From the Friday, February 13, 2015, Chicago Tribune "As luck would have it: Friday the 13th news of note" by Mark Jacob.
That was a Friday the 13th and we have another one coming up in a week and a half. Mark Jacob takes a look back at some stories from Chicago's past on this "unlucky" date.
Friday, May 13, 1932: A North Side man reported his 13 golf clubs and 13 balls were stolen from his car at 13th and Wabash. Sounds like a story to me.
1980: Tribune film critic Gene Siskel hated the movie "Friday the 13th" so much, he went beyond just a "Thumbs Down" and gave away the movie's ending to discourage people from seeing it.
APRIL 13, 1860: A slow day for crime with just two "little cases" handled by police in the growing city of 110,000. The Tribune remarked, "Our city is very moral, or the police are not very sharp."
What Luck, A "Moral" City. --Cooter
Showing posts with label "Little Orphan Annie". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Little Orphan Annie". Show all posts
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
What Kind of Navy Did We Have Before World War I?-- Part 2
SUBMARINES: 17, 17, 23, 26 (1913), 36, 37, 44
STEEL GUNBOATS: 18, 18, 17, 17 (1913), 17, 17, 17
AUXILIARIES: 29, 28, 28, 27 (1913), 26, 26, 25
GUNBOATS: 16, 15, 12, 11 (1913), 11, 11, 11
TOTAL (Including Part 1): 196, 2012, 211, 214 (1913), 224, 231, 245.
It was a steady buildup.
Cooter
STEEL GUNBOATS: 18, 18, 17, 17 (1913), 17, 17, 17
AUXILIARIES: 29, 28, 28, 27 (1913), 26, 26, 25
GUNBOATS: 16, 15, 12, 11 (1913), 11, 11, 11
TOTAL (Including Part 1): 196, 2012, 211, 214 (1913), 224, 231, 245.
It was a steady buildup.
Cooter
Thursday, January 29, 2015
The Magic of the Sunday Comics-- Part 3: Little Orphan Annie"
"Little Orphan Annie" debuted Nov. 2, 1924, and never aged a day in the nine decades since. "She never grew up, or gave up, for all that life and her creator Harold Gray put her through. Which is not to say that tragedy was unknown in the script.
"An archconservative like his employer, Tribune publisher Robert McCormick, Gray detested the New Deal-- making his point by killing off Annie's sometime benefactor, Daddy Warbucks, as a victim of a misguided social revolution that made capitalists obsolete.
"After President Franklin Roosevelt's death, Daddy Warbucks was resurrected, the seeming miracle explained as a missed diagnosis: Warbucks hadn't died, he was just in a coma."
But, Ralphie, in "A Christmas Story" sure was excited about his Little Orphan Annie decoder ring until he deciphered it to find it was just to get him to drink his Ovaltine.
Not One of My favorite Comic Strips. --Cooter
"An archconservative like his employer, Tribune publisher Robert McCormick, Gray detested the New Deal-- making his point by killing off Annie's sometime benefactor, Daddy Warbucks, as a victim of a misguided social revolution that made capitalists obsolete.
"After President Franklin Roosevelt's death, Daddy Warbucks was resurrected, the seeming miracle explained as a missed diagnosis: Warbucks hadn't died, he was just in a coma."
But, Ralphie, in "A Christmas Story" sure was excited about his Little Orphan Annie decoder ring until he deciphered it to find it was just to get him to drink his Ovaltine.
Not One of My favorite Comic Strips. --Cooter
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