Story from the Globe this morning: 11 Cubans in 50s Buick stopped at sea. Now that's when Americans really knew how to build cars! Too bad they were turned back; Buick could have used that for a great ad campaign. And kudos to them for actually getting that behemoth to float. I own a '58 Cadillac and it weighs twice as much as my VW Jetta. As a matter of fact, my VW could fit into the Caddy's trunk.

More Saintsbury musings and witticisms:

If Education can do anything at all it is by pulling people who ought not to be in ruts out of them, and accustoming those who ought to the best kind of rut obtainable and suitable.

Manners are perhaps the only thing absolutely exigible by man from man. Brains, beauty, strength, riches, birth, etc., are gifts; morals are subject to fearful temptation; but manners every one can have merely by choosing to have them.