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Saturday, June 11, 2011
From The Archives: The NYC Slides, Part 2
By Jack Brummet
Chief Archivist
A couple of months ago, I began scanning a box of slides we have from the years 1973 to around 1983. I posted them on Facebook because many of the surviving subjects/participants are on there. I always intended to also put them on All This Is That. And, now, I am finally getting around to it. This new batch is from the years we lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn (1977-1982). Coming next, Bellingham, Seattle, and Europe.
Chief Archivist
A couple of months ago, I began scanning a box of slides we have from the years 1973 to around 1983. I posted them on Facebook because many of the surviving subjects/participants are on there. I always intended to also put them on All This Is That. And, now, I am finally getting around to it. This new batch is from the years we lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn (1977-1982). Coming next, Bellingham, Seattle, and Europe.
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Jerry, Vicki, Kevin in the garden next doot yo 158 W. 84th St.
collaped lung/double pneumonia, 1977
Frances, 1978, in NYC
Jack, Cheryl, and Keelin outside a cabaret
Colin and Karen ??, NYC, 1977
Vicki and Jack on the subway
Pinky and Jack at work @ Carl Fischer, 62 Cooper Square
Keelin at a dairy restaurant in Chelsea?
Jack, Julius Caesar, and Kevin/Franco
Jack and Jack at 158 W 84th St
Colin Curran, 1966
Jack on the Brooklyn Promenade with WTC in the background
Keelin on our rooftop of our loft at 351 Jay Street
Vicki, Jack, and Jerry at 158
Jack and Mary Durkan-Jones outside our apartment on Chrystie Street near The Bowery
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Friday, June 10, 2011
From The Archives: The NYC Slides, Part 1
By Jack Brummet
Chief Archivist
A couple of months ago, I began scanning a box of slides we have from the years 1973 to around 1983. I posted them on Facebook because many of the surviving subjects/participants are on there. I always intended to also put them on All This Is That. And, now, I am finally getting around to it. This first batch is from the years we lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn (1977-1982).
Chief Archivist
A couple of months ago, I began scanning a box of slides we have from the years 1973 to around 1983. I posted them on Facebook because many of the surviving subjects/participants are on there. I always intended to also put them on All This Is That. And, now, I am finally getting around to it. This first batch is from the years we lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn (1977-1982).
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Parade in Brooklyn, shot from our fire escape at 324 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
Franco, Claudia Curran, Nick, and me at President Nixon's brownstone, 1980
Jack and Franco, late at night on the UWS
Me, Nick, and Franco on our stoop on West 84th Street
Me with a wonderful painting Pinky and Cheryl Loaned us for the entire time we lived on 84th St
Jerry Melin and Jan, Upper West Side, 1981
Me, with my gal and my pal. In heaven, or what?
Keelin, across the street from our apartment in Brooklyn
Keelin, Jan, and Jack in Brooklyn
Franco posing near faux armor, NYC
Franco and Nick outside a theatre in NY?
Nick, Franco, Jack, and Topiary
Miya (heart)
'Moto. but not quote sure where...it probablyis not Manhattan
'Moto, Nick, Kevin, and Jack on our stoop @ 158 W. 84th St. NYC
Nick, 'Moto, and Franco aka Kevin
Sean, on our fire escape at the Atlantic Avenue Parade
Pinky, turning Japanese.
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Thursday, June 09, 2011
An angry letter to President Harry S. Truman, and an angry letter he seemed to take to heart
By Jack Brummet
Democratic Party Affairs Editor
This angry letter was sent to President Harry Truman in 1953 by George Banning's father. Banning was killed serving in the Korean War.
I'm sure Presidents at war get letters like this all the time. Now, HST had a pretty thick skin, but something in this letter must have gotten under his skin. When HST died some 20 years later, the letter--along with the Purple Heart Mr. Banning sent--was found in his desk.
Scan of this letter is courtesy of the Truman Library.
