Roger Angell on Roberto Clemente
"In the 1971 World Series, Roberto Clemente played a kind of baseball that none of us had ever seen before -- throwing and running and hitting at something close to…
Jack Johnson: The Galveston Giant
The first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world was Jack Johnson. His parents had been slaves who were freed during the Civil War. "I made a lot of mistakes…
The improvisational styles of Thelonious Monk
With his unique improvisational style Thelonious Monk excelled as a jazz pianist and composer. Only Duke Ellington tops Monk as the most-recorded composer of jazz music, ever. Monk and Ellington…
Dudley Moore: Impossible to Dislike
Seeing any of his movies, it was impossible to dislike the English comic actor, writer, composer and musician, Dudley Moore. He won an organ scholarship to Oxford University and became…
Willie Mays’ thoughts on Roberto Clemente
Many baseball authorities, including Vin Scully, have named Willie Mays as the greatest player in the history of the game. For a 1987 interview Joe Morgan asked Mays who was…
Natalie Wood in MIRACLE ON 34 STREET
During 1947, according to the annual poll, Bing Crosby and Betty Grable were the top two attractions in films. Movie tickets cost forty cents that year. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE…
Milton Berle: Mr. Television
In the early days of television there was no one bigger than Milton Berle. It was no contest. People all over America bought their first TV sets to see Milton…
May 7, 1959, Roy Campanella Night
Roy Campanella played his last game for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1957. Following that season on January 28, 1958, he suffered a terrible auto accident. His neck was broken, leaving…
President Barack Obama Remembering & Celebrating the Life of Dr. Maya Angelou
"Over the course of her remarkable life, Maya Angelou was many things – an author, poet, civil rights activist, playwright, actress, director, composer, singer and dancer. But above all, she…
Bettie Page & pin-up artist Olivia De Berardinis
Bettie Page hailed the work of pin-up artist Olivia De Berardinis as "better than Vargas and Petty combined. She makes me so beautiful, her pictures outshine all the rest."
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