Last month, Carla Hayden was nearing the end of her ten-year term as Librarian of Congress. Appointed by President Barack Obama, Hayden was the 14th Librarian of Congress since 1802. She was a history-maker – the first woman and first Black person to hold the job. Then, on May 8, …
Read More »A visit with “Mr. Baseball” Bob Uecker
Ever since Babe Ruth was waddling around the bases, there have been grim predictions about baseball’s future: Time has passed on the national pastime, too leisurely, too bucolic. Last year’s World Series TV ratings, and this season’s batting averages, both hit 50-year lows. Baseball, they say, is dying. But never …
Read More »Today’s agenda: Cutting down on meetings
Like millions of workers, Kaz Netajian felt strait-jacketed in what seemed like one endless meeting. “I was spending 9-to-5 in meetings,” he said. “I was doing my actual work after 5, and that just made me, like, worse at home and made me worse the next day at work.” And …
Read More »Glass artist Preston Singletary: Shattering expectations
At the Smithsonian’s Museum of the American Indian, in Washington, D.C., an immersive play of light and shadows tells a tale of the beginning of time. “I’ve come, now, to think about the shadows as kind of a spirit within the piece,” said artist Preston Singletary. “It’s something that, you …
Read More »“Greedflation”: Is corporate profit
At Sugar Hill Creamery, in Harlem, the hand-made ice cream will cost you more these days, because, according to owner Petrushka Bazin Larsen, everything costs her more. “Everything is going up, from dairy, milk and cream, to just our cups,” she told correspondent David Pogue. “Costs me more to get …
Read More »Passage: Graphic designer Milton Glaser, creator of the “I ♥ NY” logo
Graphic artist Milton Glaser, whose innovative and iconic designs graced advertising materials for institutions and companies, the covers of books and record albums, posters, grocery store aisles, TV commercials and T-shirts for a half-century, died on Friday, June 26. He was 91. Glaser achieved a certain immortality with his 1977 …
Read More »Meet the “Sunday Morning” Sun Queen
No one can control the weather, but there IS someone at CBS who can make the sun come out. Meet our associate director Jessica Frank, our “keeper of the suns.” For 20 years, she’s been handpicking every shining example of sun artwork to appear on our program – that’s about …
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