Author Archives
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Adams Snubs Washington’s Birthday & His Snarky Top 10 List on GW
The second President liked the first President well enough, but he wasn’t all gaga about having The Great One’s birthday celebrated with dance parties, fireworks and parades. In fact, if any one President would surely take fiendish pleasure in knowing… Read More ›
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Inside Reagan’s 1950s General Electric “Home of the Future”
Despite the fact that he’d served two full terms as governor of California, the nation’s most populous and prosperous state, when Ronald Reagan was running for President in 1980 he was most frequently dismissed by the perception that he… Read More ›
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Joe Namath: The Happy Hipster who Made the Superbowl Happen
There he was, today, once again making the football field he stood on the the center of the world’s attention. In case twenty-first century eyes didn’t recognize the seventy-year old man who tossed the coin kicking off today’s Superbowl… Read More ›
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JFK, Joan Crawford & Why She was in Dallas When He was Shot
There’s been some peculiar pairs among Presidents and Movie Stars: Harry Truman and Tallulah Bankhead, George Bush and George Clooney, Richard Nixon and Jackie Gleason, Calvin Coolidge and Tom Mix John F. Kennedy and Movie Star Joan Crawford, however, might… Read More ›
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Justin Bieber to Thomas Edison: Eight Celebrity Degrees of Separation
Justin Bieber to John Waters to William Burroughs to David Bowie to Liz Taylor to Joan Crawford to John F. Kennedy to Grace Coolidge to Thomas Edison On January 23, 2014, teenage pop music sensation Justin Bieber was arrested for… Read More ›
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Elusive Cats of the JFK, Ford & Carter Daughters (Cats in the White House, Part 7)
The Jazz Age Coolidge cats’ meows were a distant echo in the White House by the time the John F. Kennedy family moved there in 1961. In the interim there was plenty a First Dog but nary a First Feline…. Read More ›
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The Cool Cats of Coolidge (Cats in the White House, Part 6)
This article resumes the series begun last autumn on Cats in the White House, previous installments covering the Fillmore, Lincoln, Hayes and Theodore Roosevelt Administrations. Coolidge liked cats. But you’d never know it from popular history. It’s the startling vision… Read More ›
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A Cleveland Dog Resists Rescue for Two Years
This article was written by Donna J. Miller, reporter of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and first appeared on www.cleveland.com on January 9, 2014, with accompanying photograps by Angeline Dzadony. An abandoned black dog held a lonely vigil for two years… Read More ›
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Michelle Obama’s 50th Birthday: When First Families Party at the White House
The Chicago Tribune reports that two weeks from this coming Saturday, the White House will be the scene of a birthday party for First Lady Michelle Obama, who will turn 50 years old the day before, having been born… Read More ›
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