Roger Kahn wrote baseball’s best book, The Boys of Summer, with a title borrowed from Dylan Thomas, about the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s. But the poem’s first line seems to describe no one so well as Mickey Mantle: “I have seen the boys of summer in their ruin.”
We saw Mickey Mantle in his ruin [...]

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1964: Poitier breaks new ground with Oscar win
The acting profession’s top award has gone to a black actor for the first time.
Sidney Poitier won the best actor Oscar for his role in Lilies of the Field.

In the film, released last year, he played construction worker Homer Smith whom a group of nuns believe was sent [...]

When Jim Sherman heard his neighbor call out for help, he rushed to her rescue, pulling the eighty-four-year-old woman from her burning home in Texas Monday night. Sherman has been blind since birth. The woman he saved is also legally blind.
Sherman and the neighbor, Annie Smith, shared a baby monitor for communication, the Houston Chronicle [...]

It is arguably the most famous small-craft engagement in naval history, and it was an unmitigated disaster. At a later date, when asked to explain how he had come to be a hero, one of the young commanders involved, by then an aspiring politician, replied laconically, “It was involuntary. They sank my boat.”
John F. Kennedy’s [...]