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Married to Laughter
The current generation knows him as the serenity-seeking Frank Costanza from Seinfeld. An older generation knows him as one-half of the comedy team Stiller and Meara. But, as his memoir, Married to Laughter, reveals, Jerry Stiller has had a lifelong love affair with entertainment. Growing up during the Depression in Brooklyn and on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Jerry Stiller discovered the power of comedy when, as a child, he saw Eddie Cantor transform an audience. Jerry's father often took him to vaudeville performances, where Jerry decided that he, too, wanted to make people laugh. He studied drama at Syracuse University, where a charismatic professor inspired Jerry to believe that he could...
The Pacific Reporter
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Magazine of Sigma Chi
Vol. 31, no. 2 (p. [273]-329) includes, as supple., Minutes of the Inter-Fraternity Conference for 1911.
The Alcalde
As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."
Kansas Reports
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The Worst of Times, the Best of Times
A reconstruction of life in the North End of Winnipeg before World War II through interviews with 18 persons, children of Jewish immigrants, who achieved prominence in various fields. Mentions manifestations of antisemitism, such as restrictions in employment and in residential areas and after-school beatings of Jewish children by neighborhood gangs. Mentions the numerus clausus at Manitoba Medical College and the rejection of a Jewish student to represent the University of Manitoba Debating Union. also mentions the growth of fascism in the 1930s, with Brownshirt meetings held in rural districts around Winnipeg, and the marshalling of forces in opposition which resulted in the passage of the Manitoba Defamation Act, the first group libel law in Canada.
Yost Family History
This book was over four years in the writing. It is a comprehensive history of the Yost family line. From the Yost name originating in Southern Germany in the 12th Century to the first Yost's to come to America including Hans Casper Yost and his brothers and sisters. The book is 564 pages. It contains Census, Land Grants, War Records, and family photos tracing the Yost family as they spread across America. The book also contains information and proof of famous Yost's including John Yost who made a rifle for President George Washington in March 1770 for 6 and 10 Shillings. Fielding "Hurry Up" Yost famous for the "Points a minute" football team. It contains numerous family names as the Yost's ...
