We had some good basketball teams in my day, but nothing like the Miners of 1966. I watched that NCAA final game on a black-and-white TV set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I was a graduate student at Harvard. I had to explain to my classmates who watched it with me exactly what and where Texa...
asked Town & Country, the magazine for rich people. And nobody did, at least among the presidents of two hundred top American corporations. Napoleon hated cats, too. So did Hitler. I recall no U.S. president who was partial to cats. Franklin Roosevelt’s Fala, Richard Nixon’s Checkers, Lyndon ...
And there’s no place in the country—possibly the world—where UFOs are a hotter topic than in Roswell, New Mexico, because in 1947 a UFO either did or didn’t crash near there. In 1993, Congressman Steven Schiff of Albuquerque sicced the General Accounting Office—the investigative arm of Congress—o...
I was sitting in my rocking chair on the porch of my Cove Hollow place, and I seen them coming while they was still some ways off. When I first seen them they was so far away I couldn’t tell they was only three. Then they dipped below a little rise, and I didn’t see them at all for a while. When ...
I was trying to focus on just one of them while it was still up near the window and follow it all the way down to the piece of tin where we set up the stove in winter. Nero, lying outside the screen door, raised her head from between her paws and pricked her ears toward the barn. I heard his sing...