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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 04ffad5 | He was born Feb. 10, 1893, in New York's Lower East Side. At 17 he learned to play the piano, beginning his musical career in the beer gardens of old Coney Island, picking out tunes for $25 a week. In Terry Walsh's club he played while a waiter named Eddie Cantor sang. By 1916 he had assembled a small Dixieland combo for the Club Alamo in Harlem. There he met Eddie Jackson, who was to become his partner. In 1923 he and Jackson opened the Cl.. | John Dunning | ||
| edbbe70 | Dr. Benjamin Ordway, the hero of Crime Doctor, was one of radio's classic amnesia cases. Originally a criminal himself, he lost his memory after a blow on the head. With the help of a kind doctor, he built a new life and a new identity, studying medicine and eventually going into psychiatry. When Dr. Ordway regained his memory, his new life was complete: he decided to specialize in criminal psychology because of his understanding of the cri.. | John Dunning | ||
| 3f3f09c | As early as 1953 there was talk of television. Perhaps Macdonnell saw the writing on the wall when he told the press that "our show is perfect for radio," that Gunsmoke confined by a picture couldn't possibly be as authentic or attentive to detail. Behind the scenes, he was intrigued. If the cast could be left intact (a major problem, for the once-slender Bill Conrad had ballooned in recent years, giving him an appearance far different from.. | John Dunning | ||
| b47c537 | Some questions were years old, and as the jackpots grew, so did the difficulty of finding people who had now moved elsewhere. Some winners never were found. | John Dunning | ||
| 035044b | A far more serious loss that year was Oscar Levant, who left as Maurice Zolotow reported, "when a series of arguments with Golenpaul culminated in a fistfight." | John Dunning | ||
| d28e45d | Hawk Larabee was radio's first half-hearted attempt at an adult western drama, a concept that was not fully realized until the arrival of Gunsmoke five years later. | John Dunning | ||
| d16b1d3 | Adams, then in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, could only appear in the premiere program. He died in 1960; Levant in 1972; Golenpaul in 1974; Kieran in 1981. Fadiman became chairman of the Book-of-the-Month Club board of judges and went on with his literary | John Dunning | ||
| 5222245 | Family Theater was created by Father Patrick Peyton of the Holy Cross Fathers in an effort to promote family unity and prayer. Initially it was seen as a forum to broadcast the Rosary: when the networks refused to allow such a narrow one-denominational appeal, Peyton broadened the scope, made it a weekly drama, added the glamor of Hollywood, and saved the "message" for the slots normally reserved for commercials. Throughout the ten-year run.. | John Dunning | ||
| 0055a70 | This much is certain. In April 1930, Radio Station WGHP in Detroit was purchased by John King and George W. Trendle, partners who had just liquidated a chain of movie theaters. They planned to make the station "the last word in radio," and soon changed the call letters to WXYZ, to reflect this motto." | John Dunning | ||
| b590504 | Lincoln Highway offered the kind of dramatic stories usually reserved for prime time, and thus began a trend toward quality programming on Saturday mornings. The stories were of people scattered along the 3,000-mile length of U.S. Route 30, which stretched from Philadelphia to Portland and was popularly known as the Lincoln Highway. Most surprising, even to radio insiders, was the long line of top performers willing to appear at that time o.. | John Dunning | ||
| 8df9477 | Joyce Jordan progressed slowly from Girl Interne to M.D., the change becoming complete around 1942. But the theme of a woman's difficulty in a man's world remained. In the earliest days it was a progression of suitors. Then Joyce faced the "necessity of choosing between a brilliant career as a physician or becoming the wife of a wealthy man," hospital trustee Neil Reynolds. At last, married to foreign correspondent Paul Sherwood, Joyce foun.. | John Dunning | ||
| 0def41e | Bill was a gentle soul but had more than his share of murders to solve. The serial bore all the Hummert trademarks: devious, treacherous villains, cunning and conniving women, and the simplistic overidentification of characters through heavy-handed narration and dialogue. Through it all Bill remained a pillar of integrity, "the salt of the earth," as described by Arthur Hughes, the actor who played the role all the way. "He looked for integ.. | John Dunning | ||
| 73203ef | MAJOR HOOPLE, situation comedy, based on the comic strip Our Boarding House, by Gene Ahern. | John Dunning | ||
| fa4b84d | About a month before the handover of sovereignty, Joshua Paul, a young CPA staffer, typed up a joke on his computer and sent it to a few friends in the palace. The recipients forwarded it to their friends, who did the same thing. In less than a week, almost everyone in the Green Zone had seen it. QUESTION: Why did the Iraqi chicken cross the road? CPA: The fact that the chicken crossed the road shows that decision-making authority has switc.. | Rajiv Chandrasekaran | ||
| 0273cca | An alpinist, I already know, is a climber of mountains by difficult routes, by technical routes: real climbing to summits like this one. The ice hammer itself is a key to the world of legends that I've dreamed of in my fading boyhood: the world of climbers like Reinhold Messner, Hermann Buhl, Riccardo Cassin, Walter Bonatti, and Yvon Chouinard. | Steve House | ||
