While Rita Moreno was performing in Lorraine Hansberry's play "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" at the Longacre Theatre in New York, a physician named Leonard Gordon asked her to a Ne

A woman who calls herself Wooka85257 online remembers two great kindnesses done for her many years previously when she became a widow while she was pregnant. She was 24 years old and three months preg

• As a teenager, Dorothy Hamill sometimes got upset at important competitions, but fortunately her father was present to help her calm down. At the 1974 World Championships, young Dorothy skated

Andrew Buckingham was 13 years old when he started to write comedian Kenneth Williams, co-star of many British "Carry On" movie comedies. The correspondence lasted almost three years, ending

Musician Mirah Zeitlyn spent time in the early '90s in Olympia, Wash. While she was at Evergreen State College, she organized her record collection according to gender. Why? She explains, "Somet

I recently received a silly communication from Bill Johnson, our representative in the House of Representatives, who wants me to think that Republicans want to save Medicare. Sorry, but the House of Representatives' Republican plan involves vouchers that people are supposed to use to buy health insurance in the marketplace. Unfortunately, the vouchers don't cover all the cost of buying health insurance, which means citizens paying lots of money out of their pockets to cover the premiums.

• Boston Red Sox player Carl Yastrzemski's father had the chance to play minor-league baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers, but unfortunately it was during the Great Depression, and so he turned them down so he could continue working on his potato farm and be sure that his family could eat. However, he was determined that his son would have a chance to be a professional baseball player and so he did things such as form his own baseball team.

If you become a soldier, you will be issued ID tags, aka dog tags. Their purpose is to help identify your corpse if you are killed in such a way that your features are not recognizable or if your corpse is not buried right away and so your features become unrecognizable.

After writing "Bud, Not Buddy," author Christopher Paul Curtis heard that it was being considered for both the Newbery Award, which is given to the best American children's book published each year, and for the Coretta Scott King Award.(Honor books are second-place winners.)

Agnes de Mille says, "I'm not a Massine fan at all." When Lonide Massine was at Covent Garden, his many fans were numerous and enthusiastic. Ms. de Mille used to attend performances of his works at Covent Garden and be very quiet. Meanwhile, members of the audience would cheer madly, be wildly extravagant in their love for Massine and his art and glare at Ms. de Mille because she did not share their enthusiasm for all things Massine. Once, Massine was introduced at Covent Garden as "certainly the greatest choreographer we have living and probably ever have had." Ms. de Mille immediately thought of Martha Graham and of Anthony Tudor.