Poor William's Almanack, July 18, 2010, Be Present

Ben Franklin's bifocals Sunday, July 18, 2010

Writer William Thackeray
[1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, author, born in Calcutta, India]

[1903 - Chill Wills, actor, singer, born in Seagoville, Texas]

[1906 - Clifford Odets, playwright, born
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

[1910 - Lou Busch (Louis Ferdinand Bush)
(aka Joe 'Fingers' Carr), pianist, arranger,
composer, born in Louisville, Kentucky]

[1911 - Hume Cronyn (Blake), actor, born in London, Ontario, Canada]

[1913 - Red (Richard Bernard) Skelton, Emmy Award-
winning comedian, born in Vincennes, Indiana]

Joe Hill alive Labor Hero Joe Hill dead showing firing squad bullet holes
[1914 - Joe Hill is sentenced to death in Utah (later executed by firing squad)]

Doughboys at the beginning of Aisne-Marne battle
[1918 - Start of the WW-1 Battle of Aisne-Marne]

Aisne-Marne Cemetary
[The Aisne-Marne Cemetery & Memorial]

R&B musician Screamin' Jay (Jalacy) Hawkins

[1929 - Screamin' Jay (Jalacy) Hawkins, singer, pianist, born in Cleveland, Ohio]

[1937 - Hunter S. (Stockton) Thompson, journalist, author, born
in Louisville, Kentucky]

Be Present

Writers must live in the present because they know that something that is just about to happen may needs end up on the page that they may write.

[The Aisne-Marne Memorial]

William's Whimsical Words:

Writers live in the present and soldiers die in it.

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