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Jason Gay’s Sweet Farewell to His Dad
The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay is one of the funniest newspaper columnists around. (See here for further details.) But his piece in Friday’s Journal was more poignant than piquant, since it was a valediction for his father, Ward Gay. From … Continue reading
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Tagged Bud Collins, Cambridge Rindge and Latin, Harry Hopman, Jason Gay, Rod Laver, Wall Street Journal, Ward Gay
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Jason Gay Has Strawberries And Cream With Bud Collins
Venerable tennis savant Bud Collins couldn’t be in the house for Sunday’s gentlemen’s finals at the All England Club (ruptured quad tendon), so estimable Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay was in Collins’s Brookline house to view it with him. … Continue reading
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Tagged All England Club, Brookline, Bud Collins, Jason Gay, strawberries and cream, Wall Street Journal, Wimbledon
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Brubeck Wreck
Earlier this week the hardworking staff said it would record the new Dave Brubeck documentary – Dave Brubeck, In His Own Sweet Way – produced by Clint Eastwood. We also said we would dig out tape of our 1970s interview … Continue reading
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Tagged ArtsJournal, Bud Collins, Clint Eastwood, Dave Brubeck, Mary Lou Williams, Red Auerbach
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