The late Melvil Dewey was a daring man. He invented the library system of decimal classification, crusaded for the metric system of weights & measures, sponsored simplified spelling used on the menus (pe sup, hucklberi pi) of the fashionable Lake Placid Club, which he founded. If Melvil Dewey had been alive last week, he would have chuckled over his daring granddaughter Katharine.
Twenty-two-year-old Katharine is a nurse by profession but her hobby is perhaps the most dangerous sport in the worlddriving a four-man bobsled. Last week she competed at Lake Placid against five of...
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