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Article: Advertising Flier; For Skywriter Wayne Mansfield, the Winds of Change Altered His Course
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 18, 1999
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While a relentless onslaught of sunny days has many Washingtonians
praying for rain, skywriter Wayne Mansfield would like a little less
haze.
After postponing his latest stunt several times this summer due to
overcast skies, Mansfield stitched his letters into a near-cloudless
sky just south of the Mall yesterday afternoon, as tourists in line
at the Washington Monument tried to guess the message.
"Compare? Company?" offered Cindy Kalbfell after seeing the
first three letters spelled out. Both she and her husband, Ed--in
town from Ohio with their two boys--are private pilots as well as
avid sky- divers. Neither had ever seen skywriting in action.
Ed Kalbfell tried to imagine writing words in ...
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...For government professor Harvey C. Mansfield Jr., a favorite conservative voice ... roller-coaster year. In January, Mansfield found himself embroiled in a campus controversy ... in teaching, and a clear message that Mansfield's performance in the classroom was ...
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