BILLY BYRNE
Billy Byrne was a product of the streets and alleys
of Chicago’s great West Side. From Halsted
to Robey, and from Grand Avenue to Lake Street there
was scarce a bartender whom...
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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American adventure writer whose Tarzan stories created a folk hero known around the world. His novels sold more than 100 million copies in 56 languages, making ...
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On December 1, 1911, at about eight o'clock in the evening, a thirty-six-year-old man picked up a pen and began to write a story. This man had lived out almost half his life and was, by his own standa...
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It is probably not surprising that a man nearly forty years of age, with a wife and children to support but no real taste for the pedestrian routines of business, should dream of being carried away to...
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Any kid can grow up to be president. Just look at their report cards. Lyndon Johnson got a D in his third-grade grammar class. John Kennedy scored a 55 in eighth-grade Latin. George H.W. Bush's hig...
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The Mucker
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Even presidents get bad grades in school
