This Week (June 24th-30th) in 1954… On June 27th, Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman steps down as a result of the coup that has been going on in his country. There are claims of United States interference leading the coup, but these are as yet unsubstantiated by the standards of this 1950s era newspaper! The film The Caine Mutiny hit… Read more »
I’m changing up the stuff I write for the site to find stuff I’m more interested in. The wife and I were out having dinner at a nicer place with a great bar a few weeks ago. I decided, on a whim, to try one of their vodka martinis. The one I got was sufficiently dirty, with a few olives…. Read more »
This Week (June 17-23rd) in 1954… The summer movie season is starting to get well under way. This week movie goers were treated to two films (Them! and Demetrius and the Gladiators) and a short out of Warner Brothers Studios (Devil May Hare). Them! is a science fiction film directed by Gordon Douglas. The film covers the interaction of an… Read more »
Murphy “Stretch” Dwyer Mini-Bio: “Stretch”, as he became known in Middle School, was born to James and Janet Dwyer on January 1st, 1927, in Escagoula Point, MS. Stretch was the last of four: Sisters Georgia and Louise, and brother Robert. His dad worked with Ron’s dad at the same plant, and also served in the Navy during World War I…. Read more »
This Week (June 10th-16th) The Student Prince debuted on Tuesday. This Richard Thorpe musical features Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, and the singing voice of Mario Lanza. On June 15th, the biographical documentary Helen Keller in Her Story debuted. This film covers the story of Helen Keller’s struggles being deaf and blind. On the 14th, President Eisenhower signed a bill adding… Read more »
Chapter 1 Getting a job out of town seemed counter-interuitive for me, because I had to keep the day job. But when the offer came in with more zeroes than I expected, I couldn’t turn it down. I found myself driving down to New Orleans to see a man about his daughter’s husband. Apparently the man was a cad, and… Read more »
This Week (June 3rd-9th) in 1954… In sad news, on Tuesday, Alan Mathison Turing was found dead. He had died on Monday. The cause of death has not yet been determined. Turing, a pioneer in the field of Computing and an all-around genius who contributed to the fields of Mathematics, Logic, and cryptology, had been convicted of indecency by the… Read more »
Before I start, for those of my readers who don’t smoke or are new to it and aren’t sure what a second is: these are the cigars that aren’t good enough to sell as first run cigars. There are usually flaws of some sort (mostly, in my experience, visibly!) that would turn off most buyers. I’ve had seconds of all… Read more »