Chris Kornelis
Obituarties Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
Reporter @WSJ. [email protected]
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5 days ago |
wsj.com | Chris Kornelis
Ignored by the medical establishment, Bernstein went to medical school in his mid-40s to gain credibilityRichard Bernstein was flipping through a medical trade journal in 1969 when he saw an advertisement for a device that could check blood-sugar levels in one minute with one drop of blood. It was marketed to hospitals, not consumers, but Bernstein wanted one for himself. He had been sick his entire life and was worried he was running out of time.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Chris Kornelis
Along with her husband, she created a retail empire with thousands of stores, addressing the needs of women entering the workforceThe year 1962 belongs in the annals of discount retailing history. Sam Walton opened the first Walmart, S.S. Kresge opened the first Kmart, and Dayton Co. opened the first Target. And in an abandoned shoe factory in Stamford, Conn., Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe opened the first Dressbarn (which at the time was styled as Dress Barn, two words).
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Chris Kornelis
He said he was determined to make ski boots ‘comfortable and supportive, which they had never been’Learning to ski has never been easy, but getting into the sport used to be a real pain. You could place a lot of blame on the boots. The leather ski boots that were standard issue through the 1960s would quickly break down and lose their support—especially the rentals that many beginners wore on their first trips up the mountain.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Chris Kornelis
One of Nichole Beattie’s most vivid childhood memories is the day she heard screaming coming from the basement. It was her mother. The basement of their home in Stillwater, Minn., is where her mother, Melody Beattie, did her writing in the mid-1980s. All day and through much of the night, she sat cross-legged in a cement-walled, windowless storage room—a cigarette perpetually stuck between her teeth—typing on a Kaypro computer with green text that marched across its tiny screen.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Chris Kornelis
When David Myers would walk home from school as a child, he’d often take a detour to explore a gully filled with lizards, frogs and snakes. One day he saw bulldozers filling in the gully, so he grabbed as many lizards as he could and brought them to the screened-in porch of the family’s home in Orange County in California. It was an early glimpse of who Myers would eventually become: a conservationist on a scale that has few rivals.
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