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...advice did not immediately take. Dr. Bob went to Atlantic City, N.J., for a convention; several days later, he showed up at the Akron train station, smashed. On June 10, the dried-out but still jittery doctor was due in surgery. That morning, Bill W. gave Dr. Bob a bottle of beer--to steady his scalpel hand. The operation was a success. The beer was Dr. Bob's last. And the two men pledged that day to work to bring Bill W.'s principles to other alcoholics, one day at a time. --By James Poniewozik
...comics publisher Max Gaines (whose son Bill would publish Tales from the Crypt and Mad in the '50s) recommended the lads to DC Comics. Finally someone said yes. From that first issue, the character was fully formed: he could "hurdle a 20-story building ... run faster than an express train ..." and still, as Clark Kent, never impress newsgal Lois Lane. The final panel seemed boastful--"Superman is destined to reshape the destiny of a world!"--but was simply prophetic. To Americans deep in an economic Depression and hearing the drumbeats of European war, the Man of Steel offered both escape...
Back in Queens, in the enclosed gravel courtyard outside P.S. 1, there is a large work by Yoko Ono. Yes, that Yoko Ono. Freight Train, 1999, consists of an actual railway freight car on a short length of track, pocked all over with what look like bullet holes. Hidden speakers emit strange ululations, clicks and keenings, sounds that approach the haunted music of Noh plays but fall short of melody as Westerners customarily think...
...feel prepared. We train intensively,” Marinelarena said. “I am not afraid for myself, but I am scared for the repercussions—should anything go wrong—on my family and friends...
Botterill flew to Calgary with four other college hockey players the day after the NCAA championships to train with the Canadian national team...