The complete online text of Happy Jack by Thornton Burgess.

One of the most prolific writers of nature stories for children, Thornton Waldo Burgess published over seventy books during his lifetime and for forty-four years wrote a daily story column--over 15,000 columns in all--for the Associated News and the New...

Byline: SUSAN LADD Staff Writer Some of our favorite foods celebrate important birthdays in 1996. The venerable Tootsie Roll has been part of childhood for every generation since 1896. The adult treat, Michelob, also turns 100 this year. Though Cracker Jack was invented...

Byline: FRASER MACKIE MATHIAS JACK returns to Edinburgh this morning praying that he does not become one of the most high-profile players in Scotland to be put out of work by the chronic financial problems biting into top-level SPL clubs. The popular...

In the hurly-burly decades after the Civil War, uptown and downtown, on and off the Bowery and all over Five Points, the New York underworld boasted a roster of real-life shady characters—crooked barkeeps, cops on the take, sundry fences, countless thieves and gangs galore—who could...

In the hurly-burly decades after the Civil War, uptown and downtown, on and off the Bowery and all over Five Points, the New York underworld boasted a roster of real-life shady characters—crooked barkeeps, cops on the take, sundry fences, countless thieves and gangs galore—who could...