Raintree County and Ross Lockridge, Jr.–An author who died for his book
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Ross Lockridge, Jr., a thirty-three year-old professor at Indiana University, had just launched the literary equivalent of a walk-off World Series home run. His epic, thousand-page novel Raintree County was sitting on top of the best seller list. It was a Book-of-the-Month club selection and MGM had paid lavishly for the film rights. For Lockridge, his wife […]
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You “Liked” what I ate for breakfast, but are you really my friend?
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Casually crossing paths with Stanley Marcus or Roger Horchow often proved to be anything but casual. The two Dallas-based powerhouse retailers, now both deceased, defined good taste on an international level for generations. Both clearly understood the power of individual social connection long before the term hashtag was created. “Consumers are statistics,” Marcus once said. […]
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Yes, there are people who remember everything
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Imagine having the ability to accurately remember every day of your life. Not hazy, general recollections, but a precise recall of events as though they occurred just yesterday. What the weather was like, the clothes you wore, people you were with, exact details of conversations — a virtual documentary film of your life. Impossible? The twilight zone, […]
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MLB Hits a Grand Slam with Field of Dreams Game
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“Baseball really hit a grand slam,” Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa said of the August 12 Field of Dreams game in Dyersville, Iowa. “It turned out to be a game you think would have been scripted on a Hollywood movie lot or something.” Played at a specially constructed, six-million-dollar stadium adjacent to the Field of Dreams diamond […]
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Shortage of Primary Care Doctors Threatens Lives
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Alarm bells have been sounding for years about the shortage of physicians in the United States. Based on recent studies, those bells have become sirens. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has long been warning about this quandary, but the most current data suggests a serious tipping point is about to be reached. Within […]
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