Saturday, May 18, 2013
Ken Venturi, R. I. P.
Yahoo! Sports: Ken Venturi, winner of the 1964 U.S. Open and a longtime commentator for CBS, has died at the age of 82.
PimPage: An Occasional Feature in Which I Call Attention to Books of Interest
Amazon.com: To Beat the Devil - A Mick Murphy Key West Mystery eBook: Michael Haskins: Kindle Store: With Mick Murphy recovering from near death, his black-ops friend Norm Burke assists him on his quest to kill Russian mobster Alexei, the man Murphy holds responsible for Tita's death. Almost close to goat, Murphy gets Alexei's journal from a Mexican drug lord and it leads him back to Key West where he must choose between his quest and savings the lives of innocent people caught up in a terrorist plot.A plot that involves terrorists, Iranians, government agents and makes Murphy, Norm and all involved question their ideas on conspiracy theories.
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Albert Seedman, R. I. P.
NYTimes.com: Albert Seedman, the New York Police Department’s chief of detectives in the early 1970s who became something of a celebrity as the savvy, cigar-chomping personification of the tough-guy cop while modernizing a tradition-bound force, died on Friday in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 94.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Beatles Update
Paul McCartney: Yoko Ono didn’t break up the Beatles: Despite decades of feuding, Sir Paul McCartney has recently come to Ono’s defense to set the record straight.
I Found a Penny the Other Day
Danish teenager makes rare Viking-era find with metal detector: Danish museum officials say that an archaeological dig last year has revealed 365 items from the Viking era, including 60 rare coins.
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