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...
A few blocks north of the UT Law School sits 3103 Benelva Drive. Now a vacant lot, it held an old wooden duplex with a carport when I lived there in 1982. The ground-level apartment in which I resided was quite small. My friend Brian Ullom...
Just across the street from Halla Classic is Harrington Tower. Its basement is given over to a series of restaurants, one of which is Oh Han Soo Beef Noodles. I have had lunch there many a time. But I noticed that its manager, 29-year-old Han...
Sometimes I think back to those days, especially between 1962 and 1965, when I sat in a circle with a dozen or so other children in a Sunday School class at Casa Linda Presbyterian Church in Dallas. Who was our teacher? Did she—such teachers were...
“Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen, mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.” Those words were spoken by Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators, who had a heck of a fastball himself. Wood (Boston Red Sox and...
There was no reason to shade the truth when I wrote about Christian McCaffrey of the Carolina Panthers in 2020. I opined that he was then the top running back in the NFL and—on the basis of his first three seasons—the finest White runner the...
We would not expect the feeble, octogenarian POTUS to abandon the White House or the British prime minister to leave 10 Downing Street, or the Philippine president to quit Malacañang Palace or Kenya’s president to desert the State House or the...
Yong Yoon, Jeong Choong-jae and I hope to convince some enterprising Americans to come here and do a movie based on Mr. Jeong’s 2010 book Golden Lily Operation. Why not? Yamashita: The Tiger’s Treasure premiered 20 years ago and did quite well...
In President Richard Nixon’s memoirs, he wrote thus of Charles Colson: “His instinct for the political jugular and ability to get things done made him a lightning rod for my own political frustrations…. When I complained to Colson, I felt...
I played church baseball with Kevin Nietmann in Dallas nearly six decades ago. After high school graduation, I went to Austin and he went to Annapolis. Not only is Kevin an alumnus of the U.S. Naval Academy, he is also an arch-conservative. That...
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