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That was 1939, when Ackerman and his friend Myrtle R. Douglas attended the first World Science Fiction Convention in Manhattan - both dressed in space suits. (Trekkies, now you know who originated that imaginative eccentricity.) In a 1996 interview with Ed Grant of the New York City cable access show Media...
This futurist lived long enough to serenely contemplate his own future, or lack of it. "It would be nice to look forward to going to a Great Sci-Fi Convention in the Sky when I expire," he wrote. "I am vaguely contemplating opting for a cryogenic comeback but in case...
I next saw Obama at his final stop before Super Tuesday in Boston, and then again at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. With each successive Obama-sighting, the crowds grew larger. The 80,000-person crowd that packed the bleachers at Invesco Field was a far cry from the...
• Jumped to Obama's 2004 senatorial campaign and his been with the candidate ever since. In fact, Obama wore one of Gibbs' ties during his blockbuster 2004 Democratic convention speech when the one he was sporting was deemed unsuitable for TV.
"It was requisitioned for a higher purpose. I have never gotten that back and I never had the illusion that I would."- On the light blue tie hijacked by Obama for his 2004 convention speech (Chicago Tribune, Nov. 16, 2008)