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Paths crossed: Al Shanker and some challah dough
Al Shanker was a sexy guy who baked bread. Richard Kahlenberg’s “A School Strike That Never Quite Ended,” opinion piece in the Times reminded me about the 1960’s Ocean Hill-Brownsville public school upheaval, as well as a separate recollection of meeting … Continue reading
Posted in Paths Crossed, Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Al Shanker, Burt Lancaster, challah, Richard Kahlenberg, Robert Redford, teachers union, Union Federal of Teachers
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Paths Crossed: The largest musical instrument in the entire universe
I wrote this some years ago. This week, when I read the Times obit for a remarkable man, Dionisio Lind, the singular musician of the largest musical instrument in the entire universe, I felt it was a good time to … Continue reading
Posted in Paths Crossed, The Facts of Life
Tagged Bill Campbell, carillons, clavier cabin, Dionisio Lind, Heckelphone, padauk, Peter Hurd, Reinhold Niebuhr Place, Riverside Church, Rockefeller Carillon, Whitechapel bell foundry, William Peter
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The day I called the NYPD bomb squad
During much of 1995, I was manning the fort at Peter Neufeld’s one-man law office. Peter himself was in Los Angeles most of the time, as part of the O.J. Simpson defense team. Part of my job was answering the … Continue reading
Posted in Law, suits and order, Paths Crossed, The Facts of Life
Tagged Mark Fuhrman, NYPD bomb squad, OJ Simpson, Peter Neufeld, phone call death threats, phone taps, phone traps
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