by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. It came by courier about two months ago. I was at home, feeling poorly. I signed for the package, but confess I didn’t open it right away; I felt so terribly. I shall always wonder if it would have made any difference in the end. Of course, I …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. This is an article about something you’ve craved, desired, wished for… but now, aging and chagrined, know you will never have… never be any closer to than when you were sixteen or the last time you seriously consulted “Esquire” for a fashion make over. And that is financial …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author’s program note. On April 14, 1958 two gigantic nations, antithetical in viewpoint, each intent on destroying and humbling the other, put aside their terrible rancor to listen to a pale young man, a riot of blond curls with God’s own harmony in his astonishingly wide hands. The occasion was the …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author’s program note. This is the story of how a lifetime’s respect and admiration was destroyed in minutes by a man of power and influence who was thoroughly obtuse when it came to the crucial business of human existence, the business Dale Carnegie called “how to win friends and influence people” …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author’s program note. If you, like me, delight in films in the grand tradition, films that actually explored — and beautifully, too — every aspect of the human condition and not just every nuance of violence, mayhem, personal menace and woe, you know the scene I’m about to recall. It is …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author’s program note. It is 6:31 a.m. The dawn is still struggling to arrive pushing away the chill detritus of a yesterday now gone forever; the only part of that yesterday now extant the clear admonition from God Himself when He turned out (half) the lights at the 2013 Superbowl …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author’s program note. I am still unclear even after all these years how I ended up at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa (founded 1853). But it probably went something like this. My grandmother Lura Marshall Lant graduated from Knox College (founded in 1837) in Galesburg, Illinois; it was in the same …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author’s program note. I am about to do you the biggest favor of your life. For right here, right now I am going to introduce you to a svelte California grandmother named Linda Elze… and I can assure you it’s a contact you will cherish, the way so many all over …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author’s program note. In 1955 when I was just 8 one of the happiest of books hit the best seller lists… and launched a glittering palace (it was far too lucrative to be considered just a “cottage”) industry that continues to this very day. The book was Patrick Dennis’ delicious confectionery …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. Author’s program note. I admit it. I am a presidential buff. I have been for all of my 66 years. I like reading about them, can’t get enough of their early lives, campaigns, policies and peccadilloes, and the tragedies and obsequies which I regard with the same high seriousness and reverence …