"It ain’t much of a war, but it’s the only one we got." This month in 1964, @asssociatedpress.bsky.socialrayboomhower.blogspot.com/2022/08/crea...
During its heyday, the Bobbs-Merrill Company of Indianapolis stood as the largest publishing house located west of the Allegheny Mountains,...
"I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress.” Daniel J. Boorstin, born on this day in 1914
"Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject." E. B. White, who died on this day in 1985
“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. . . . War makes you a man; war makes you dead.” Tim O'Brien, born on this day in 1946
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.” Truman Capote, born on this day in 1924
"On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree." W. S. Merwin, born on this day in 1927
“The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.” W. H. Auden, who died on this day in 1973
On this day in 1968, John Bartlow Martin traveled to Washington, DC, to begin working for the Democratic presidential candidate—Hubert Humphrey. Martin’s assessment: “He just talked too damn much. I told him so, so did everybody else; but it did no good.” rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-...
In late August 1968 John Bartlow Martin , a former Indiana newspaperman, freelance writer for national magazines, and speechwriter for a num...
Oppenheimer! Strauss! Truman! Guthrie! Guthrie? Yes, Wayne Guthrie of the "Indianapolis News." They all came together for Operation Crossroads in 1946. outrider.org/nuclear-weap...
Wayne Guthrie and the Bikini Tests