I like typing in
comic sans ms. It is my favorite font.
Oh well, let us
take a look at my history. You should
click on the links for more info as you read all of this.
My first
introduction to newspapers was when I was in third grade at Public School 35 in
The Bronx. I lived at
940
Grand Concourse and I sold my newspaper which I printed on a small toy
printing press with movable rubber type.
It was called “Laugh and Smile” and just about everyone in the building
bought it. I had a movie review and
other assorted news each week.
For my seventh and
eighth grade, our family moved to Cincinnati,
Ohio where my father was working with his brother in law in the scrap metal
business. I delivered something called
“The Shopping News” each week. It was a
free publication and I can remember delivering hundreds of papers. Many times, my dad had to help me.
When we came back
to
In my junior and
senior year, I worked after school as a copy boy/messenger on the New York Herald
Tribune which was one of the finest newspapers in the
While at The City
College of New York, I started out as reporter doing both news and sports. I became one of the editors on the Observation
Post, one of the two student newspapers at the college.
After college, I
started working at the New York
Times as a messenger, then a copy boy, then a news clerk, then a news
assistant and then a full staff byline reporter. My boss was Clifton Daniel who was the son in
law of President Harry Truman. I was the
youngest full staff reporter on the New York Times at that time and I would
suggest I was probably one of the youngest in the history of the newspaper.
After the New York
Times, I got involved in the taxi business and out of that came the Gabby Cabby. As such, I became the voice of
I did a total of thirty years in the United States Army Reserve and today our three children are career army officers.
I did a weekly show called Upallnight on the BBC for three years. The segment I did was called “The New York Hour” even though it ran for ninety minutes.
Through the years
I have written ooodles of magazine articles about subjects that are interesting
to me. The very first article that I
wrote for a magazine was for Flying
Magazine since I happen to have a pilot’s license and have had one for
fifty years.
People like to
write about me. I have been featured in
many inflight magazines. I have written a
book and I am now working on my next book.
I have done lots
of videos and here are some for you to look at.
Keep in mind that when you download a video on to your computer, it may
take some time, but once you look at it and if you do not save it, it will
leave your computer.