The charred bones of the dirigible Hindenburg had not had five days to cool last week before the Saturday Evening Post was out on the nation's newsstands with an amazingly apposite article. Title: "Five O'Clock, Off California"Author: Lieutenant George W. Campbell, U. S. N. Subject: the breaking-up and loss of the Navy dirigible Macon off Point Sur in 1935. Writing with the care and control of Stephen Crane's classic chronicle of disaster, The Open Boat, Lieut. Campbell tells a memorable tale. Without a wasted word, readers are made vividly aware of every disciplined...
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