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The Troubled Air

I was in college, in the late 1950s, when I first read The Troubled Air, the book Irwin Shaw wrote in 1951 after the great success of his outstanding World War II novel, The Young Lions. The Troubled Air was… Continue Reading →

Garbo Revisited

Every now and then the name of Greta Garbo is injected into a conversation (sometimes by me). It is always surprising, and even a little disappointing, to find many people, including some close to my age, who have never seen… Continue Reading →

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The Obi-Wan Machine – a short story

The Obi-Wan Machine a short story Stephen A. Geller Nobody knows Ira Bissel. Bill Gates doesn’t know Ira. Warren Buffet doesn’t know Ira. J. Edgar Hoover, were he alive and still busily running around the FBI in… Continue Reading →

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Musing of a Contemporary Pathologist

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