#SallyTaylor And The #SomethingUnder @Consenses Opening Event W/ @kellygraceart @cyberpr @arielhyatt

John, didjya see this?

Me, trying to flirt.

#KLM is going to rock the house. #layover.

Scored a copy of Bob Ryan's "Scribe," due out in October from Bloomsbury. #bea14 #beahappy2read

Marine fighter pilot, brash ball player, accomplished fisherman

From Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”: Ted was an original; not the traditional, modest, self-effacing hero, but brash, profane, outspoken and guileless. Self-taught and inquiring, he excelled as a Marine fighter pilot, and became one of the most accomplished fishermen in the world. For better and worse, he was always his own man, never a phony—characteristics that helped him outlast his critics and win widespread affection and admiration as he aged. He had three favorite songs, which he played in his mind to help him fall asleep: the “Star Spangled Banner,” the “Marine Hymn” and “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.”

(Photo: Ted Williams entering the cockpit in Korea, 1953. National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)

Ted Williams was quite the cutey as a kid, no?

Ted was candid to a fault

An exclusive excerpt from Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”:  Williams was high strung, filled with nervous energy, always biting his fingernails. Ted’s friends found him candid to a fault, unvarnished. If he didn’t like someone, he would tell him so, to his face, rather than gossip behind his back. “I don’t care for you, fellah,” he might say. 

(PHOTO: Young Ted Williams. May Williams Collection.)

Sarah Jane Cook Dakin and Edmund H. Cook via the City of Boston Archives on Flickr.

Well look what they got at the Harvard Business School. It still works. Who knew?

Love this. How can you not?

"Not Jefferson, Wilson, Churchill, not even FDR, but Herbert, by God, Hoover. …To me, that’s a real man." – Ted Williams on his political views, as quoted in Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s biography of the baseball great, "The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams", to be released on Tuesday, Dec. 3 by LittleBrown. 

(PHOTO: Ted Williams and Ted Kennedy. Ted Williams Family Enterprises Ltd, Inc.)

Perfectly said.

Yaa Gyasi at Brooklyn Public Library, 6/13/16