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Historian Frederick Lewis Allen, who would go on to write the definitive history of the 1920s in his bestselling Only Yesterday (1931), offered some tongue-in-cheek advice on how the average American could contribute to renewed economic prosperity. An excerpt: Howard Brubaker also finished the ...
BABY BLUES…Two-year old Baby LeRoy (Ronald Le Roy Overacker)played the annoying foil toW.C. Fieldsin three films, includingIt’s a Gift(left, with Fields andTammany Young).JamesCurtis’sW.C. Fields: A Biography(2003) quotes directorNorman McLeod:“[Fields] used to swear at the baby so...
Several more statements by the Rabbi were made in Hebrew and several mentions of the baby’s name which had to be corrected. Then the Rabbi took the knife and with a very swift motion he excised the protruding foreskin without the baby even making the slightest motion or even crying out i...
“In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction,” Lewis explains. It is not a hyperbole to describe the Christmas story as fantastic. That is to say, it has all the characteristics of a fantasy. “...
You should feel guilty. I do, anyway. Convenience is not a good reason to participate in exploitation or waste. But guilt is a weak political emotion. In my experience, it can easily lose out to the 3 a.m. realization that Baby Two has soaked through her sleepsack and we need more ...
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. In my childhood brain, little had as much magical allure as the wardrobe through which four young siblings travel in these stories. And I can still conjure the taste of my own version of Turkish Delight; I didn’t know that the stuff actually exi...
It was to illustrate Norman Lewis’s stories set in the late ’40s just north of Barcelona. I went for a week with £900 expenses (riches!), trying to cope with the Spanish Motorways in a little left-hand drive Seat, only having recently passed my driving test. The towns and people...
As for August we pootled about. We drove to Bristol and back for lunch to see Paul and Uca Lewis-Smith (fellow Tall Ship travellers). We had a visit from Beth Windeler’s sister. And we went toNational Alfa Day in Bicester, just the once. ...
Kosinski filmed actual scenes at last year’s British Grand Prix, as well as other races throughout the season, incorporating footage of actors actually behind the wheel of F1 vehicles along with real-life drivers like Lewis Hamilton.In addition to Pitt and Idris,“F1” also boasts a cast ...