Democratic Party Affairs Editor
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This angry letter was sent to President Harry Truman in 1953 by George Banning's father. Banning was killed serving in the Korean War.
I'm sure Presidents at war get letters like this all the time. Now, HST had a pretty thick skin, but something in this letter must have gotten under his skin. When HST died some 20 years later, the letter--along with the Purple Heart Mr. Banning sent--was found in his desk.
Scan of this letter is courtesy of the Truman Library.
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Alien Lore No. 208 - a sketch of two UFOs from Great Britain
This sketch is one of many documents the British government released in the last couple of years from their vast collection of UFO files.
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Ruins: The Temple of Apollo at Corinth, and the Corinth Canal
By Jack Brummet, Travel Editor
This is a photo from our first trip to Greece. It is a distant view, at dusk, of the ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Corinth. And one of the first (of many) ruins I would visit over the next 30 years. As beautiful as this is, Corinth is also the site of the pretty amazing Canal of Corinth (see photo below), which was completed in 1893. It is a pretty amazing thing to see--and think about what they had to do in the late 19th century to remove all that rock.
After 14 months without visiting any ruins or ancient sites, I am getting itchy feet...
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This is a photo from our first trip to Greece. It is a distant view, at dusk, of the ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Corinth. And one of the first (of many) ruins I would visit over the next 30 years. As beautiful as this is, Corinth is also the site of the pretty amazing Canal of Corinth (see photo below), which was completed in 1893. It is a pretty amazing thing to see--and think about what they had to do in the late 19th century to remove all that rock.
After 14 months without visiting any ruins or ancient sites, I am getting itchy feet...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Glenn Beck, Anthony Weiner, John Boehner and remembering back to when Edmund Muskie's crying speech ended his Presidential campaign
By Jack Brummet, Social Mores Editor
This is the year of the weeper, isn't it? Thinking about Congressman Anthony Weiner's tear-filled confession/press conference today, it reminded me of a couple of other public weepers on the other side of the aisle--Glenn Beck and Speaker of the House John Boehner.
When did it become OK for politicians to cry? It wasn't so long ago (it happened in the first election in which I could vote) when public boo-hooing ended Edmund Muskie's candidacy for President.
I guess Senator Muskie was just ahead of his time.
The "Canuck letter" was a bogus letter to the editor (the notorious William Loeb) of the Manchester Union Leader, published just two weeks before the 1972 New Hampshire primary. The letter implied that candidate Senator Muskie was prejudiced against French-Canadian Americans (an important constituency in Maine). The letter writer claimed to have met Muskie and his staff in Florida and asked The Senator how he could understand the problems of African Americans, given Maine's almost non-existent black population. According to the letter, a staffer responded, "Not blacks, but we have Canucks." Muskie laughed at the remark.
After the letter appeared, Muskie gave a speech in front of the Union Leader's office that came to be known in political circles as "the crying speech." In The Crying Speech, Muskie called publisher William Loeb a liar and took him to task for slurring the character of his wife Jane (the paper had also written that she was a heavy drinker and had a foul mouth). Network news and the newspapers reported that Muskie wept openly during the speech. David Broder, in The Washington Post, wrote that Muskie "broke down three times in as many minutes"; The CBS Evening News showed unflattering photos of Muskie's face at, or near, weeping. No doubt helping unhinge Muskie was the fact that William Loeb had previously baited Muskie, calling him "Moscow Muskie," and a flip-flopper.
According to the Wikipedia (and I remember him saying this at the time), "Muskie later stated that what had appeared to the press as tears were actually melted snowflakes, the press reported that Muskie broke down and cried, shattering the candidate's image as calm and reasoned."
