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Steve Martin (Paul Simon Tribute) - 2002 Kennedy Center Honors
youtube.comFrank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to
... See moreJohn McDonald • A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's My Years with General Motors (The MIT Press)
Father grinned and winked at his visitor. Joe Kane decided that the man who confronted him was mildly insane but harmless.
Paul Negri • Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers: Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Daniel Defoe, Thomas Hardy, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, ... more (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)
Lean on Me
youtube.comDon Michael, a one-armed pianist who played and recorded with Erskine Hawkins in the mid-1940s.
John F. Szwed • Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
While this last was an overstatement and probably a rumor that Donovan himself had spread, it was not far from the mark. Twenty-two years earlier, when presented the Medal of Honor for actions on the Western Front at an award ceremony in the New York City Armory, Donovan had melodramatically unclasped the strap, then re-presented it to the four tho
... See moreBenjamin H. Milligan • By Water Beneath the Walls
Isadora Duncan
open.spotify.comIntroduced to a party of people who ignore their own chauffeur, he protests: “I have not met this gentleman