Perhaps this letter from Dart will finally lay the WAVEs topic to rest. His entire one-page note was an apology for his handling of the situation, but in typical Dart style. I quote below some of the choicest morsels:

Oh, lay your pistol down! Call off the dogs!

Stand by, Peterson! Action Starbord!

I surely put my size twelves into a bucket of steam.

The worst of it (for me) is that there’s another letter on it’s way.

I wrote to Fred about my plight. He wrote to you. I shudder to think what you’ll say to me when you get that letter from him.

There was a guy here who told me I was making too much ado about nothing. I’ve already shaken his hand and told him he was right.

Hell hath no fire like a woman’s ire!

Please take it easy on me. I left my asbestos suit at home.