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Where are the snows of yesteryear (Francois Villon, Ballad) I had a thought the other week. I didn't do anything with it. I should only have a thought in a week or two's time. There was a time

Yep, "old" pretty much nailed it. Ken was none too impressed with the new band of Tarahumara who showed up at the next Leadville. The team captain looked like a Keebler elf who'd taken early

It's probably been a while since Louise Wilkinson of Durham, England, was carded. She's 92, a little bit over the legal drinking age of 18. But it happened just this week. An Amazon driver refused to

I made plenty of grammatical errors but gained points on the structure. Today I turned in my paper on social customs. In it I wrote that on the eve of an American man's wedding, it is customary for

There's no questioning Bob Hope's devotion to his adopted country or his sincerity about keeping the troops entertained. When pressed though, even his friends will grudgingly admit that his camp show

Because of Annie Get Your Gun's eventual triumph, and the starry cast of characters involved in its creation, the show's genesis has passed into Broadway folklore. But in the case of Annie, almost all

In programs involving child poverty, we face a basic choice. Do we invest in the front end, trying to break the cycle of poverty by providing family planning and helping children when they are young

761123 If I were a bell I'd be ringing (Frank Loesser, Guys & Dolls) Almost one century ago in the year 1876, the gentleman who invented the telephone picked up the instrument, said, "hello" to his

Let's be real. Many of us are guilty of keeping library books past their due date. Life happens, you get busy, at least you'll return it within the decade. The Fergus Library in Ontario recently

A joke told to me by a media escort, Frank: Princess Diana and Mother Teresa are in heaven, and the latter isn't too happy. "It isn't fair," she says. "All those years red I lived in squalor,

By today's standards, the comic routines weren't great, but "Honey Chile" had a way of getting a laugh with the dumbest jokes because of her exaggerated Southern accent, and the way she swung her

In Naples audiences of GIs were trucked in from the front just north of Caserta. "The men were brought down in relays to see the show," Alan Manson remembered. "They didn't know what they were

I think therefore I am Rene Descartes Although "I think therefore I am" is the line on which Descartes rose to stardom, the truth of the matter is it's NOT what he actually wrote. So I can't tell

Doc Woodward wasn't drunk. "You're going to kill anyone foolish enough to follow you!" "Tough shit!" Ken shot back. "Maybe killing a few folks will get us back on the map." Shortly before Ken's

When hundreds of homes in a Scottish town lost power this month, residents might have suspected a downed tree or wind. But the culprit was Ron, a bull suffering from what his owner Hazel describes as

Once, when Dorothy Lamour was a guest on The Pepsodent Show, she and Hope were playing a sketch involving two lovers arranging a meeting place. LAMOUR: I'll meet you in front of the pawn shop. Hope

The lack of government support, while terribly cruel, had two other positive consequences. First, it meant that Asian governments had sound finances, running budget surpluses as often as deficits. The

The game is not worth the candle (proverb) A very true proverb, actually. When you earn your living as a writer this proverb soon sort of bears itself strongly upon your thinking. In fact there is

Okay, I thought later that afternoon. Maybe Angel would buffalo us, but I gotta trust the Torch. Angel told us Caballo might be heading to the town of Creel, but we had to hurry: if we didn't catch

Haley Schomburg probably would have spent her 33rd birthday at a party, but of course, she was stuck at home. So her friend Xaris Martinez came up with a way for Haley to get out her frustration, a