Only later, once the story had already dominated rolling news, did people notice that the B on her cheek was backwards: as if she’d stood in front of a mirror and done it to herself. A strange kind of fiction. After all, someone really did carve a B in this woman’s cheek; that...
Though I took it for granted at the time, Jelly’s took the unusual step of bagging all the new comics prior to putting them out on the shelves. I’ve been to few stores since that bagged new issues. Jelly’s also didn’t really go for pull lists and whatever was put out was firs...
two brothers, Louis and John Watson, and their respective wives, Ellen and Mary, began making chocolates in the back room of their soda fountain and luncheonette on Delaware Avenue in Kenmore, NY. Using old-fashioned methods and recipes shared by their ...
1942: Little Golden Books hit the shelves Produced in partnership with Simon & Schuster, the Artists and Writers Guild, and the Western Printing and Lithographing Company, this collection was created to make books more affordable for children everywhere. Coming out in September, these titles (which...
It’s a sad state of affairs that seems to be growing worse by the day. I don’ believe in going backwards, which means looking ahead to a better future. If only I could see it.
But my view is, “Hey, since you guys care about this so deeply—and you have the idealism to say, ‘Let’s do what it takes to get to zero by 2050’—you really deserve to have a plan where you work backwards and say, ‘Okay, what has to happen to steel and cement and aviati...
1942: Little Golden Books hit the shelves Produced in partnership with Simon & Schuster, the Artists and Writers Guild, and the Western Printing and Lithographing Company,this collection was created to make booksmore affordable for children everywhere. Coming out in September, these titles (which ...
1942: Little Golden Books hit the shelves Produced in partnership with Simon & Schuster, the Artists and Writers Guild, and the Western Printing and Lithographing Company,this collection was created to make booksmore affordable for children everywhere. Coming out in September, these titles (which ...
(as in "to snap one's fingers"), "elbow", "ginger", "cushion", "firecracker", and so on. And when I say "forget", I mean that they often cannot even put the first stroke down on the paper. Can you imagine a well-educated native English speaker totally forgetting how to write ...
Very few Americans, on the other hand, ever learn to produce a natural calligraphic hand in Chinese that resembles anything but that of an awkward Chinese third-grader. If there were nothing else hard about Chinese, the task of learning to write characters alone would put it in the rogues'...