Wednesday

Dec. 2, 1998

Bosses

by Tom Wayman

WEDNESDAY 12/2

Poem: "Bosses," by Tom Wayman, from INTRODUCING TOM WAYMAN (Ontario Review Press).

It's the birthday of novelist and short-story writer T. CORGAGHESSAN BOYLE, author of Water Music (1981), born in Peekskill, New York, in 1948.

Engineer PETER CARL GOLDMARK, who developed the first commercial color-television and the long-playing phonograph record, was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1906.

Greek writer and lawyer NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS, famous for his 1946 novel Zorba the Greek, was born in Iraklion, Crete in 1885.

RUTH DRAPER, an actress and writer who gained international acclaim for the dramatic monologues she performed on stage for four decades, was born in New York City in 1884.

People waited in mile-long lines to hear CHARLES DICKENS give his first reading in New York City in 1867.

CHARLES RINGLING, one of the seven Ringling brothers of circus fame, was born in McGregor, Iowa, in 1863.

French painter GEORGES SEURAT, founder and leader of the Neo-Impressionist style called Pointillism, was born in Paris in 1859.

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