Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Archive for February 1, 2005
Wonder if he uses Quicken
Motley Fool reports that Warren Buffett made $645 million on the Procter & Gamble merger with Gillette.
Round up
At the Daily Howler, Bob Somerby complains about the media’s inability (and the Democrats inability, too) to frame an understanding of Social Security so there can be an informed discourse.
In an op-ed piece entitled The Washington Post:
David W. Anderson is resigning as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs after one year on the job, saying he can do more to help Indians by working in the private sector.
Anderson is the Dave of Famous Dave’s barbeque restaurants. Guess he found the BIA a little tougher than the restaurant business.
At Beats Per Minute there’s a quick review of Tony Hillerman’s Skeleton Man by someone who grew up on the Navajo Reservation.
Christopher Reynolds gives up the Wild West column at the Los Angeles Times and tells us Six truths from the wild before packing it in.
Letterman did a salute to Johnny Carson last night (he was away last week). The monologue consisted entirely of jokes Carson had sent him. “Getting a call from Carson with jokes was ‘like Christmas morning, for God’s sake,’ Letterman said.” CNN.com has the story.
And there’s this from Dwight Perry’s Sideline Chatter:
Dan Daly of the Washington Times, noting broadcaster Dick Vitale will be 72 by the time his new contract with ESPN and ABC expires in 2012: “Here’s hoping he isn’t a Diaper Dandy by then.”
February …
from the Roman republican calendar month Februarius, named for Februa, the festival of purification held on the 15th. The name is taken from a Latin word, februare, meaning “to make pure”.
February One
From PBS FEBRUARY ONE:
In one remarkable day, four college freshmen changed the course of American history. On February 1, 1960, Ezell Blair, Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan), David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil—later dubbed the Greensboro Four—began a sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in a small city in North Carolina. The act of simply sitting down to order food in a restaurant that refused service to anyone but whites is now widely regarded as one of the pivotal moments in the American Civil Rights Movement.
The Greensboro Woolworth’s lunch counter was integrated in July 1960.
Movie immortals …
John Ford and Clark Gable were born on this date. Ford in 1895; Gable in 1901.
John Ford won six Oscars for Best Director: The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941) and The Quiet Man (1952). The other two Oscars were for World War II documentaries: The Battle of Midway and December 7th. Other memorable films include Drums Along the Mohawk, Young Mr. Lincoln, Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine and The Searchers. Regardless of where Ford’s westerns were set, most of the exteriors were filmed in Monument Valley Arizona/Utah.
Clark Gable won the Best Actor award in 1935 for It Happened One Night. He was nominated for Best Actor for Mutiny of the Bounty and Gone With the Wind.
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