"Politics and business don't mix, but pure politics is
big business." Father's Day, a novel by John Calvin
Batchelor
John
Calvin Batchelor (born 1948) is an American author and
host of The
John Batchelor Show radio news magazine. Based
at WABC radio in New York for five years from early 2001 to
September 2006, the show was syndicated nationally on the ABC radio network.
On October 7, 2007, Batchelor returned to radio on WABC, and later to
other large market stations on a weekly basis.
See bibliography at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Batchelor
Arkansas Traveler or Arkansas
Traveller may refer to:
Arkansas Traveler (Michelle Shocked album); Arkansas
Traveler (Breetles album) (1987), by the
Breetles; The Arkansas Traveler (film), a 1938 American comedy
film; "The Arkansas Traveler" (song),
a fiddle tune by Sanford Faulkner; Arkansas Traveller (painting), an 1858 painting by
Edward Payson Washburn; The Arkansas Traveler (newspaper), student newspaper of
the University of Arkansas; Arkansas Traveler (radio show), a bluegrass program
on WDET, Detroit, Michigan; The Arkansas Traveler, the original title of The Bob Burns Show; Arkansas Traveler, a Faustian western written by
Sean Bridgers; "The Arkansas Traveler", nickname and stage persona of Bob Burns; Arkansas Traveler (boat line) made by the Southwest Manufacturing
Co. of Little Rock, Arkansas; Arkansas Traveler tomato, a variety of
heirloom tomato; Arkansas
Traveler (honorary title), a title
of honor bestowed by the
State of Arkansas; Arkansas Travelers, a minor league baseball team
in Little Rock, Arkansas; Kit, the Arkansas Traveler, 1868
stage play https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Traveler
A Face in the Crowd was a 1957 movie
drama based on the short story, “Your
Arkansas Traveler,” written by Budd Schulberg. It concerns a fictional Arkansas native, its
opening scenes were set in northeast Arkansas, and it was filmed on location in Piggott (Clay County) using
local residents as extras. The film
marked the screen debut of Andy Griffith and Lee Remick, along with being
Walter Matthau and Tony Franciosa’s first major roles. It is significant for its prophetic theme of
the cult of celebrity, the power of television, and the merging of
entertainment and politics. Writer Budd
Wilson Schulberg and director Elia Kazan had previously worked together on the
film, On the Waterfront (1954),
based on Schulberg’s script. Both men
had testified in the televised House Committee on Un-American Activities
hearings in 1952, with controversial results. (Kazan admitted to being a former Communist Party
member and named other members he knew.) They decided to make another movie together,
based on Schulberg’s short story, “Your Arkansas Traveler,” showing the new
medium of television’s power to make or break a performer or a politician. “Your Arkansas Traveler” was the first story
in Schulberg’s collection of short stories, Some Faces in the Crowd (1953).
Schulberg reworked the story for the
movie, to be called A Face in the
Crowd, with a few changes: the heroine’s name, Marcia Coulihan in the
story, was changed to Marcia Jeffries for the film; she meets Larry “Lonesome”
Rhodes in the fictitious Pickett, Arkansas, in the movie (Fox, Wyoming, in the
story), and while the short story ends with Lonesome’s death, the film ends on
a more cautionary note, with Lonesome still alive and his resurgence predicted
by a press agent.
The United States Treasury Department is entrusted with a broad range of
duties and functions. In addition to
monetary functions such as budgets, taxes, and currency production and
circulation, Treasury also oversees critical functions in enforcement, economic
policy development, and international treaty negotiation, just to name a
few. The first Secretary of the Treasury
was Alexander Hamilton, serving from Sep. 11, 1789
- Jan. 31, 1795. Find a list of names,
along with who appointed them, at http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1213.html
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first to appear on television when he opened
the New York World's Fair in 1939. He
was the first President to appoint a woman, Frances Perkins, as a Cabinet
member (Secretary of Labor.) He was also the first President to have a
Presidential plane. John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic elected President. He was also the first President who was a Boy
Scout. The first President to resign
from office was Richard Milhous
Nixon. Jimmy Carter was the first
President to be born in a hospital. Ronald Reagan was the first President
to have been divorced and the first to wear contact lenses. Bill Clinton was the first President to
be a Rhodes Scholar. Find other presidential firsts at http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/presidents/firsts.htm See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Presidential_firsts
" 'Come over,' he said. 'I'll order in Chinese.' 'You speak Chinese now?' " " . . . in the way that theatres
extracted a phrase like 'wonderful drama' from the sentence 'A wonderful drama
this is not.' " The Finkler
Question, a novel by Howard Jacobson
Born in Manchester,
England in 1942, novelist and broadcaster Howard
Jacobson was educated at Cambridge University. He lectured at the University of Sydney for
three years before returning to England where he taught English at Selwyn
College. https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/howard-jacobson
Turning
the Page by Kathy O. Brozek
We set
out to build the bookstore of the 21st century,” says Praveen Madan, owner of Kepler’s Books,
a retail outlet in Menlo Park, Calif., that serves customers throughout the San
Francisco Peninsula. It was late 2011,
and Madan was leading a small group of Kepler’s supporters who were charting a
plan that would allow the store to survive in a world where the prospects for
brick-and-mortar bookselling looked bleak.
