
The Leisure Class
Four score and five years ago yours truly had his tushie spanked in New Haven Hospital...
Read moreFour score and five years ago yours truly had his tushie spanked in New Haven Hospital...
Read moreThe flame roared on 44th and Vanderbilt at a beer sodden Threading The Needle II book signing kindled by John Burton’s Ivy Style Podcast at J. Pres...
Read moreVignettes from times past when my Loomis Chaffee closest pals Gene Mercy, John Suisman, and yours truly, the three amigos, tripped the light fantas...
Read moreThreading the Needle ~ Upholding Grandpa’s Golden Rules Grandpa Jacobi Press formulated his Golden Rules when he founded his eponymous business car...
Read moreThreading the Needle ~ Behold The Rules Of Ivy Over a decade has passed since I transcribed “The Rules Of Ivy” while asserting my role as co-curat...
Read moreThreading the Needle ~ Campus Corduroy Alan Pakula, a years past J. Press regular and the 1976 director of the film All The President’s Men, made c...
Read moreThreading The Needle II, currently in circulation, affords the opportunity to include my Introduction in our bi-weekly thread. One of my favorite c...
Read moreReturning to my old hometown for the official grand opening of the New Haven J. Press store on 262 Elm Street coupled with my intro to the new Fal...
Read moreGrandpa Jacobi Press’ interaction with the Acheson family goes back to the nineteenth century when he got off the boat, a non-English speaking “gr...
Read moreBack in the early days of JFK’s Camelot Irving Press asked Lou Harris if he might suggest to his boss that J. Press succeed his recently fired cus...
Read moreMy pal Bob Jaffe served many uproarious times with yours truly at Dartmouth, highlight among them, our Speech 15 final exam. Speech 15 conducted i...
Read moreJames Cagney was haunted by Shanghai Lil in the 1933 film Footlight Parade. “I’ve been looking high, and I’ve been looking low, looking for my Sha...
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