How Meeting George Gershwin Changed Roger Horchow’s Life
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Roger Horchow was 61 years old in 1988 when Neiman Marcus bought his luxury mail order catalogue operation for more than $100 million. His first reaction: “Suddenly I was out of work. I had to figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up.” That wry response is a peek into the personality […]
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Saluting Ann Whitman
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For more than two decades, from 1952 to 1977, Ann Whitman worked in Washington among the most powerful national political leaders of the time. She held no elected office and was invisible to the general public — but government insiders were fully aware of her presence and her clout. Whitman was President Dwight Eisenhower’s confidential […]
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What Do Abraham Lincoln and John Dillinger Have in Common?
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It appears that the efforts to exhume the body of the notorious gangster, John Dillinger, from his grave in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana, have been scuttled. Michael Thompson, Dillinger’s nephew, in coordination with the History Channel, had filed to have the body disinterred in July of 2019. Thompson wanted to make sure that […]
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Tribute to William Bailey
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William Bailey
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