I have written elsewhere about my experience as a reader of Tom Swift books in 3rd and 4th grades at Edwin J. Kiest Elementary School in Dallas. Since my family moved three miles northwest in the summer of 1963, I was no longer a Kiest Indian but...
I take Memorial Day seriously. Every June 6, you can find me at Seoul National Cemetery showing respect to those who fought and died for Korean independence (and other prominent persons). This year was different since I would be traveling 139...
Due to congestive heart failure brought on by pneumonia, James Nathaniel Brown went the way of all flesh on May 18. His 87-year life is a mixture of appealing and appalling. I will address the former before moving on to the latter. A native of...
The mean streets of south Dallas, where Duane Thomas grew up, are not far from the Cotton Bowl, and he surely dreamed about playing football there. He had starred at Lincoln High School, but this was at the tail end of the segregation days and...
Feliks Dzierzynski (1877ￚ1926), a.k.a. “Iron Felix,” was one of the architects of the Red Terror. Vyacheslav Molotov (1890ￚ1986) coldly oversaw agricultural collectivization that resulted in 11 million people being worked to death. Vyacheslav...
To my dear friends in the Philippines—indeed, to each of the 109 million people living in that sprawling archipelago—I would like to say that we Americans have not always been the best allies. Now, it’s true that we helped you kick the Spanish...
To a large extent, we still adhere to the proverb “Of the dead, say nothing but good” which can be traced back to a Spartan named Chilon in the sixth century BC; the Latin version is De mortuis nil nisi bonum. As soon as a very fallible person...
• A Book of Travelers’ Tales by Eric Newby, Penguin Books, 1985 [July 2011] • A Brief History of American Literature by John Huh, Shinasa, 2001 [May 2008] • A Brief History of American Sports by Elliott J. Gorn and...
(1952) January 1—Kentucky beats TCU, 20-7, in Cotton Bowl; Georgia Tech beats Baylor, 17-14, in Orange Bowl; Illinois beats Stanford, 40-7, in Rose Bowl; Maryland beats Tennessee, 28-13, in Sugar Bowl. January 9—Boston Red Sox’ Ted Williams...
January 10—Coco Chanel dies. January 17—Baltimore Colts beat Dallas Cowboys, 16-13, in Super Bowl 5. January 25—Charles Manson and three female followers convicted of Tate-La Bianca murders; Idi Amin takes power in Uganda. February 4—NASDAQ...
I have opined elsewhere that Pete Maravich should have declared independence from his father the day he graduated from high school in Raleigh, North Carolina. At LSU, Press’s boy never played a lick of defense and did not grasp what team...
Since Audrey Lim resides in the Deokso (first syllable pronounced as “duck”) district of Seoul, I had been there numerous times. And whenever I disembarked from the red 1700 bus or came out of Deokso Subway Station, I would turn to my left and...
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