day he died. He called me to say: "Hi, Mom! I just called to say I love you. Got go to work. Bye." He gave me something to (8) forever. If there is any (9) to write about Jim's death , maybe it is to make others appreciate more of life and to have people, especially...
A friend of Luce's father introduced them to W. H. Eaton, the publisher ofWorld's Work. He later recalled: "I spent a full afternoon with those fellows going over their first dummy, discussing their editorial philosophy. They certainly were intense about the whole thing, and Hadden seemed ...
They're helped by the fact that most people don't understand the grab-bag nature of the Democratic Party of the time. During Kennedy's day the coalition ostensibly included everyone from social democrats to segregationists. By 1968 it would fall apart, but in the early '60s it still held ...
It's been 50 years a cold and sunny November day in 1963 became such a nightmare that tens of millions of Americans can still tell you exactly where they were when they heard the news. For R.C. Nelson, the memories of the day Camelot died are still crystal clear. (Disclosure: R.C....
In the case of JFK Jr. the grief was not for the man, whose accomplishments were quite modest when compared to his father and whose death was blamed on his own poor judgment, but rather for the young boy saluting the funeral cortege of his slain father. Public mourning was extensively or...
private life (including the aforementioned marriage to Joe DiMaggio) as well as for performances in such Hollywood blockbusters asGentlemen Prefer Blondes(1953) andThe Seven Year Itch(1955),Marilyn Monroewas an actor, singer, and pop culture icon. She died in 1962 after an overdose of ...
McConaughey proposed on Christmas Day in 2011, and they were married on June 9, 2012, at their home in Austin, Texas. Their third child was born later that year. 39. Julia Roberts and Danny Moder Photo: Kevin Mazur | Getty Images for CORE Gala Julia Roberts has starred in some of the...
“John, we hardly knew ya,” was said of JFK when his life, both personal and political, was cut short. No one should ever hope for such end for anybody. But, Joe, who are are you? I mean, I would really love to love you. Really. Quite some time ago, I was a card-carrying...
VATICAN (www.LeoHohmann.com) -- The Argentine Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio, aka Pope Francis, died Monday morning, the Vatican announced. He was 88. The Vatican said Francis’s cause of death was heart failure due to a stroke. Here's my [analysis], including what to look for as the ...
President had been assassinated, an Administration was finished, a family had been decimated and a friend of mine had died. But when all was said and done in those sad days, the focus fell on the family and the question of how it would fare in a world grown worshipful--and brutally ...