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Tickled Pinkerton
Dashiell Hammett's eight years working as a Pinkerton detective (between 1915 an...
Good Question?
While visiting a greenhouse in Dresden one day, Arthur Schopenhauer was approach...
Wake-Up Call?
"When you're on a book tour," Studs Terkel once explained, "you get a little haz...
TGIF?
During a meet and greet one day, Taylor Hanson, perhaps disoriented from a long ...
Walking Toll
William Bowles' daily ride took him along a road which passed through a turnpike...
Jan Masaryk: Mixer
While serving as Czech ambassador to the United States early in his career, Jan ...
Bewildering Distinction
The American artist Chester Harding once painted Daniel Boone's portrait. He ask...
Bucking Bronko
Even among foolball players, Bronko Nagurski was noted for his incredible streng...
Dylan Thomas
One evening, Dylan Thomas, as was his wont, indulged in drink and conversation f...
Repertory Company
The small repertory company in which Leslie Howard began his career put on so ma...
Dizzy Osbourne
One day in 1991, Ozzy Osbourne arrived at a record store for an in-store promoti...
Sordello
Though ostensibly the story of an unknown heir to a dukedom in thirteenth-centur...
Pea Soup Sermon
The scholar and educator Frederick Denison Maurice was always careful to distanc...
Bibliomaniac
Mexican author Ilan Stavans often had so many books, in such apparent disorder, ...
Eighty Years On
On July 9, 1968, the playwright Alan Bennett recorded the following entry in his...
Marshall Blooper
In a memorable NFL football game on October 26, 1964, Minnesota Vikings defensiv...
Hunt-the-Slipper
"Roger Fry was dreamy, vague, incapable of noticing anything but spiritual disco...
Imaginary Landcape
The composer John Cage's Imaginary Landcape No. 4 (1953), never
sounds t...
American Toilets
"Our toilets [in England] are just marked boring old 'Ladies' and 'Gentlemen,'" ...
John Elway: Bad Start
Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway did not get his NFL career off to an auspi...
Sometimes Always
The Hungarian conductor Hans Richter, renowned for his curious turns of phrase, ...
Tailgater (long)
On a chilly morning in 2001, Jonathan Franzen, the subject of a doumentary film,...
Pleasant Lady
In 1979, Lady Diana Cooper (then 86 years old) attended a special event to honor...
Space Odyssey
In 1968, Roger Ebert and a date attended the debut screening of Stanley Kubrick'...
Ham Sandwich?
One day, Meredith Vieira's husband began to get calls from friends:
Filth Mart
At the turn of the millennium, Drea de Matteo and her boyfriend opened a hip urb...
Augean Stability?
The stock market crash in 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression made for an e...
Weasel
Harold Pinter, whose difficult nature was reflected in his writing, was once ask...
Annihilating Farewell
Director Ernst Lubitsch was famed for his curious turns of phrase. "When Lubitsc...
Last Resort
Following her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956, Grace Kelly invited ...
Absent-Minded Morning
G. K. Chesterton was famed for his absent-mindedness. "On rising this morning," ...
Surprise Party?
On her deathbed, Lady Astor momentarily awoke to find herself surrounded by her ...
Billy Connolly & the Pay Ph...
The comedian Billy Connolly once called his manager late at night with a pressin...
Surprise Attack
After attending lectures on Napoleon as a young man, Santa Anna modelled himself...
Menotti's Will
"I have always felt that a man often betrays his friendships in his will," Gian-...
Shady Street
After playing a gig one evening Depeche Mode vocalist Vince Clarke was followed ...
Say What?
In the anthology Popular Music Studies, the hip-hop scholar Ian Maxwell p...
French Patriot
The French physicist Louis De Broglie was of the opinion that foreigners in Fran...
Westmoreland Confused
U.S. General William Westmoreland once hopped to the defense of censorship. "Wit...
Young J.T. LeRoy
J. T. LeRoy - the reclusive writer famed for his books chronicling his dysfuncti...
Unruly Convention
The 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach was so unruly and disorga...
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