has still failed to prove that he is Shakespeare. The American who designed the Confederate 'Chain' Cannon, Two cannons were placed parallel on either side of the main street of a beseiged Virginian town facing the enemy. Their cannon balls were linked by a chain, so that when the cannons were fired simultaneously the entire invading army would be mown down. However, once in flight, the device whiplashed and gracefully boomeranged to massacre the defenders. The Brabazon Flying Boat and the TSR-2—first deliveries were made dead on schedule, to the Imperial War Museum. Bert Russell and J-P. Sartre's War Crimes Trial of LBJ. The Yoko Ono Film Protest Rally-4 of a promised 500 eventuated to picket the British Censorship Board Offices. Walter Craig, President of the Americian Bar Association—appointed by the Warren Commission to 'defend' Oswald. Craig attended 2 of the 51 sessions and only spoke once, but not on behalf of Oswald. Jean Rook, Fashion Editor of the Sun, who for more than two years has been predicting the imminent demise of the mini-skirt. The hippie London Underground Movement— failed to stay underground. The first two issues of OZ. Leslie Parkes—soldier.

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