JAMES CARROLL IS SEVENTY AND ONE

JAMES CARROLL 

b. January 22, 1943 

AIR FORCE BRAT 
1960 Graduate 
General H. H. Arnold High School 
Wiesbaden, West Germany 

also 

WRITER 
Fiction and Non-Fiction 

and 
former PRIEST 

James Carroll was in the news recently with a New Yorker profile of Pope Francis ("Who Am I to Judge?"). He also has a column in the Boston Globe ("Sounding the Alarm, Then and Now") on the recently disclosed story of eight anti-war protestors who revealed some of the excesses of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, by means of the burglary of an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, back in March 1971. Edward Snowden is the obvious "Now" to the Media burglary eight's "Then." Carroll is alarmed: "While government overreach is partly to blame for privacy-destroying intrusions into the communications of average citizens, so are unbridled new technologies to which citizens have willingly made themselves hostage." 

THE WASHINGTON POST SOLD ITSELF; THE NEW YORK TIMES SOLD THE BOSTON GLOBE

A LOOK BACK AT A 

CELEBRATED EDITOR 

IN HIS GLORY DAYS 

THOMAS WINSHIP 

in his Boston GLOBE office 

the paper's symbol (mascot?) in front of him 

checking out the competition 

The Boston Herald Traveler  

More about Tom Winship here 

The sale of the Globe to principal Red Sox owner John W. Henry, announced August 3, 2013, is discussed here and here.  The sale of the Washington Post to Amazon's Jeffrey Bezos, revealed only two days later, is the subject of this posting. 

FRANK SARGENT BORN NINETY-EIGHT YEARS AGO

FRANCIS W. SARGENT 

July 29, 1915-October 21, 1998 

64th Governor of 
the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts 

(Republican) 

1969-1975 

The official profile, here; two obituaries, here and here. 

From an appreciation in the Boston Globe by David Nyhan (October 23, 1998, p. A27): 

No politician of his rank had more fun in office, as often at his own expense as at another's. He was not a complicated man, of twisted psyche, inner turmoil, or desperate ambition. Frank was Frank: a beautiful man, a solid friend, an able leader, an honest public servant. And a million laughs. What's not to prize in such a splendid fellow, now dead at 83? 

He was a product of distinguished and distinctive Massachusetts Yankee lineage, educated well, but not overly so, at Noble & Greenough and MIT -- hence the desktop motto: "Don't ask me; I didn't go to Harvard." Like a lot of his generation who survived World War II, he made the most of what he came back to. A skier-sportsman of the hardy New England variety, he wound up in the fabled 10th Mountain Division that trained hard in Colorado for Alpine combat, then was tossed into midsummer fury of the Italian campaign, where Captain Frank picked up two sets of wounds, a Bronze Star, and other medals. 

LORI McKENNA TO SING AT PASSIM, June 14-15, 2012

ON STAGE

LORI McKENNA

Singer-Songwriter

A long profile by Scott Helman ran in the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, March 11, 2012, and is available here. The Passim website is here. Lori McKenna's own website is here.

IN HONOR OF THOMAS & ELIZABETH SAVAGE

THE SAVAGES

OF MAINE

(& MONTANA)

THOMAS SAVAGE

April 25, 1915-July 25, 2003

ELIZABETH SAVAGE

February 15, 1918-July 15, 1989

&

THE MOON OVER MAINE

From an appreciation in the Boston Globe: "Elizabeth Savage is a wonderful novelist. Her books restore your faith in the form, for they lay before you vast stretches of truth -- like bolts of heavy, textured cloth. A fierce story-teller, she holds you with a narrative voice of triumphant common sense."

From an L.A. TIMES review of Thomas Savage's POWER OF THE DOG: "Savage writes like thunder and lightning. A flash will illuminate startling detail, a rumble will bring fierce revelation, a philosophy, a big picture."

THE WILD SWANS OF JUNG CHANG LAND ON THE STAGE AT AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER

"WILD SWANS"

AUTHOR

JUNG CHANG

"WILD SWANS" THE PLAY

which had its world premiere

the American Repertory Theater

Cambridge, Massachusetts

yesterday

is based on her 1991 book

Some background on the play, including information about the playwright and director, and about how an eight-hundred page memoir subtitled "Three Daughters of China" (Jung Chang and her mother and grandmother) was worked into a two-hour drama focusing on the husband and wife of the middle generation, is to be found here and here and here. The theater's WILD SWANS website is here; the production runs through March 11 in the U.S. and then moves to the U.K.

The Boston Globe now has a review, here.

Some impressions of the play, seen March 1, here.

EDWARD M. "TED" KENNEDY GONE TWO YEARS

EDWARD M. KENNEDY 

February 22, 1932-August 25, 2009 

Simplicity 

THE GRAVESITE OF 

SENATOR & FORMER PRIVATE 

"TED" KENNEDY 

Arlington National Cemetery 

The obituary and much more; 

multi-media stories of a life; 

from the Boston Globe, here 

TOM WINSHIP b. July 1, 1920

THOMAS WINSHIP 

July 1, 1920-March 14, 2002 

TOM WINSHIP 

the BOSTON GLOBE EDITOR 

1965-1984 

in his office at the Globe 

Some appreciations (and assessments) 

of his life and work 

here and here and here 

BUD COLLINS b. June 17, 1929

BUD COLLINS
b. June 17, 1929


ARTHUR W. ("BUD") COLLINS, JR.

INDUCTED INTO THE
TENNIS HALL OF FAME, 1994

From the Citation:

"As a journalist and television commentator, as an esteemed historian and a vibrant personality, as a communicator unlike any other in his time, Bud Collins has been at the forefront of tennis since the early 1960s. Collins has covered more major championships than any American reporter, and has always conveyed his voluminous knowledge of the sport with an infectious enthusiasm."

BUD COLLINS' own website here

Photographed for Women's Wear Daily (indoors!); article by Lee Wohlfert (only the first part of the article is shown above).