As a sixth-grader at Victor Hexter Elementary School in Dallas, I wasn’t too hip. If I had been, I would have invested $5.50 to see the somewhat long-haired Beatles sing, stomp and shout at Memorial Auditorium on September 18, 1964. To do...
I had met five University of Texas presidents—Drs. Norman Hackerman, William Cunningham, William Livingston, Robert Berdahl and William Powers—and the sixth would be Dr. Gregory Fenves. He was going to speak to a gathering of alumni at Seoul’s...
I am a sucker for a good historical episode, and this is one. Please allow me to summarize. On April 15, 1885, three British warships (HMS Agamemnon, HMS Pegasus and HMS Firebrand) and two transport ships steamed out of Nagasaki and headed west...
I was a first-semester freshman at the University of Texas in the fall of 1971, doing my best to maintain some degree of equilibrium on that huge campus. My home, and that of 3,200 others, was Jester Center. While walking through an outdoor...
I do not mean to criticize John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Warren Buffett or Bill Gates. They gave away (Buffett and Gates continue to do so) untold millions, even billions of dollars for various causes, including...
I had been to Incheon before—once for a baseball game (the hometown SK Wyverns vs. the Nexen Heroes) at Munhak Stadium, once to visit friends and once to join a group catching a ferry up to Baengnyeong Island. But those were just brief visits in...
I like to say that since moving to Korea 10-plus years ago, I have come to disregard big-time sports. The NBA playoffs? The NCAA Final Four? The World Series? Wimbledon? The Indy 500? The Olympics? University of Texas football? The passion I long...
June 6 is a national holiday in Korea, when people (are supposed to) pause and reflect about the sacrifices made during the 6-25 War, as it is usually called here. Of course, June 25 is the day in 1950 when Kim Il-Sung’s soldiers, with Soviet and...
George Halas was certainly in the twilight of his pro football career—player, coach and owner—in the mid-1960s. He had his critics, even though the Chicago Bears had won the NFL championship in 1963. Papa Halas fully understood that drafting...
There are many beautiful women in the Philippines, and I can name a few myself. But the loveliest of all is a stout 78-year-old grandmother named Aida D. Fariscal. A humble housewife, she joined the Manila police force after her husband died in...
There is a fundamental difference between receiving an invitation to somebody’s house, and just walking up and knocking on the door. In the first case, you will most likely be invited in and treated with a measure of respect. While that’s...
Bryan Adams’ two feeder junior high schools are Robert T. Hill and William H. Gaston. According to Google, they are just 3.1 miles apart. I propose to take a quick look at these educational institutions and the men for whom they were named. Since...
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