Twombly Gone

from NY Daily News and AP Celebrated American painter Cy Twombly loses cancer battle, dies at 83 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cy Twombly’s 1961 painting ‘Ferragostso 1.’ (Tate via Bloomberg News) ROME – Celebrated American painter Cy Twombly, whose...

The Sausage-Haters

from The Atlantic The Hot Dog Files: 12 Tales From America’s Era of Sausage-Hating Before FDR helped the hot dog become a Fourth of July favorite, it was an outcast associated with squalor, crime, and moonshine On the evening of October 20, 1909, 600...

Inventor of the Weed Eater Gone

from MySanAntonio.com Houston man who invented Weed Eater dies at 85 HOUSTON (AP) — George C. Ballas Sr., a Houston entrepreneur best known for inventing the Weed Eater, has died. He was 85. Ballas’ son, Corky Ballas, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that...