Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Casey Johnson is just the latest reminder: Casey Johnson, the socialite daughter of New York Jets owner Woody Johnson and heiress to the Johnson & Johnson business empire has died, a spokesman for the family and police said. She was 30. TMZ.com reported that Johnson was found dead Monday. Police officers responded to her Los …
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A nice view this time of year; it comes from the Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan, FL, taken in June 2001, before 9/11 and most of the craziness of this decade past.
It is with sadness that I note the death of Prince Alexandre de Rethy, whose 1965 visit to Palm Beach (and our home) was documented in the piece A Royal Visit: Prince Alexandre de Rethy’s Visit to Palm Beach. He passed away 29 November 2009 due to an acute pulmonary embolism. He was 67. My …
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VirtueOnline chronicles the adventures of the Rev. Marta Weeks in her quest for same sex marriage: The American Anglican Council blew the whistle on the "Listening process" revealing that a $1.5 million gift came from The Rev. Marta Weeks, a retired Episcopal priest. Now Meeks openly advocates same-sex blessings. The money given by the Episcopal …
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Joyce Reingold at the Shiny Sheet assures us that it's so: But after a review of 2,000 AP news stories from the past year, it’s official: Florida is the weirdest news state of all. In fact, not only was The Sunshine State the biggest source of strange news, it was the “runaway winner,” according to …
It's good news (hopefully) for at least some of these he cleaned out: Auctioneers did better than expected during a sale of items that once belonged to Bernard and Ruth Madoff. The Saturday auction in New York, run by Gaston & Sheehan, netted $1 million for Madoff victims. The auction is part of a series …
The esteemed Palm Beach Day Academy brought in author Jerry Spinelli on this subject: Striding to the front of the auditorium to launch his talk, the father of six made another important point: Don't overlook the value of failure and the importance of persistence. He quizzed the kids about what they would do if they, …
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I'm taking my series of videos of music alluded to in the novel The Ten Weeks in a different direction this week with Smokey Robinson's "Tears of a Clown," a television performance that is very much from the time the song was released (and the setting for the novel too.) But it brings up something …
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When it comes to selling the property to the Palm Beach Day Academy: A bid to sell the Unity of the Palm Beaches for $3.65 million to the Palm Beach Day Academy failed to win the required approval from church members at an Oct. 4 vote. But the deal is not dead yet, say officials …
Americans for Limited Government and Net Right Nation are rightfully indignant at this: Americans for Limited Government is appalled that an employee of the NBC news network apparently felt it was appropriate to send an email to an ALG employee, in response to a standard news release, saying, "Bite me, Jew Boy." According to ALG …
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