Archive: November 2008
"Where's Johnson?"
In researching yesterday's obituary of arts critic Clive Barnes, I found this fun excerpt from Time magazine: A few years ago during the presidency of L.B.J., Dan Sullivan, then second-stringer to Clive Barnes on the New York Times, was sent to Washington, D.C., to cover a play. Stewart Udall, then...
By Adam Bernstein | November 20, 2008; 1:51 PM ET | Comments (0)
What Do Readers Want?
As the end of the year approaches, we've been discussing whether it's worthwhile to do "Significant Deaths of 2008" story. A story like that is always full of surprises -- deaths you didn't notice during your busy lives, or those you overlooked for a myriad of reasons. Here's a fine...
By Patricia Sullivan | November 19, 2008; 12:03 PM ET | Comments (1)
A Pair of Lefthanders
Two lefthanded baseball pitchers died this week, Preacher Roe and Herb Score. (Our obituary of Score isn't in the paper as of Nov. 12 because we didn't have enough space.) Roe was a crafty pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers during their "Boys of Summer" glory days of the late 1940s...
By Matt Schudel | November 12, 2008; 6:19 AM ET | Comments (0)
The War and the Dead
Evocative story from CNN today about the last remaining veterans from the "war to end all wars." Meanwhile, the war is still being fought in Verdun, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel allegedly "snubbing" a tribute to World War I soldiers after French President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly changed the venue of...
By Adam Bernstein | November 11, 2008; 11:25 AM ET | Comments (0)
John Leonard: His Own Worst Critic
The cultural critic John Leonard died Nov. 5 in New York. He had been many things, including book editor at The New York Times, author of a monthly column on books for Harper's Magazine, a television critic for New York magazine and a media critic for "CBS News Sunday Morning."...
By Adam Bernstein | November 7, 2008; 11:37 AM ET | Comments (1)
A Photog Who Went Anywhere for a Shot
One of the beauties of writing on the Web is that we can share links to research that we can't squeeze into the space that print permits. So it was with much delight that I was able to show links in the obit for Cecil Stoughton which revealed how he...
By Patricia Sullivan | November 6, 2008; 11:42 AM ET | Comments (0)
Key West Legend
If you have ever been to Key West, capital of the Conch Republic, you probably have heard of Captain Tony Tarracino. A saloonkeeper, boat captain, father of 13 and storyteller extraordinaire, his tales included running guns for Cuban mercenaries during the Bay of Pigs invasion. A B-movie, "Cuba Crossing," was...
By Patricia Sullivan | November 4, 2008; 11:01 AM ET | Comments (0)
Obama's Grandmother Dies
Obama's grandmother died today, the day before the election ....
By Patricia Sullivan | November 3, 2008; 4:53 PM ET | Comments (0)
Obama's Nevada campaign director dies
First victim of the 2008 campaign; the 44-year-old Nevada state campaign director for Barack Obama dies of an apparent heart attack....
By Patricia Sullivan | November 3, 2008; 3:50 PM ET | Comments (0)
