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What can be said about people who show up at a hospital and shout that they wish death on two officers being treated for gunshot wounds? And block exits and entrances?
Here’s an interesting headline from foxnews.com: “Antarctica is still free of COVID-19. Can it stay that way?” Approximately 1000 people have wintered there. Others will soon arrive.
Decades, channel 5–5 on over the air antennas in NYC, is running an NYPD marathon. It lasted only a season and half, 49 episodes, from ‘67-’69. It starred one of the greatest supporting actors of all time, Jack Warden, and two who went on to long careers, Robert Hooks and Frank Converse. I watched a couple of episodes. The prints are not in good condition. The content is like a rough cut. Each episode runs only a half hour. Before you know it, it’s done. Given that there are 24 hours in a day, all but one episode will run twice, although there have been times when the station switched to another show on Sunday. I didn’t spot any future superstars. I had one memory of the program. A friend and I watched an episode in the dorm’s TV room. Mario was an Italian-American from the Detroit suburb of Flat Rock (he probably still is an Italian-American). The story was unresolved, like many crimes are, and he walked away in a huff. One weekend he had a visit from a friend. They got drunk and stupid. He was suspended. Uncle Sam found out, and he was drafted and sent to Vietnam. He served the last part of his stint at Fort Hamilton, and said Brooklyn girls were the most beautiful he’d ever seen. To my surprise, he returned to WMU. I would have thought he would have too embittered. He’d survived his tour unscathed physically and seemed fine psychologically. I modeled a minor character in Five Cents after him in a brief meeting at Kalamazoo Airport or, I should say, Kazoo. I changed the name because I took liberties and also because I was not sure if my place reminisces were accurate.
Not much action today at the floating book. My thanks to the woman who delivered a bunch of educational matter geared toward elementary school students, and to Johnny Boy, who did an eight for four swap of books; and to the lovely young woman who bought two Danielle Steel paperbacks; and to Ann, who went home with a massive history of WWII. I’ve said this before, but she is friends with an elderly woman whose four brothers took part in D-Day. I finally remembered to ask if all survived. They did. The aforementioned Jack Warden, who passed away at 85 in 2006, was a paratrooper who missed D-Day because of a broken leg suffered in a night time training jump. Many of his comrades in the elite 101st Airborne were killed. He recovered and fought in the Battle of the Bulge.
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