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Born on the Eleventh of June [by DL]
Our Birthday (June 11) Dear Beth, Leo, Allan, and Pauline,Lawanda, Sabrina, Deborah,Joshua, Lise, and Christine,Born today, like us, were Jonson, Ben,and Googe, Barnabe, two menof poetic greatness; and how about some confettifor Vanzetti (of…
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Judy Gemini, Born Today: An Astrological Profile [by David Lehman]
Born to sing America’s all-time favorite movie song, Harold Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow,” Judy Garland was as natural a Gemini as you will find – totally binary, loyal to a fault yet fickle, cheerful…
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Judy Gemini, Born Today: An Astrological Profile [by David Lehman]
Born to sing America’s all-time favorite movie song, Harold Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow,” Judy Garland was as natural a Gemini as you will find – totally binary, loyal to a fault yet fickle, cheerful…
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The dash of Lord Byron in “Don Juan”
‘T is pity learnéd virgins ever wedWith persons of no sort of education,Or gentlemen, who, though well born and bred,Grow tired of scientific conversation:I don’t choose to say much upon this head,I’m a plain…
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The dash of Lord Byron in “Don Juan”
‘T is pity learnéd virgins ever wedWith persons of no sort of education,Or gentlemen, who, though well born and bred,Grow tired of scientific conversation:I don’t choose to say much upon this head,I’m a plain…
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Gil Hodges in the Hall of Fame at last
The Dodger great managed the 1969 Mets to the World Champoionship. He would have been 98 on April 4. Great first-baseman, clutch hitter, drove in both runs when the Dodgers won the 7th game…