Yestermen With Titanium Balls: F. Bert Farquharson at the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, 1940

What to call these men who, in decades past, did fearsome things for a purpose and did so with utter aplomb?  While dangerously close to yes men, the term yestermen works for me. He’s the man who saves the woman from falling off of Mt. Rushmore–all without taking off his tie.  The polar opposite would… Continue reading Yestermen With Titanium Balls: F. Bert Farquharson at the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, 1940