And then this happened. #Hippos h/t to @ZuluNyala for getting us to @StLuciaTourism w/ @joanniejohnst
Ted loved listening to the radio
An exclusive excerpt of Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”: Growing up, on Saturday afternoons during football season, Ted [Williams] liked to get home in time to listen to the USC games on radio. He loved Irvine “Cotton” Warburton, a San Diego boy who was the team’s All America quarterback in 1933. “On Saturday night we’d listen to Benny Goodman,” Ted recalled. “Swing bands were the thing then. I still prefer swing to anything else.” His favorite radio program was “Gang Busters,” which, in collaboration with J. Edgar Hoover, dramatized closed FBI cases. Originally launched in 1935 and called “G-men,” the show featured dramatic sound effects of screeching tires, police sirens and tommy-guns.
(PHOTO: Ted Williams passing a football at the Navy Pre-Flight School, 1943. North Carolina Collection, UNC at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library.)
That's my friend @BillBrettBoston and his brother the amazing photographer Harry Brett at a showing of visual artist Vincent Crotty's work #BillBrettBoston #NotMyPhoto
At the @AmericanRep's Loeb, ahem, theater, Diane Paulus introducing Teller, the normally wordless half of the famed magic duo: "...he was working on the Scottish play." Teller: "Macbeth!" Paulus: "Only a magician could get away with that!"
Scored a copy of Bob Ryan's "Scribe," due out in October from Bloomsbury. #bea14 #beahappy2read
#meg @bluemoonnortheast That's the path to you. #WaterWaterWaterEverywhere #waders
Apologies to all for the @thetonyawards overload that is going to happen tonight. @lindahollidayofficial can you let me know if Miss Mass has a good night?
These are my neighbors for the next few days. Bunch a party animals. #stayoffhislawn #15feetaway
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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