Poor William's Almanack, March 8, 2008, Success #2

franklin-bifocals-60 Saturday, March 8, 2008

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

[1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Associate Justice U.S. Supreme Court, born in Boston, Massachusetts]

[1888 - Stuart Chase, economist, engineer, writer, born in Somersworth, New Hampshire]

[1902 - Louise Beavers, actress, born in Cincinnati, Ohio]

Actress Claire Trevor

[1909 - Claire Trevor (Wemlinger), Academy Award-winning actress, born in Brooklyn]

[1917 - Russian February Revolution begins]

[1922 - Carl (Anthony) Furillo, Brooklyn Dodger outfielder, born in Stony Creek Mills, Pennsylvania]

Early Daytona race
[1936 - First stock-car race is run at Daytona]

Danang - Marines landing in 1965
[1965 - First major US Marine units land at Danang, South Vietnam]

Success #2

Success in life can be measured by how closely what you do approximates who you are.

Churchill with FDR Bob Hope with troops JFK
MLK Lincoln's last sitting Ty Cobb
Admiral Nimitz Frank Sinatra Jim Thorpe

William's Whimsical Words:

Take care what career thou chooseth to pursue.

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