Kroc got on the phone and in a very high-pitched voice he said, “Mommy, I bought us a baseball team today.” There was a long silence, but I imagine what she said to him.
Thursday, March 26
Sitting at tables with cocktails while watching half-dressed boys and girls mime to Liza Minelli songs as they wade through a miasma of dried ice is a concept of entertainment that has died out elsewhere
Thursday, March 19
I don’t know why we expanded like this. I guess I’m a damn fool and like to work and create things. We had to have jobs, industry. San Diego wasn’t like Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Steel.
"Donald Trump told me the other night at a United Cerebral Palsy gala, 'Baby, you look beautiful!''" And, "'Hair is what life is all about,' says my delicious friend Nancy Collins of Prime Time Live."
After he came home following World War II, Cheever regularly began to keep a journal. Perhaps, living again with his wife and children, he needed a space where he could maintain, even hide, a private life.
Thursday, March 12
Navy SEALs have gotten a lot of good ink across the years since America first read about JFK’s maritime commandos during the Vietnam War. Esquire, for example, featured them in a 1974 story titled "Mean …
Thursday, March 5
I robbed my first bank out of sheer fear. But once I walked in with my gun. the fear was gone and I knew just who I was. It started in the Encinitas drug scene, …