Kepler’s was one of a trio of San Francisco Bay Area
bookstores—including City Lights in San Francisco and Cody’s Books in
Berkeley—that emerged as centers of political and social activism during the
1960s and 1970s. Founded in 1955 by Roy
Kepler, a pacifist who had been a conscientious objector during World War II,
the bookstore served as a gathering point for people in the anti-Vietnam War
movement. In 1980, Roy Kepler’s son,
Clark, took over the shop and led it through a new era. Menlo Park, which had been a sleepy,
middle-class suburb, evolved into an affluent enclave in the heart of Silicon
Valley. The forces of disruption that
helped define the region had begun to sweep over the bookselling business. Bookstore chains like Barnes & Noble and
Borders Books—and later the Internet retailer Amazon, combined with the
emergence of digital books—steadily chipped away at the revenue of independent
bookstores. In 2011, Kepler’s hit a
critical point. “Kepler’s was about to
be shut down, unless there was a reimagining of its future and the role that it
played in its community,” says Madan.
“That bothered me deeply, that this great cultural and intellectual
institution located in Silicon Valley—where there’s no shortage of innovation,
creativity, and capital—would close.”
Madan and his wife, Christin Evans, already operated a bookstore in San
Francisco called Booksmith. Drawing on that experience, and on his
passion for Kepler’s, Madan took up an opportunity to lead a rescue effort for
the Menlo Park store. He formed a
transition team, and in 2012 the team launched a plan to save Kepler’s: It settled the company’s debt via negotiated
payouts to creditors, it put in place a new board of directors, and it
transferred the store’s assets and liabilities to an entity owned by
Madan. The plan instilled new life into
Kepler’s. Each year since 2012, the
store has turned a profit. In its 2015
fiscal year, the store’s annual revenues came to slightly more than $3
million. Among the factors that have
made Kepler’s a sustainable operation, two stand out. First, Madan and his team have built on the
store’s heritage as a place that achieves impact not just as a book retailer
but also as a community center. And
second, they have explored the potential of using a hybrid structure that
combines for-profit and nonprofit elements.
Read
more at https://ssir.org/articles/entry/turning_the_page?utm_content=buffer2a384&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Leonard Cohen,
the Canadian poet and novelist who abandoned a promising literary career to
become one of the foremost songwriters of the contemporary era, has died,
according to an announcement November 10, 2016.
He was 82. Adam Cohen, his son
and producer, said: “My father passed
away peacefully at his home in Los Angeles with the knowledge that he had
completed what he felt was one of his greatest records. He was writing up until his last moments with
his unique brand of humor.” Over a
musical career that spanned nearly five decades, Mr. Cohen wrote songs that
addressed—in spare language that could be both oblique and telling—themes of
love and faith, despair and exaltation, solitude and connection, war and
politics. More than 2,000 recordings of
his songs have been made, initially by the folk-pop singers who were his first
champions, like Judy Collins and Tim Hardin, and later by performers from
across the spectrum of popular music, among them U2, Aretha Franklin, R.E.M.,
Jeff Buckley, Trisha Yearwood and Elton John.
Larry Rohter Read much more and see pictures at
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1550
November 14, 2016 On this date in
1765, Robert Fulton, an American engineer who invented the steamboat, was
born. On this date in 1889, Elizabeth Cochran Seaman,
known by her pen name Nellie Bly, an American journalist, writer, industrialist,
inventor, and charity worker, set out on a record-breaking trip around the world in 72
days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg. She also wrote an exposé in which
she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within. Word of the Day: yurt noun A
large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls
and a conical roof,
usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where
it is known as a ger).
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