Born and raised in St. Louis. In fourth grade at Mary Queen of Peace, a Catholic school in the suburb of Webster Groves, a Mrs. Vanderbrook gave me a 5 (equivalent to an A in public schools) in English; made me feel good about myself.
In May of 1906, a 38-year-old artist named Mary DeNeale Morgan ventured into San Francisco ten or twelve days after the great earthquake and fire and recorded the destruction in drawings and pastels.
In the mid-1940s, a Monterey, California motorcycle policeman named Goerge Dovolis received two letters from John Steinbeck discussing, among other things, guns, the acquiring of them, the need of the
``In an era when left-handedness was considered the devil's work and lefties were often forced to use their right hand, Leonardo was an unrepentant southpaw.
Just about every cable network plasters that all over its talk and pseudo-news shows: ``Breaking News.'' Or, ``Stay tuned for,'' in the news person's words, ``a breaking news story _ we'll have it for
There was the time, an unsubstantiated story goes, that Ed Rickets drove young novelist John Steinbeck over the hill from the Monterey Peninsula, California community of Pacific Grove, to Carmel, just
It's just 53 words, but Jeffrey Whitmore's ``Bedtime Story'' has had an amazing and varied life, but then so has Whitmore _ journalist, editor, cartoonist (``Roka''), novelist and, as Sterling Johnson
Paul Newman and David Mamet had at least one strong connection I know of. Newman was brillant in Mamet's superb film script and tale of corruption, ``The Verdict.''
