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Matt Roth: "...Some may not recall that I posted a wire story from 1957 (when VN collected many of the images that later appeared in PF) which I believe was the inspiration for the image in Shade's poem. See here: https://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A3=ind0806&L=nabokv-l&P=14801&E=2&B=--%3D__Part80A985FA.0__%3D&N=ice+chunks+airplanes.pdf&T=application%2Fpdf [*]
JM: When I first read Matt Roth's posting I didn't realize that the farmer wasn't killed by the ice chunk, nor that such occurrences weren't sufficiently registered in 1957. With the steady increase of airplanes crossing the sky, their global occurrence when Nabokov wrote "Pale Fire" must have gained attention and it's surprising that M.Roth's find is the only available one in that decade ( an information of the kind that Nabokov could have read).
From the CSI fictional developments only 24 similar instances took their toll on human life. It would be interesting to find out what were the sources used for the composition of their plot and if there were other newspaper notices, besides the special one located by M.R..
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* - "Farmer Puzzled As Cakes of Ice Fall From Sky" READING, Pa. (INS)-Farmer Edward, Groff may wonder today if there ij somethiing to "Chicken LittW fear, that "the sky is falling down." Groff was standing in one of his fields at Bernville, near Reading, Tuesday night when a 50 pound chunk of ice tumbled from the sky, narrowly missing him. He rushed to the house to tell his wife of the strange happening and as they talked another whistling sound was heard and another cake of ice landed nearby. GROFF said the first cake was two feet-in diameter and the other was 18 inches. The puzzled-farmer put both in his freezer and called police. State police theorized the ice may have fallen from a cargo plane or a plane engaged in cloudseeding.' They admitted, however, they hadn't heard of any ramrmaking in the.area. , ANOTHER theory advanced was that the ice cakes are related to Tuesday night's hail storm that hit the Schwenksville area, about 30 miles from Bernville. The ice will be sent to the state capital for analysis."Wednesday, July 31,1957 THE HAMMOND TIMES
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JM: When I first read Matt Roth's posting I didn't realize that the farmer wasn't killed by the ice chunk, nor that such occurrences weren't sufficiently registered in 1957. With the steady increase of airplanes crossing the sky, their global occurrence when Nabokov wrote "Pale Fire" must have gained attention and it's surprising that M.Roth's find is the only available one in that decade ( an information of the kind that Nabokov could have read).
From the CSI fictional developments only 24 similar instances took their toll on human life. It would be interesting to find out what were the sources used for the composition of their plot and if there were other newspaper notices, besides the special one located by M.R..
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* - "Farmer Puzzled As Cakes of Ice Fall From Sky" READING, Pa. (INS)-Farmer Edward, Groff may wonder today if there ij somethiing to "Chicken LittW fear, that "the sky is falling down." Groff was standing in one of his fields at Bernville, near Reading, Tuesday night when a 50 pound chunk of ice tumbled from the sky, narrowly missing him. He rushed to the house to tell his wife of the strange happening and as they talked another whistling sound was heard and another cake of ice landed nearby. GROFF said the first cake was two feet-in diameter and the other was 18 inches. The puzzled-farmer put both in his freezer and called police. State police theorized the ice may have fallen from a cargo plane or a plane engaged in cloudseeding.' They admitted, however, they hadn't heard of any ramrmaking in the.area. , ANOTHER theory advanced was that the ice cakes are related to Tuesday night's hail storm that hit the Schwenksville area, about 30 miles from Bernville. The ice will be sent to the state capital for analysis."Wednesday, July 31,1957 THE HAMMOND TIMES
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