Saturday, July 18, 2009

  
[1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, author, born in Calcutta, India]

[1903 - Chill Wills, actor, singer, born in Seagoville, Texas]

[1906 - Clifford Odets, playwright, born
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

[1910 - Lou (Louis Ferdinand) Bush
(aka Joe 'Fingers' Carr),
pianist, arranger, composer,
born in Louisville, Kentucky]

   
[1911 - Hume Cronyn (Blake), actor, born in London, Ontario, Canada]

[1913 - Red (Richard Bernard) Skelton, Emmy Award-
winning comedian, born in Vincennes, Indiana]

    
[1914 - Joe Hill sentenced to death in Utah (later executed)]

[1918 - Start of the WW-1 Battle of Aisne-Marne]

[Aisne-Marne Cemetery & Memorial]

[1929 - Screamin' Jay (Jalacy) Hawkins, singer, pianist, born in Cleveland, Ohio]

[1937 - Hunter S. (Stockton) Thompson, journalist, author,
born in Louisville, Kentucky]

Be Present

Writers live in the present because they know that something that is just about to happen may needs end up on the page.

[Aisne-Marne Memorial]

William's Whimsical Words:

Writers live in the present and soldiers die in it.

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