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Special to the Arizona Daily Star “Michael Moore Drawings” by Paul Gold and Michael Moore. Tubecat LLC. 72 pages. $40.
You might remember her as a diminutive news reporter on KGUN-TV, back in the ’70s, or as the spokesperson for the University of Arizona for two decades. She still looks diminutive, but she’s now a 70-something, tricked-out dynamo, “rapping” to beat Parkinson’s disease.
Aeronauts, as they were called, “jumped for coin and glory. It was ‘America’s Cavalcade of Crazy,’” observes Kalt, who has an exuberant way with words. Crowds gathered at state fairs and July 4th celebrations, “eager for death-defying entertainment.” Whether the aeronaut landed safely, spectators were sure to get their money’s-worth.
In April 1945, First Lieutenant Harry Watson was roused from his bed and ordered back into the cockpit of his C-47 Dakota: his top-secret assignment would take him behind enemy lines to retrieve some “human cargo,” including Franz von Papen, a high-profile Nazi. The trip would be treacherous — the night was dark, and he would land in an unlit meadow — and speed was essential.
A decade later, Torrey is newly released from prison and wants the record set straight. Enter ace reporter Josh Solomon, first introduced in a previous Southard novel, “Making Teresa Disappear,” where Solomon demonstrated his knack for getting at the truth. But the truth is elusive: Garden City made up its mind about this incident 10 years ago and has no interest in reopening a racially-charged can of worms.
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