Chris Smith
Columnist at The Press Democrat
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
pressdemocrat.com | Chris Smith
Lee Torliatt was a native-born Sonoma County high school teacher, newspaper reporter and author of local history who seemed born to write and tell stories — most of them true. The lean and lanky Torliatt, who died April 12 at 92, possessed a wit as sharp and dry as a Bedouin’s dagger. He savored causing people to ponder whether something outlandish that he said or wrote was a joke.
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3 weeks ago |
petaluma360.com | Chris Smith
Finally discharged from the hospital in 1959, Lee Torliatt, then 26, enrolled at what was then called San Francisco State College. To help pay the bills, he worked summers on the copy desk of the San Francisco Chronicle. Ryo became a luncheon hostess at the landmark Trader Vic’s restaurant, where she met the likes of newspaperman Herb Caen, French singer-actor Maurice Chevalier and Nina Kukharchuk, future wife of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
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3 weeks ago |
petaluma360.com | Chris Smith
Finally discharged from the hospital in 1959, Lee Torliatt, then 26, enrolled at what was then called San Francisco State College. To help pay the bills, he worked summers on the copy desk of the San Francisco Chronicle. Ryo became a luncheon hostess at the landmark Trader Vic’s restaurant, where she met the likes of newspaperman Herb Caen, French singer-actor Maurice Chevalier and Nina Kukharchuk, future wife of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
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1 month ago |
pressdemocrat.com | Chris Smith
Carrillo said players on opposing teams knew “you always played your hardest when you played the Perry A’s.”The league’s current president, Kinsey Lawrence, said there are good reasons that the Westside baseball park alongside rural Wright Elementary School is named John Perry Field. She said she’s worked with many Little League coaches, some wonderful ones.
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1 month ago |
pressdemocrat.com | Chris Smith
Phyllis Shapiro, a pillar of an old and leading Sonoma County family, was pleased that among her roles in the community was being the woman behind The Tootsie Roll Man. Her husband of nearly six decades was the comical and widely adored attorney Everett Shapiro, a prominent Jewish leader who one-upped Santa Claus by doling candy by the bushel to kids in and around Santa Rosa all year long.
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