Paul Clancy, published in 1940 Opera Diva Maria Jeritza’s chart. Marc  Edmund Jones, a good friend, took it and put it in his 1000 in toto.  Scouting around, I found the New York Times obit, which cast no light on her, and gave no help.  I searched on.  Finally on  FindAGrave.com, I read a beautiful […]

I read this in Barron’s and not know Dylan I looked at Dylan’s stream on TikTok. Alissa Heinerscheid is taking a leave of absence as marketing vice president for Anheuser-Busch InBev’s Bud Light brand after calls to boycott the brand over its work with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Heinerscheid’s boss Daniel Blake, who oversees […]

Ciaran Bourke was a founder of the Dubliners. He came from a wealthy family who hired an Irish nurse from the countryside. She taught him Gaelic (Gaeilge) and appreciation of traditional music and jigs. Inspired by her, Ciaran, as an adult, gathered a band of like-minded Irish musicians and taught them the same, thereby keeping […]

Gary W. Lineker was a football striker. In European football, or American soccer, the team sets up the striker, who has the power and maneuverability to actually “strike” the ball into scoring position. Lineker played for several top teams in Britain and Europe. After retiring, Lineker became the host of Match of the Day (commonly […]

Update on the late Karl Lagerfeld from the WSJ from a biography from his friend, Thomas Middleton.

I did a chart for Lee winning the New York state gubernatorial race and felt he would win. He did not, so I had to review the chart and discover why. Of course, the obvious reason is the number of people leaving New York is at an all-time high, and those were lost voting opportunities. […]

Anton Chekhov was a medical doctor and a writer of plays. One of his first plays was the Seagull available here on Gutenberg, about the artistic clashes and melancholy ala Shakespeare’s Hamlet (which is slyly alluded to), that Sir Tom Stoppard wrote “You can’t have too many English Seagulls: for , the Russian one will […]

Moses Farrow is one of the children that Mia Farrow and Woody Allen adopted over 40 years ago. Like his sister, Soon-Yi Previn he was born in Korea. Mia has been upset that her son support Woody and Soon Yi and not her. Some theories have been Woody’s interference with the boy, though he adamantly […]

On April 12, 1955, at Kokubunji, Tokyo, a tiny rocket called Pencil was launched horizontally. Even before and during WWII, research into rockets is said to have attained a considerable level, but most scientists destroyed their materials for fear that they would be accused of war crimes as after World War II, Japan was forbidden […]

In astrology, the asteroid Itokawa is named in honour of  Dr. Hideo Itokawa. His asteroid is used  to highlight astronomical or rocketry discoveries and advances. He is affectionately called “Dr. Rocket”  because on April 12, 1955. he led his fellow scientists in launching the tiny rocket called Pencil, a miniscule thing about 23CM in length […]

Goldsmith’s degree for Starr’s ascendant is rather amusing. He writes A man walks out on his front porch at daybreak. The paper-boy throws a newspaper, which lands squarely at his feet, revealing a sensational headline, well Starr did seem to have a knack for headlines. Kenneth Starr’s oddities Another oddity about Starr, is for a […]