W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. His stories, many of them amusing tales of life along t...
Understudies auditioning Davenport, Mealey will get their chance By LORI NICKEL lnickel@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel Friday, September 20, 2002 Green Bay -- With Ahman Green sidelined again Thursday in practice, Green Bay Packers running backs coach Sylvester Croom took another hard...
When John Major became prime minister, one commentator likened him to Mr Pooter wandering into Downing Street by mistake. Melbourne's accession to power, after a scant six years as a minister, excited similar incredulity. He was a political nobody, without an ounce of charisma...
The great editor Clay Felker, who invented so much of what drives this newspaper and so many magazines in New York City, liked to refer to New York as the “City of Ambition,” a phrase created by his friend Tom Wolfe. What is the City...
