“We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.” ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
How top executives live (Fortune, 1955)
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By Duncan Norton-Taylor
*Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a story from our magazine
archives. With the annual Fortune 500 list ready to be r...
An Irish Touch
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*An Irish Touch *
The theme of Irish literature is filling the hearts and minds of a few
Community College of Philadelphia students and professors as they ...
Clam Cakes, my Rhode Island style
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Sagegreen's Rhode Island style clam cakes certainly bring you back to a day
at the fair. Crispy on the outside and soft and pillowy inside -- speckled
w...
Car dealers rally to help foster children
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CHILDREN’S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
Two local car dealers are partnering with the Children’s Foundation of
America during National Foster Care Awareness Mon...
Echo Chiu
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Will the whack job whose goes by the name "Echo Chiu" please stop sending
us porno stories?
We put up art and art related stories for people to enjoy, its ...
Tour exposes underbelly of Outfit's upper class
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History buff leads bus trips to homes in Oak Park, River Forest
By Andy Grimm, Tribune Reporter
With a half-dozen people aboard a tour bus looking on, Greg...
Chicago mob part of Havana's history
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March 26, 2012 (HAVANA, Cuba) (WLS) -- Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Cuba
Monday after a three-day trip to Mexico. He will travel to Havana on
Tuesday for m...
The Laws of Wealth
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In 1860 Ralph Waldo Emerson published a collection of essays entitled *The
Conduct of Life*. One of those essays was entitled "Wealth," and in it he
spe...
‘Great Gatsby’ mansion on Long Island sells
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*‘Great Gatsby’ mansion on Long Island sells*
By Lisa Doll Bruno
Newsday
The Kings Point estate said to have been the inspiration for the West Egg
mansio...
South County Quahaug Chowder
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6 pounds quahaugs
6 cups water
1/4 cup salt pork, cut into tiny cubes
1 cup chopped onion
4 cups cubed potatoes
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
...
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
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"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the
magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its
natural...
“What really knocks me out
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it,
you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you
co...
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
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“I got a kick out of having a big bankroll in my pocket. Even if I only
made a couple hundred dollars, I'd always keep it in fives and tens so it'd
look...
Too tough to fuggedabout: Notable Mafia nicknames
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Former New England Mafia boss Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio was sentenced
Friday to 5 1/2 years in prison for his role in the shakedown of
Providence, R....
Quotes by H. L. Mencken
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
A ho...
NATIONAL FOSTER CARE MONTH, 2012
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The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
May 02, 2012
Presidential Proclamation -- National Foster Care Month
NATIONAL FO...
A Ban on Some Seafood Has Fishermen Fuming
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A Ban on Some Seafood Has Fishermen Fuming
Starting Sunday, gray sole and skate, common catches in the region, will no
longer appear in the grocery chain’...
Roger Touhy, shot
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Stillwagon: Who are you?
Touhy: Roger Touhy.
Stillwagon: Who shot you?
Touhy: Two cops.
Stillwagon: Who were they? Who were the cops?
Touhy: Two cops.
Stil...
Georges bank stuffed scallops
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*With Castle Hill Inn*
We're making Georges Bank scallops filled with house-made andouille
sausage, sweet pea tendrils, and cauliflower chowder with Che...
The Netherlands Carillon
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The Netherlands Carillon adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery was a gift
from the people of the Netherlands to the people of the United States ...
Lanterns! Candles! Shakespeare for Jacobeans
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LONDON A new Jacobean-style theater, built next to Shakespeare's restored
Globe alongside the River Thames, will be lit by candle and lantern and
featur...
Midtown’s Irish Elite
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For the last five years, Billy Redmond has been the proud owner of a
million-dollar apartment in the heart of Manhattan. “I’ve been in it once,”
he said. “...
On the Irish
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"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important
and nice, but you take second place all the same." -*Iris Murdoch*
"The Irish...
NATIONAL FOSTER CARE MONTH, 2012
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The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
May 02, 2012
Presidential Proclamation -- National Foster Care Month
NATIONAL FO...
The art of refinement
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BY BRIAN HAGGERTY
South Bergenite
When we hear the word refinement, we think of notable figures like
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Grace Kelly, F Scott F...
New York System in Rhode Island
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Big cities are often identified by a unique local cuisine. Mention New York
and you’ll hear about the pizza. Talk about Philadelphia and you’ll be
compel...
New York standards
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The Oak Room
Built in 1907, The Oak Room in the Plaza Hotel on Central Park South has
more history and more famous people stories than most location...
28TH USS KITTY HAWK CV-63
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28TH USS KITTY HAWK CV-63
Commanding Officer
Captain Matthew W. Tuohy
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Captain Matthew W. Tuohy attended
Jacksonvill...
Married to mob – until night of horror
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It’s been 40 years since Joey “Crazy Joe” Gallo was gunned down in Little
Italy’s Umberto’s Clam House, but the mobster’s bride of only three weeks
remem...
Lobster Pecorino Frittata
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This dish tastes like an entire New England clambake all folded into a
luxurious frittata. Budget enough time to bake the potato and to steam the
lobster....
How top executives live (Fortune, 1955)
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By Duncan Norton-Taylor
*Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a story from our magazine
archives. With the annual Fortune 500 list ready to be r...
On sale now at amazon
On sale now at amazon
We get a kick out of Motor Mouth
Terry Young is the weekday afternoon DJ on XM's 60s on 6 channel (ch 6).
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. John Lennon
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. John Lennon
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