The Mechanics' Institute may not be the only private library in the United States, but it can boast about being the most successful.
Sometimes, he sneaks out to shortstop during the New York Yankee batting practice to take grounders and fire clean, accurate, right-handed pegs to first base.
'Everybody has a talent. God gave me a talent with bricks.'
There isn't much that television producer-writer-director Rift Fournier hasn't done: --He used to be a stringer for Variety, the show-business trade paper.
Billy Joel winced in pain as he fiddled with a formidable-looking brace on his recently sprained right ankle.
--Georgetown University's Class of '85 included a 67-year-old woman who sang a song she wrote just for the occasion.
Vidal, his chocolate-colored skin shining in the scorching noon sun, was leading his burro down the narrow, rocky, dusty and winding road when he spotted the strangers in the Jeep.
Silicon Valley, a 20-mile strip on the San Francisco Peninsula where high-technology firms have ridden a fast track into the computer revolution, is undergoing a shakedown but is still a symbol of America's future, says a book chronicling the valley's history.
By replacing designated hitter Hal McRae in the Kansas City batting order, Frank White has become the first second baseman to hit cleanup in a World Series since 1952.
Two Japanese men walked into the Northridge showroom of Keene Engineering Inc. recently and, producing an inch-thick wad of traveler's checks, ordered $4,000 worth of gold-dredging machinery.
A small, cluttered, dusty newspaper back shop in Orange County isn't one of the usual movie-making haunts for director Karel Reisz.
At first glance, the former Edgemar Farms egg processing plant on Santa Monica's Main Street seems like an unlikely place to view the works of contemporary artists.
There are hundreds of good stables and miles of riding trails in Southern California, yet many of us don't take advantage of them because we have never taken horseback-riding lessons, or if we did, it was years ago.
Want to change the world? Make a fortune? Sell insurance? Take a nap.
Mickey Mantle, hospitalized in Irving, Tex., recently after suffering from chest pains and shortness of breath, recalled a dream he had while in the hospital.
Danny Gil had a fistful of goals at the beginning of his senior season at Poly High.
When Zenola Maxie was a little girl in the South and the Midwest, it always bothered her that only the daughters of the wealthy high society--black or white--were presented in traditional debutante balls.
All were Haitian exiles of sorts but with quite different hopes and dreams.
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