| 744b5cd | Even if he or she isn't aware of it, every individual spends an entire lifetime creating and evolving a personal image that others perceive. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| 08957e7 | In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. Studying | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| 1b21249 | It was also clear that in order to survive at this game, we had to get serious. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| e368788 | If you focus on the process of climbing, you'll end up on the summit. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| 79982bf | After we had pondered our responsibilities and financial liabilities, one day it dawned on me that I was a businessman and would probably be one for a long time. It was also clear that in order to survive at this game, we had to get serious. I also knew that I would never be happy playing by the normal rules of business; I wanted to distance myself as far as possible from those pasty-faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If .. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| acca4c5 | A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| 607b705 | use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| 68e1596 | To re-create the entrepreneurial atmosphere of the sort we'd had at Chouinard Equipment, we broke the line into eight categories and hired eight product czars to manage them. Each was responsible for his or her own product development, marketing, inventory, quality control, and coordination with the three sales channels--wholesale, mail order, and retail. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| 777689e | Why is a worm so effective? Because it is always moving. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| 5e4fbab | Once you lose the discipline of functionality as a design guidepost, the imagination runs amok. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| b6441cb | May your Valentine's Day be filled with adoration, pampering, and a pair of gorgeous, tiny-heeled Jimmy Choo sandals that are completely useless in this weather. Just remember: You are totally worth it. | life valentines-day worth | Cecily Von Ziegesar | |
| b842653 | But I like labels," she admitted. "They make everything so much clearer." Her sister Bree always told her she liked things to be wrapped up too neatly, and that part of the point of life was its messiness, its refusal to be wrapped up. Brett always took the advice with a grain of salt--it was probably Bree's excuse for a messy room, or for breaking up with boys she'd dated without actually telling them." | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 30874e5 | Maybe growing up was just about becoming closer to the person you always were. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 54246fd | She didn't want to be one of those girls who said the exact opposite of what she meant, but still--it would have been nice to see Easy try. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| e4e576e | Tinsley felt like a puppeteer playing with her marionettes, holding all the strings. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| a9454e7 | Great fiction tells unknown truths. Great film goes further. Great film improves Truth. After all, what Truth ever made $40 million in its first weekend of wide release? | Jess Walter | ||
| 818bab3 | Bit yells, Homeless Hungry? Dude, I invented Homeless Hungry. The kid just waves. | Jess Walter | ||
| 139bd2f | Stories are nations, empires. | Jess Walter | ||
| 32cff0c | Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story . . . your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for a while, we're less alone. | Jess Walter | ||
| b4d8ac0 | This is a love story, Michael Deane says. But, really, what isn't? Doesn't the detective love the mystery, or the chase, or the nosy female reporter, who is even now being held against her wishes at an empty warehouse on the waterfront? Surely the serial murderer loves his victims, and the spy loves his gadgets or his country or the exotic counterspy. The ice trucker is torn between his love for ice and truck, and the competing chefs go cra.. | Jess Walter | ||
| 42d450a | And we want car wrecks. We say we don't. But we love them. To look is to love. A thousand people drive past the statue of David. Two hundred look. A thousand people drive past a car wreck. A thousand look. | Jess Walter | ||
| 58246c5 | Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it. | publicity rumors scandal | Jess Walter | |
| 1205c4c | How do you think it should end?" Young Pasquale considered the question. "Well, instead of going back to America during the war, he could go to Germany and try to kill Hitler." "Ah," Alvis Bender said. "Yes. That is exactly what happens, Pasquale. He gets drunk at a party and everyone warns him not to drive, but he makes a giant scene leaving the party and he jumps in his car and accidentally drives over Hitler." | Jess Walter | ||
| 98c8e09 | She laughed. 'That's what I love about you good-lookin' blokes. What, me? Have sex? | Jess Walter | ||
| 0647817 | Even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight? | Jess Walter | ||
| 63ec105 | It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do you know what I mean, Pasquale? | Jess Walter | ||
| 49231b1 | People can handle an unjust world; it's when the world becomes arbitrary and inexplicable that order breaks down. | Jess Walter | ||
| a656905 | my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the brokers and financial planners to keep them from offing themselves) | finance humor suicide | Jess Walter | |
| 172926f | What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret? | Jess Walter |