Monthly Archives: February 2014

BAD BOY DRIVING by Peter Nolan Smith

February 8, 2014 – 1:03 pm

In the fall of 1973 my college comrade Paul Deseret and I worked at the Hi-Hat Lounge in Brighton. The pay for busboys wasn’t much, but the girls were young, the drinks were cheap, and we could sell quaaludes and mescaline at the bar. Neither of them were the best available in Boston, but we […]

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American Cool

February 6, 2014 – 6:53 pm

This week the AMERICAN COOL photo exhibition opened at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Cool reserve was a specialty of the British upper-class, however true coolness originated with the Yoruba concept of Itutu, which according to Wikipedia is a combination of gentleness, generosity and grace coupled with the ability to defuse fights and disputes. The […]

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GLATT BACCHUS by Peter Nolan Smith

February 5, 2014 – 3:54 pm

These days most people in America survive from paycheck to paycheck and New York’s Diamond District has been feeling the pinch, so that my bosses Richie Boy and his father Manny couldn’t offer me a place behind the counter upon my return from the Orient. “It’s brutal out there.” Manny always kvetched about business, but […]

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High Flying Emily Cook

February 5, 2014 – 12:08 pm

My grandfather Frank A Smith was slated to join the 1912 US Olympic team as a pole vaulter, except he broke his leg during the trials. The event in Oslo was won by a 4.02 meter effort by Marc Wright from Cambridge, MA. He was probably from Harvard. For two generations nobody in my family […]

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Gloria Leonard RIP

February 5, 2014 – 11:39 am

The Daily News reported that Gloria Leonard, a ex-porn actress who was also a publisher of High Society magazine, died at the age of 73 in Hawaii. The buxom brunette was a 35 year-old single mother, when she starred in the legendary MISTY BEETHOVEN. The nice Jewish girl from the Bronx fought for free speech […]

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