Turning down the volume
Turning down the volume Share Via: The author talks about the lack of middle ground in most aspects of our lives these days. Lieutenant Commander Albert Read, groped for the radio after the plane landed and said, âwe are safely on the other side of the pondâ. Perhaps a statement which would make scant heads turn. Until one takes into account, he was reporting the first ever transatlantic crossing in 1919. There is something about the understated comment, which seems so immensely memorable and charming! In an era of the pompous declaration, such disarmingly effortless missives are ra...