{"id":573890538,"date":"2018-02-08T23:16:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T05:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573890538"},"modified":"2018-02-11T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T19:00:15","slug":"a-return-to-the-books-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2018\/02\/08\/a-return-to-the-books-section\/","title":{"rendered":"A return to the books section"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I’ll direct your attention to another part of the site. This area is devoted to my grandfather’s books<\/a>. I never got to know the man, he died a few months after I was born. But he was one of those people that you only hear good things about. And, over the years, I’ve been given a few of his things. Including a lot of books. This is a lot of fun because, in his old text books, you see the man as a boy. If you click the link above you’ll see the books already uploaded to the site. <\/p>\n

For the next few installments, I thought we might look at a few publications he had when he was a bit older, because the advertisements are always fun. And so here we have the November 1960 Reader’s Digest: <\/p>\n

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Click the cover and you’ll get four interesting pages out of that issue today. I figure there’s about a month’s worth of material we can check out. Also, check out the main section<\/a> and you can see a classic literature book, some great science illustrations, some notes, newspaper clippings from his youth and more. <\/p>\n

You remember the Manhattan gold heist<\/strong> in 2016. A guy just reached into an armored truck, grabbed a barrel and walked away. No one reacted. It was broad daylight, middle of the city and who he was and how it did it was a mystery, but for the ubiquitous security camera footage. <\/p>\n

Well, that guy got caught and did a little time. And now he’s talking to the media, which makes it a story, which means we talked about it on the podcast. NBC correspondent Chris Pollone returned to the program to tell us all about it. It’s a great episode:<\/p>\n