Marilyn Berger, a Washington Post staff writer, wrote that White House staffer Ken Clawson once bragged to her about authoring the letter, which Clawson immediately denied. In October 1972, FBI investigators said that the Canuck Letter was part of a dirty tricks campaign against Democrats orchestrated by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP). Loeb, publisher of the Manchester Union Leader, always said that the letter was not a fabrication (but he later had some doubts about its veracity). The alleged letter writer, one Paul Morrison of Deerfield Beach, FLA was never tracked down, if he ever existed at all.
This is the year of the weeper, isn't it? Thinking about Congressman Anthony Weiner's tear-filled confession/press conference today, it reminded me of a couple of other public weepers on the other side of the aisle--Glenn Beck and Speaker of the House John Boehner.
When did it become OK for politicians to cry? It wasn't so long ago (it happened in the first election in which I could vote) when public boo-hooing ended Edmund Muskie's candidacy for President.
I guess Senator Muskie was just ahead of his time.
The "Canuck letter" was a bogus letter to the editor (the notorious William Loeb) of the Manchester Union Leader, published just two weeks before the 1972 New Hampshire primary. The letter implied that candidate Senator Muskie was prejudiced against French-Canadian Americans (an important constituency in Maine). The letter writer claimed to have met Muskie and his staff in Florida and asked The Senator how he could understand the problems of African Americans, given Maine's almost non-existent black population. According to the letter, a staffer responded, "Not blacks, but we have Canucks." Muskie laughed at the remark.
After the letter appeared, Muskie gave a speech in front of the Union Leader's office that came to be known in political circles as "the crying speech." In The Crying Speech, Muskie called publisher William Loeb a liar and took him to task for slurring the character of his wife Jane (the paper had also written that she was a heavy drinker and had a foul mouth). Network news and the newspapers reported that Muskie wept openly during the speech. David Broder, in The Washington Post, wrote that Muskie "broke down three times in as many minutes"; The CBS Evening News showed unflattering photos of Muskie's face at, or near, weeping. No doubt helping unhinge Muskie was the fact that William Loeb had previously baited Muskie, calling him "Moscow Muskie," and a flip-flopper. According to the Wikipedia (and I remember him saying this at the time), "Muskie later stated that what had appeared to the press as tears were actually melted snowflakes, the press reported that Muskie broke down and cried, shattering the candidate's image as calm and reasoned."
When The Senator was outed as a weeper, he was, natch, thought to be emotionally and dangerously unstable ("is this who you want negotiating the fate of the world with Leonid Brezhnev?"  New Hampshire Democrats began to defect to George McGovern. Although Muskie beat McGovern 46% to 37%, the margin was far smaller than his campaign had predicted. McGovern now had momentum, and by the time of the Florida primary, Ed Muskie, the one-time front-runner, was Dead Man Walking. |
Marilyn Berger, a Washington Post staff writer, wrote that White House staffer Ken Clawson once bragged to her about authoring the letter, which Clawson immediately denied. In October 1972, FBI investigators said that the Canuck Letter was part of a dirty tricks campaign against Democrats orchestrated by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP). Loeb, publisher of the Manchester Union Leader, always said that the letter was not a fabrication (but he later had some doubts about its veracity). The alleged letter writer, one Paul Morrison of Deerfield Beach, FLA was never tracked down, if he ever existed at all.
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Monday, June 06, 2011
Anthony Weiner: Dead Man Walking
In his delayed press conference this afternoon, Congressman Anthony Weiner said basically: I lied multiple times. I did it all. But, I'm not resigning.
#deadmanwalking
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Sunday, June 05, 2011
Saturday, June 04, 2011
The vicissitudes of a train-wreck, or a project gone south
By Mona Goldwater, Business Editor
It's true. I don't know how it works in your business, but out-of-control projects really can, and do, end up sludging through these, or similar, stages:
It's true. I don't know how it works in your business, but out-of-control projects really can, and do, end up sludging through these, or similar, stages:
- Uncritical Acceptance
- Wild Enthusiasm
- Dejected Disillusionment
- Total Confusion
- Search for the Guilty
- Punishment of the Innocent
- Promotion of the Non-participants
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