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Tuesday Thoughts...




Tuesday Trivia: During WWII, the Berkeley Carteret Hotel and the Monterey Hotel in Asbury Park, New Jersey, became the Royal Navy stone frigate HMS Asbury. HMS Asbury was used as barracks for British sailors sent to collect ships built or repaired in U.S. dockyards.




July 15, 1915: Trust Monopolies because the evil Justice Department says they're being good...

And here we are a century later ... they don't even try to pretend.




July 15, 1925: Robert Shroyer is given 10 lashes across the back for the crime of beating his wife, in a punishment administered in the Frederick, Md., jail. Maryland is one of two states, including Delaware, where whipping is an official penalty, and only for wife-beating.


Maryland's whipping provision is repealed in 1953, and in Delaware in 1972.


July 15, 1925: The prosecution opens and rests its case against John T. Scopes for teaching evolution, all in a day. The testimony in Dayton, Tenn., court comes mostly from witnesses who agree that Scopes read to his high school class about evolution from a biology textbook.

With conditions as hot and stuffy as ever in court, Judge John Raulston opens the day by denying Scopes' motion to quash his indictment and upholding Tennessee's ban on evolution in schools. Prosecutor Thomas Stewart then gives an opening statement that is two sentences long:

Scopes, he says, violated the law by teaching that "mankind is descended from a lower order of animals." Therefore, he has taught a theory which "denies the story of divine creation of man as taught in the Bible," he says, using the exact wording of the statute in question.

In the defense opening, Dudley Field Malone says that while Scopes did indeed teach evolution, he could not violate the key stricture against denying the Bible. "There are millions of people who believe in evolution and in the story of creation as set forth in Bible and who find no conflict between the two. The defense maintains that this is a matter of faith and interpretation, which each individual must determine for himself." He says the defense intends to call witnesses who will show religion and science can be reconciled.


The prosecution then presents its witnesses, of whom two were students in Scopes' science class. Howard Morgan, a solemn-looking 14-year-old, recounts being taught humans descended from one-celled organisms, and are mammals classified with horses, dogs and monkeys.

"Did he tell you anything else that was wicked?" defense attorney Clarence Darrow asks the boy on cross-examination. The courtroom erupts in laughter, with even William Jennings Bryan, the most famous man on the prosecution team, joining in. Morgan answers no.

As the defense's first witness, Darrow calls a zoologist, Maynard Metcalf, and asks him to explain what evolution is. The prosecution objects. The judge excuses the jury: Metcalf can keep testifying, but a decision will be made later as to whether the testimony is admissible.


No idea if anyone still reads Maxwell Bodenheim, but he's a fine enough American bohemian writer and poet: haughty, drunken, girl crazy, a keen Imagist poet and co-founder of The Chicago Literary Times. In New York he became known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians. His writing brought him international notoriety during the Jazz Age of the 1920s. Alcohol and vagrancy took their toll and sadly Bodenheim and his wife Ruth were murdered in a Manhattan flophouse in 1954.


Weinberg was judged insane (sociopathic) and sent to a mental institution.

Maxwell "Bogey" Bodenheim


July 15, 1949: Happy birthday Trevor Horn.


Still a banger. The very first music video that aired on MTV, August 1, 1981.





July 15, 1969: Boris The Animal committed multiple murders, including that of Roman the Fabulist.




Janet Blair...

Janet Blair (April 23, 1921 – February 19, 2007) petite strawberry-blonde who could range from sweet and demure to sharp and peppy, Janet Blair had an ability to outshine stars on occasion but never quite became a star herself. She hoofed her way through Broadway (1942), a gangster story about the Great White Way with George Raft, and was cast opposite Cary Grant in his role as a luckless producer who hires a dancing caterpillar in Once Upon a Time (1944). She played second lead to Rita Hayworth in Tonight and Every Night, a ludicrous tale of the saucy Windmill Theatre in London.

Janet Blair proved a stalwart supporter of the Allied cause, posing in tight sweaters to aid the war effort, and presenting Lord Halifax, the British ambassador in Washington, with a bronze plaque commemorating the entertainers who worked on during the Blitz. When she crossed the Atlantic in 1945 to publicise Tars and Spars, the story of a wartime revue, wan Londoners were struck by her healthy complexion, which had earned her an award for wearing the least make-up in Hollywood.

Back home again she earned plaudits for her part in The Fuller Brush Man, a murder comedy with Sid Caesar (1946) and provided the love interest in The Fabulous Dorseys, about the bandleader brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey (1946). But after The Black Arrow (1948), a disappointing swashbuckler in which she played a haughty Lady Joanna, she was not entirely sorry to have her contract with Columbia ended. "All I got were princess parts," she recalled. "A girl gets tired of being a princess all of the time."

Janet Blair's later work included the television series Smith Family, in which she played the wife of a detective played by Henry Fonda, and such films as Walt Disney's The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, with Buddy Ebsen, and Won Ton Ton, a spoof on the canine star Rin Tin Tin.

Her best film was Night of the Eagle (1962), a supernatural thriller made with Peter Wyngarde in Britain, in which she played a wife who dabbles in witchcraft.

Janet Blair Obit

Izzatullah Wasifi was caught selling heroin to an undercover detective in Las Vegas, NV on July 15, 1987 (on his 29th birthday). He would later become Afghanistan's Anti-corruption chief.
"I was a youngster and youngsters do stuff... I was a Las Vegas boy." Can't make this up!


How anti-corruption chief once sold heroin in Las Vegas


New single by Laramie, Wyoming punks, Teenage Bottlerocket. They were on the bill at $1,000 ticket for the unvaxxed concert in Florida in May 2021.