All have passed away: President John F. Kennedy and Dallas policeman J.D. Tippit (both d. 1963), Texas Governor John Connally (d. 1993), Jesse Curry (Dallas police chief, d. 1980), Will Fritz (captain of the DPD’s homicide and robbery division...
Despite the passage of almost 70 years, sports historians still remember the Helsinki Olympics of 1952. The Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel and Thailand took part for the first time; (West) Germany and...
How many modern-day baseball fans could identify Charles Leo “Gabby” Hartnett? Very few. I find this odd since he was quite a player. A Rhode Island native, he was with the Chicago Cubs from 1922 to 1940 and had one final season with the New York...
I do not live in the past, but sometimes I find myself reminiscing about the 700-plus races I ran between 1979 and 2016. The competition, the friendships made, the occasional atrocious weather—great, great memories. While I can’t do it anymore...
PATRICIA BARNWELL A Gill and Hill girl, Patricia was vice president of the Art Club, a lab assistant and a PTA representative at Bryan Adams. She drove her Buick convertible (a gift from her father, a downtown banker) to school all three years...
When I was writing biweekly columns for the Korea Times, I occasionally had to scramble for topics. In November 2019, however, I had one handed to me. I received an e-mail from a lady of Chinese descent living in Seoul. She told me that she and...
I traveled about 15,000 miles in the air and another 1,200 on roads and highways during my recent bi-annual excursion to the Lone Star State. A streamlined version of what happened is as follows. In the weeks leading up to it, I had two Covid...
It was the late 1950s and early 1960s. Like other boys in my east Dallas neighborhood, I chose “favorite” athletes in the main sports. Mine were Paul Hornung (Green Bay Packers) in football, Eddie Matthews (Milwaukee Braves) in baseball and Elgin...
A couple of videos and a Reuters new story about Nokdo, an island in the Yellow Sea, really got my attention. All painted a rather bleak picture of population decline within a span of less than five decades. Made up of a single compact village...
Home since February 1, 2009 has been room 301 in the Yesung Life Officetel. It is located just southeast of Gangnam Station, where 110,000 people board the subway and another 110,000 alight from it every day. A creature of habit, I do not visit...
My ancestors—at least on the paternal side—came from a small village named Pennington in Cumbria, located in northwestern England. Presbyterians, they crossed the water to the Isle of Man and then on to Ireland. They lived a few generations among...
“I was brought up in the greatest country in the world. Patriotism isn’t a matter of flag-waving but of work ethic and respect for authority.” That line came from an interview with Dick Young who covered sports—mostly baseball and boxing—in a...
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