"Marjorie" is about her grandma, opera singer Marjorie Finlay; "The Last Great American Dynasty" is about Rebekah Harkness, the woman who once owned Swift's Rhode Island house; "Starlight" is thought to be about Ethel Kennedy. Fans have a theory that "The Bolter," a song on "The Tortu...
Bobby Kennedy was not an unknown in Washington politics. He had made a name for himself in 1957-1959 while serving as chief counsel to the U.S. Senate’s Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management, familiarly known as the “Senate Rackets Committee.” His brother, John,...
Russian agents trying to wrest anti-anti-missile blueprints from Cape Kennedy would not have been more violently sinister than these rag-trade gentlemen eager to make a wholesale deal on the Continent. While commending their zeal to break into the export market, I hardly think the Board of Trad...
What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism. —Rand Paul 81...
Kennedy nevertheless vowed to equip the U.S. military with the necessary means to retaliate if attacked. Kennedy warned the Soviet Union against getting involved in the U.N. establishment of peace and independence in the Congo. The Bay of Pigs invasion took place in Cuba on April 17, 1961,...
Fred and Ethel Off-Screen Lucy and Rickywere married in real life. They were one of the first mixed-race couples to be seen on television. Is anyone from I Love Lucy still alive? Keith Thibodeaux(born December 1, 1950), also known as Richard Keith, is an American former child actor an...
The oceanfront restaurant with a “vacation cuisine” menu was among the first new establishments to open in the city that Bruce Springsteen had lamented in song as in “ruins.” It was a key part of a rebirth along the east side of Asbury. ...
J.F. Kennedy's table, by mistake. She was that elegant- simply tailored, slim as a pipe and stunning. They must have thought Leonce was a Secret Service man lurking along. He actually punched her out after dinner one night in Manhattan, in front of Al Kocab, the illustrator. Kay ...
The oceanfront restaurant with a “vacation cuisine” menu was among the first new establishments to open in the city that Bruce Springsteen had lamented in song as in “ruins.” It was a key part of a rebirth along the east side of Asbury. ...