Jon Anderson

Writing love letters for others, an art form made popular by the late Cyrano de Bergerac, is back in vogue. In the movie ''Roxanne,'' a strong swain who is weak...

Times were when baseball fans who wanted to pitch for the Washington Senators, defeat the ''Damn Yankees'' and hear a packed stadium roaring their names in delirious victory chants had...

One reason families were invented--just after the discovery that living in caves could be fun--was to impart information to young persons, a function that became more difficult after the introduction...

The biggest object ever stolen by one man was the SS Orient Trader, a 10,639-ton freighter moored in the St. Lawrence Seaway at Wolfe`s Cove in Quebec. On a moonless...

One problem with turtle racing is that, unlike horses, they do not ''come spinning out of the turn.'' Indeed, when the seventh Midwest Turtle Swim takes place Sunday in the...

Throughout history, reform movements have tried to upgrade the moral and social tone of humanity, a thrust now causing pain at St. Marys Paper Inc., which operates a pulp and...

In the taming of the American West, a process led by the late John Wayne, rowdy bars played an important role, pulling together brigands, ne`er-do-wells and other low life in...

According to Sigmund Freud, the two necessities of ''the good life'' are to work well and to love well, a philosophy that completely neglects laundry. To fill that void, several...

Napoleon, who answers his own phone, is alive and living in Southern California, about 15 miles east of San Diego, where he writes books and teaches at the Unarius Academy...

In Puritan times, wooden stocks were installed on village greens to publicly humiliate people who lacked piety, neglected church, played games on Sunday, spread gossip, got boisterous or got caught...