Way Things Used To Be 34--My First Baseball Mitt
posted 10 months ago | 2 comments
For my eighth birthday my father took me to Davega’s on Broadway near 86th for my first baseball mitt. I picked a glove signed by Steve Sundra, and my father took me down to Riverside Drive to play catch with a hard ball. He had some old mitt he’d...
Assessing The Bush Presidency
posted 10 months ago | 1 comment
(Originally appeared in Wall Street Journal, January 28, 2009)
Karl Rove’s “Bush Was Right When It Mattered Most” (op-ed, Jan. 22) did not appear balanced to this disappointed Republican.
The President was right to attack terrorism, to treat those...
Karl Rove’s “Bush Was Right When It Mattered Most” (op-ed, Jan. 22) did not appear balanced to this disappointed Republican.
The President was right to attack terrorism, to treat those...
The Way Things Used To Be---Young Joe Louis
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About six months before the War ended, my school sent me down to the Hotel Astor on Times Square as P.S.6’s representative to the Herald Tribune Youth Forum. The main speaker was Sergeant Joe Louis with whom I felt I had a personal relationship.
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Aunts Johanna and Margareta's Boycott
posted 11 months ago | 1 comment
When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, and the British declared war, my aunts Johanna and Margareta contributed money and clothing to British War Relief, willingly gave up their shipments of Darjeeling Tea and Dundee Marmalade from Harrods to help...
My Aunts Johanna And Margareta
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The boycott my Aunts Johanna and Margareta conducted against the British Empire always reminds me of my father’s story about the mouse making love to an elephant underneath a coconut tree. A coconut falls and hits ...
The boycott my Aunts Johanna and Margareta conducted against the British Empire always reminds me of my father’s story about the mouse making love to an elephant underneath a coconut tree. A coconut falls and hits ...
Big Nose And The Cute Little Kitten--Part 2
posted 12 months ago | 0 comments
Continued from Part 1
“Watch and learn,” Big nose Frankie said as he walked over to where Maggie was caressing the kitten. I felt my heart sink. I’d heard him describe what he did with girls. He had three girlfriends already and was always trying...
“Watch and learn,” Big nose Frankie said as he walked over to where Maggie was caressing the kitten. I felt my heart sink. I’d heard him describe what he did with girls. He had three girlfriends already and was always trying...
Big Nose And The Cute little Kitten, Part 1
posted about 1 year ago | 1 comment
Standing in front of Theresa’s Drugstore, I would often see Maggie walk past, not exactly smiling, but with a happy expression—serene. Every time I saw her it made me wish I could get up the nerve to speak to her. This was before I even knew her n...
Big Nose Frankie The Fixer
posted about 1 year ago | 0 comments
Until June 1950, we always thought of Big Nose as Big-Nose Frankie, the Hustler, but then the North Koreans attacked the South and they began drafting guys by the thousands. Everyone eighteen had to register, and when they called you, you went dow...
The Way Things Used To Be 25--Big Nose Frankie
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Big-Nose Frankie was five years older than the rest of us which meant: 1-we never called him Big-Nose to his face, and: 2-whenever we had a party we went to him to buy the gin because we were not allowed inside the Acker, Merrill & Condit liqu...
Fiscal 2009 Outlook If Senator Obama Is Elected
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The current projected base deficit is $487 billion for 2009, but that does not cover the second half cost of the war. That cost will raise the deficit to $562 billion.
Senator Obama has advocated the following new programs (estimated costs added....
Senator Obama has advocated the following new programs (estimated costs added....
