At one point, the going slow, the surgeon remarked that he wished he had an electric knife. Finally, he switched to a bone saw to finish the job, and at 9:17 p.m., Mountain time, the head of the greatest hitter who ever lived had been sliced off.
From “The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams,” by Ben Bradlee Jr., to be published Tuesday, December 3, by Little, Brown and Co. (via mcdermott451)
how'd they get this photo of my house?
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Why wait in line @ #bea15 - and have to carry another book - when you can shop local @BrooklineBooksmith for #PaoloBacigalupi #books #bookexpo #fiction @aaknopf
Important stuff.
Who really makes money in streaming music? This is the contract Sony doesn’t want you to see.
That's famed photographer #PeterSimon taking grabbing a shot of Charlie Colin, Carly Simon #SallyTaylor and Danny of Foster Children at the @Consenses opening dinner
You had ONE job! #SuperHeroFail #captainamerica #hawkeye #ChristmasShoppingWithFanboys
some of the #beer caps from the brews I "sampled" while in So. Africa. Just doing my job...
things can work out…books are not dead…well, they are dead trees, but not dead as a business.
And then we saw him. Handsome boyo. @ZuluNyala
The book is at #bea15 but @dickflavin isn't. Come July, #RedSoxRhymes will be everywhere
Just some musings and electronic gatherings of an ink-stained wretch turned social media junkie. As JADAL says: No trees were destroyed in the sending of this organic message. I do concede, however, a significant number of electrons may have been inconvenienced.
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