...and Lucille Ball was a master of the Gookie, too. In fact, she had Harpo on a guest star on I Love Lucy.

I'm in the middle of reading the new book "Charlatan" about Dr. Brinkley, the goat testicle transplant quack of the 1920s and 30s. This doesn't sound that different. Can we see the published research behind all miracle medical claims, please? Especially before experimenting on humans?

A few years before 1939, the inimitable aviation eccentric, W. W. Christmas, promoted spiral skyscraper airports. A newspaper article with neat illustrations is at:

http://www.rcls.org/jkuntz/spiralairport.jpg

Note the runways lead down to a subterranean level, depositing passengers right next to the subway. Christmas made some terrific scale models of this--don't know what happened to them.