Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Will Cyprus make us all Joe DiMaggio's?

Will Cyprus make us all Joe DiMaggio's? What am I talking about? Am I saying Cyprus will make us great baseball players? Hardly,but according to Richard Ben Cramer's(who recently passed away in Jan.,of this year, and we lose of a great talent- but more on him later) book "Joe DiMaggio:The Hero's Life" in 1989 when had Bay World Series and earthquake cancel a game,one of the first to leave the stadium,with police escort was Joe DiMaggio,he rushed  home and took out Hefty Bags,big black plastic bags) full of 600,000 thousand dollar,that's cash money,I guess he didn't trust banks,kind of ironic since for many years he did commercials for Bowery Saving Bank.Today after Cyprus people might start putting cash in Hefty Bags instead of Banks.
By the way,I was familiar with Bowery Saving Bank for my grandfather open account for me at they main Branch,which was near Grand Central Station.Beautiful building,today I think it's fancy restaurant,it was old fashion bank building impressive in scope,hugh and it had cages one got feeling your money was safe,but turn out it wasn't I think it was swallowed up in Saving Loans crisis of 1980's,not sure but was brought out by other financial instruction.
Richard Ben Cramer was great writer and was sad to learn today he had just died in Jan. of this year.I first become familiar with his work with his book,"What it takes" dealing with Presidential race of 1988.Some might be impressed that he win a Pulitzer Prizes.I am not,because prizes are too often given politics,not merritt.Look Obama was President no more then month and win the Nobel Prize for Peace,while other hand,Ronald Regan win war without firing a bullet and he ignored by these fools.And of course maybe worse journalist history Walter Duranty win a Pulitzer.Duranty a reporter from New York Times,in 1930's reporting from the Soviet Union used his poison pen to serve the interested of Joseph Stalin.

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