Tag: books
member name: Joseph Ritz
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February 25, 2009 04:49 PM EST --
SNOWBALL
Book review by Joseph P . Ritz
Billionaire Warren Buffett has been the subject of books and articles since the public first became aware his investments . . .
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January 09, 2007 12:14 PM EST --
This is meant mostly for those in the The Quote Boat Group, but anyone can join in.
I recently wrote a play in which Mark Twain introduces Sam Clemens, 34, and his bride of one day.
See . . .
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November 19, 2006 11:56 PM EST --
As the 21st century begins to run on swift feet, things of the last century, cars, computers, cell phones, fashions are increasingly thought of as old.
Old so soon. I am old and remember many Modern Ages. . . .
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February 06, 2007 01:00 PM EST --
I hadn’t intended to read Paul Gallico’s achingly tender, wise and lovingly written THOMASINA — the Cat Who Thought She was God.
I had gone to the local library intending . . .
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January 16, 2007 09:09 PM EST --
I was born a bastard and I’ve remained one all my life. I became a journalist.”
So begins Joseph P. Ritz’s story of his search for his background in his book I NEVER LOOKED FOR MY MOTHER . . .
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January 12, 2007 02:07 PM EST --
At times I read a newspaper or magazine article and I think that the author -- regardless of what the byline says -- is Hyman Kaplan.
Kaplan is author Leo Rosten’s . . .
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September 09, 2006 10:32 AM EDT --
"I was born a bastard and I've been one all my life. I became a journalist."
So begins Joseph P. Ritz's story of his search for his background and his career as a journalist and playwright. . . .
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February 22, 2007 12:33 PM EST --
For most of the years when I was growing up we had no telephone. One reason for this was that for many years we couldn’t afford one. Another reason was that my mother had a poor . . .
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March 20, 2007 05:57 PM EDT --
Jeremiah O’Sullivan was dean of Marquette’s College of Journalism in the 1950s when I was a stuent there. All those who studied under him and the faculty members called him simply, “the . . .
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February 21, 2006 10:44 AM EST --
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I have no idea why my foster mother thought I should play the violin. I . . .
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March 20, 2007 06:20 PM EDT --
Jeremiah O’Sullivan was dean of Marquette’s College of Journalism in the 1950s, when I was a student there. All those who studied under him and the faculty members called him simply, “the . . .
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May 19, 2007 07:44 PM EDT --
I was born a bastard and I’ve remained one all my life. I became a journalist.”
So begins I NEVER LOOKED FOR MY MOTHER AND OTHER REGRETS OF A JOURNALIST.
The book is a journey which . . .
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July 20, 2009 09:32 AM EDT --
‘”Memory is like a long broken night” — Graham Greene
I don’t find that so, but reading a recent biography of the author, The Life of Grahan Greene – . . .
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June 06, 2007 11:07 AM EDT --
I like to tell stories. I have ever since grade school when I found it was a way to get the interest of my schoolmates. Most of my adult life I’ve told stories as a journalist.
Now I’ve . . .
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July 13, 2006 10:24 AM EDT --
I have no idea why my foster mother thought I should play the violin. I had shown no musical talent and we had little money. Nevertheless, she convinced her husband to buy me an old instrument . . .
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