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Orenstein didn’t name the turkey, but his mother did dress it up. Unfortunately, the turkey’s beak has not survived the harsh conditions of Orenstein’s home. His dog Hank...
Speaking of baseball, is Cal Ripken’s consecutive game streak really the most memorable Major League moment of all-time? More memorable than Carlton Fisk’s 1975 Game Six home run, Hank Aaron’s record-breaking 715th career homer or Kirk Gibson’s “I don’t believe what I just saw” fist pumping blast in the 1988 World Series? It’s a great record, but it’s not really a baseball moment. He just showed...
...Harvard social psychologist Henry Weschler, a lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health. His take on the policy is: “While a no keg policy is certainly not going to stop all drinking, it will slow down the amount of alcohol consumed.” Dr. Hank, I beg to differ. It doesn’t take a social psychologist to know that banning one method of alcohol consumption does not prevent students from turning to other sources for their buzz. Harvard students are, if nothing else, resourceful when it comes to procuring alcohol. More importantly, anyone...
...Anyway, this is a time to celebrate a hallowed anniversary. Fifty years ago, Sam Phillips, who ran the Memphis Recording Service (Preserve those weddings and bar mitzvahs forever on wax! Bring your child in to sing "Jambalaya" - he could be the next Hank Williams!), started his own record label. He called it Sun, and it was good...
...Jerry Lee often said that pop music had produced only four supreme stylists: Al Jolson, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams and himself. (Al Jolson??) On that incendiary night at the Brooklyn Paramount - March 28, 1958 - JLL could reasonably expect he might soon be the most popular of the four. "Breathless," his follow-up to "Great Balls of Fire," was chugging up the charts. His next single would be the theme song to a (minor) Hollywood film, "High School Confidential." And in May he would begin a headlining tour of Great Britain. A star was born. A star prevails...