Jon Mooallem
Writer-at-Large at The New York Times
(not on here) Author, SERIOUS FACE, THIS IS CHANCE! and WILD ONES.
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1 week ago |
tntribune.com | Jon Mooallem
George Bell was 7 feet 8 inches tall. He was so tall that strangers were constantly coming up to him to take pictures and ask the same dumbstruck question: “How tall are you?”; that he learned early on to request two beds end-to-end when he made hotel reservations; that children would rush outside after church, needing to see how the quiet colossus they’d been staring at in the pews would manage to get into his regular-size car.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Jon Mooallem
The AT&T technician predated Edward Snowden by seven years, but his allegations were never able to achieve tractionIn October 2003, the AT&T technician Mark Klein was transferred to a small office on San Francisco’s Folsom Street where he was tasked with maintaining the seventh floor “internet room,” where fiber-optic cables carried billions of bits of data across the company’s network every second.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Jon Mooallem
George Bell was 7 feet 8 inches tall. He was so tall that strangers were constantly coming up to him to take pictures and ask the same dumbstruck question: “How tall are you?”; that he learned early on to request two beds end-to-end when he made hotel reservations; that children would rush outside after church, needing to see how the quiet colossus they’d been staring at in the pews would manage to get into his regular-size car.
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3 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Jon Mooallem
The former Milwaukee Bucks star owned part of the team, in addition to a business empire that included fast-food franchises and Coca-Cola bottling operationsJunior Bridgeman spent 10 of his 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association with the Milwaukee Bucks, who promptly retired his jersey number after he stepped away from the game in 1987.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Jon Mooallem
Uri Shulevitz arrived at the New York offices of Harper & Row publishers one day in 1962 without an appointment, portfolio in hand. Shulevitz was a recent immigrant, living hand-to-mouth, and looking for illustration gigs to make ends meet. The editor he met with, Susan Hirschman, asked why he wasn’t writing and illustrating his own stories instead. Shulevitz had never considered it. Writing “seemed to me kind of a magical ability,” he later explained. And so, he began lobbing excuses at Hirschman.
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