08 July 2020

The Boy in the Badger Hole

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In June 1873, a young boy living on a farm in Springfield, Manitoba , outside Winnipeg, went missing. His family and neighbors searched th...
22 May 2020

Family Puzzles

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I grew up doing jigsaw puzzles with my family. There were puzzles for the whole family that took up a side table or a dedicated board. And t...
16 May 2020

New Fun with Jack and Bill

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In 1935, National Publications issued its first magazine collection of original comics. New Fun was thus the first comic book from the co...
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14 May 2020

After Catching The Train

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The Train is a 1964 movie about French railroad personnel preventing a German army officer from removing a trainload of paintings from Pa...
06 May 2020

Looking Back on Claude Jarman’s Hollywood

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I read about the child actor Claude Jarman, Jr., before I saw him in a movie, and it wasn’t a complimentary read. The Medved brothers’ Gol...
05 May 2020

Rio Grande and Roman Riding

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Rio Grande is the third western that John Ford made about the US Cavalry with John Wayne as one of the stars. Ford made it only because t...
30 April 2020

Love and the Law in a Terrific Tangle

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A Stranger in Town is a competent B picture from MGM in 1943. It starred Frank Morgan, best remembered as the title character in The Wi...
21 April 2020

The Strange Death of the Virus Vanguard!

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On 20 April, the government of Singapore presented a new tool in the public-health armamentarium fighting the coronavirus epidemic: superh...
07 April 2020

Reading the Monkey

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In this time of pandemic throughout the Great Outside World, Prof. Dina Massachi and the International Wizard of Oz Club have organized a ...
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06 April 2020

The Truth of True Grit

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Charles Portis’s True Grit is a straightforward manhunt story elevated into a great American comic novel by the narrative voice. The na...
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