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Mar 10, 2014
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. In the darkest days of World War II, in 1942, Great Britain held... but only held with the thinnest of thin red lines. Its valiant, uncomplaining people were worn, hung...
Feb 24, 2014
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. This is not merely an article. It is instead a declaration of support and unity for people like Alex Shear (and, yes, me) who are (far) beyond obsessive in their acquisi...
Feb 19, 2014
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. If I'd been smart, I would have met Shirley Temple Black in Prague August 20, 1968. I was finishing up several exhilarating days in the ancient capital of the Kingdom ...
Feb 16, 2014
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. Winter nights in Iowa make it easy to believe that hell is not a fiery place with unrelenting flames that burn for eternity but rather an untold immensity of ice and snow;...
Feb 5, 2014
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. When I heard that Pete Seeger had died I was 16 all over again, immersed in the righteous rituals of American adolescence, which in that year of our Lord 1973 meant the ...
Jan 28, 2014
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Fellow citizens of the Internet, one of our Founding Fathers, Paul Baran, has died, at 84, in Palo Alto, California.
Pray, take a moment from your busy day online and have a kind thought fo...
Jan 26, 2014
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Ever hear of Dr. Harry Coover? Probably not.
Know what cyanoacrylates are? Probably not.
Yet both of them have a place in your life -- under the commercial name Super Glue. You've surel...
Jan 25, 2014
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
In 1984 a streaked-blond, peanut-butter-and-jelly-making mom made history... before she became an object lesson in unwittingly hurting the candidate and political party she was there to help. ...
Jan 24, 2014
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
First you saw two of the most beautiful people you had ever seen, Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. That was reason enough to pay attention.
Then, all of a sudden, the film made a quant...
Jan 24, 2014
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
As a commentator myself, it is a sad honor to mark the passing of the dean of American commentators, David Broder, since 1966 political correspondent and columnist for the Washington Post.
A...
Jan 22, 2014
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Until a day or two ago, your salary was $1.8 million dollars a WEEK, with a plethora of lucrative side deals, too.
You were the highest paid television personality... and had more of the sam...
Jan 22, 2014
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
My Cambridge, Massachusetts neighborhood, where the soaring steeple of Harvard's Memorial Church is so prominent, reminding us of the eternity to come, is today in mourning for a man of God, of ...
Jan 21, 2014
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's note. Before commencing this article, set the mood. Go to any search engine and look for the theme song for the Sea Hunt television series. It's just the right tune to put you in the mo...
Jan 21, 2014
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
This is the story of a woman of rare talent, a woman with the ability to engross us, envelope us, touch our lives with searing emotion, pain, anguish and the cross currents of love. This is the ...
Jan 20, 2014
By Howard Martell
Author's program note. I can see Arthur Godfrey's domain so very clearly in my mind's eye. It was my grandmother's kitchen, a place of succulent smells and apple- pie order, the care and feeding of her extensive brood h...
Jan 5, 2014
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant.
Author's program note. In 1937 Frank Capra, one of Hollywood's certifiable magic makers, released "Lost Horizon" based on the1933 novel by James Hilton in which its audience was asked to drea...
Dec 30, 2013
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant.
Author's program note. This is the story of a man I knew who died. It is our story, for in learning about that man you will learn about this man... and you will learn about yourself, which is...
Dec 30, 2013
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant.
Author's program note. This is the story of a man I knew who died. It is our story, for in learning about that man you will learn about this man... and you will learn about yourself, which is...
Dec 25, 2013
By Howard Martell
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. Since the beginning of human society and civilization, we homo sapiens have extolled... and rightly so... the achievements of our fellow Earth travelers, not just to honor ...
Sep 10, 2013
By Howard Martell
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author's program note. In 1970 Erich Segal began his international best seller "Love Story" with this line: "What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?" The world shed copious...