6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (435+ words) The Ritz Hotel in Paris has a bar called "The Hemingway Bar," and if you want in on a Friday night, you're going to have to line up, and it's uncertain you'll get in unless you have a room. Rooms…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (483+ words) When my son Micah was 8, he and I listened repeatedly to "Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America," a classic 1961 send-up of American history. One sketch imagines Thomas Jefferson going door to door, gathering signatures for the Declaration of…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (643+ words) Philip K. Howard, a graduate of Taft prep school, Yale and the University of Virginia School of Law, says he never wore "white bucks." This 1950s campus fashion waned before he matriculated. Those buckskin shoes were popular among young blades destined to…...