Brad

I’d be happy for anyone to beat the Americans. Watching the Spain Germany match. It’s a very close match so far but the Spanish keeper made a mistake that might cost them the match.

When we were young. Sigh.

An image too strange to contemplate!

The USA Thailand match is a complete embarrassment. You wouldn’t see this in the Men’s game.

I think reprinting full articles was a concern for Jim; copyright issues I expect. I see Iron Mountain is discussed. The company I worked for pre-retirement used to use them. I was never that impressed; record retrieval was not always easy. I was in charge of negotiating a renewal agreement with them and it was not an easy process, never completed. Ultimately, it didn’t matter because the company that acquired us did their own record storage and we pulled all of our records from Iron Mountain.

I’m halfway through the story and the loss for music lovers us staggering, almost incomprehensible to contemplate. To imagine that the Chess masters for Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf and others are gone is like losing history.

When the champs are down and the corpse shaking, you have to put the dagger through. They didn't do that. The Raptors and the fans were so close they could taste it but they couldn't bring it home. Maybe the enormity of the moment got to them. I can't see that happening again.

Lucky you. I’m jealous.

Awesome win for the Warriors tonight. Raptors may still prevail but it’s going to be a battle the rest of the way.

Sambuca.

A good result for Spain today in Euro qualifying, 3-0 over Sweden.

An interesting tale: What Happened After P.G. Wodehouse Was Captured During World War II As told through the pages of the New York Times.

It improved marginally but it's still terrible!

Most of us on this board were fortunate; we had the advantage of a good education where reading and writing were emphasized, with teachers and parents who cared and made sure we worked on those things. When I lived in Trinidad when I was 10 years old, my penmanship was awful and, after being warned, the Head Mistress of my school whacked me across the rear end and sent my notebook home. Every day after I arrived home, I had to practice penmanship for an hour. However, others have not been as lucky to have people who cared.

Tonight is the first installment of the Subway Series. Frankly, I can do without inter league play but the SS is still fun and a good draw. Yankee Stadium will be sold out as I’m sure CitiField will be sold out when the series resumes in July.

Thanks for the video. I haven’t read ABC since I lived in Spain; my Father was a devoted reader.

Interesting in how it seamlessly merges actual war footage with the actual acting.

With all due respect and no insult intended to anyone, but reading stories about priests doesn’t sound overly exciting to me, but, then again, reading stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer might not be exciting to others.

The kings of the sport are getting older. Age catches up with everybody.

The door was cerrado!

Based on my reading of the Gorbach book, the New Yorker article strikes me as unfair and generally ignores his role as an an activist in the 1940s to help European Jews and resist the British in Palestine after WW II. In that regard he was a great propagandist in keeping the plight of the European Jews alive. He helped groups that wanted to rescue the Jews and get them to Palestine, efforts which the mainstream Jewish groups opposed vehemently. Similarly, he raised a lot of money for Israel, albeit groups that were considered criminal like the Irgun. In addition, he was not only a great script writer but acted as a script doctor on many films and some of his films like the Frontpage and Scarface are epic films that stand the test of time. A more nuanced and balanced review is the New York Times review, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/books/review/adina-hoffman-julien-gorbach-ben-hecht-biography.html

I finished reading this and the problem with the book is that although you learn a lot about the Chicago newspaper business, the literary movements at the time, Hollywood and his activism during WW II on behalf of the Jews of Europe and Israel, you don’t learn enough about Hecht. It’s more about them than Hecht himself.

Of course you can if you wish. I again bring up tennis where the men have all the qualities you describe but the women’s game is quite exciting. The women’s draw in the French Open was actually more interesting than the men’s draw. At the end of the day, if you don’t like it, nothing I can say will change your mind so I won’t try.