Haikus: October 2014

HAIKUS: October 2014

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

These haikus were written as exercises in mindfulness—
an attempt to catch the fleeting moment in my daily walks,
while reading, listening to music, and pondering about life.
(Underlined words are not for emphasis but to web links.)
This web page best viewed with Times font size 14.

Wednesday, October 1, 2014, 12:18-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Born October 1:
King Henry III (1207); James Lawrence (1781);
Annie Besant (1847); Paul Dukas (1865);
William Boeing (1881); Louis Untermeyer (1885);
Stanley Holloway (1890); Vladimir Horowitz (1903);
Otto R. Frisch (1904); Everett Sloane (1909);
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914); Walter Matthau (1920);
James Whitmore (1921); Jimmy Carter (1924);
William Rehnquist (1924); Laurence Harvey (1928);
George Peppard (1928); Richard Harris (1930);
Julie Andrews (1935); Rod Carew (1945);
Mark McGwire (1963); Matt Cain (1984);
Events on October 1 (1961)—

Yankees Roger Maris
hits 61st home run breaking
Babe Ruth's 60 set in 1927. Wednesday, October 1, 2014, 12:18-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Born October 2:
King Richard III (1452); Nat Turner (1800);
Paul Hindenburg (1847); Ferdinand Foch (1851);
William Ramsay (1852); Mohandas Gandhi (1869);
Cordell Hull (1871); Wallace Stevens (1879);
Groucho Marx (1890); Bud Abbott (1897);
Coco the Clown (1900); Charles S. Draper (1901);
Graham Greene (1904); Jack Parsons (1914);
Maury Wills (1932); John B. Gurdon (1933);
Rex Reed (1938); Steve Sabol (1942);
Don McLean (1945); Donna Karan (1948);
Annie Leibovitz (1949); Sting (G. Sumner) (1951);
Events on October 2 (1967)—

Thurgood Marshall becomes
the first black person to serve
on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Thursday, October 2, 2014, 3:00-5:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Vladimir Kush
(born 1965, Moscow); "Sunshine Surrealist"
(Vladimir Kush's art is wholesome for the whole
family) (By Greg Stacy, OC Weekly, 6-7-2007);
"Departure of the Winged Ship" (2000) depicts
a galleon with giant, living butterflies for sails
gliding across a sparkly sea while little Dali-esque
silhouette-people wave fluttering banners
from the shore.

Kush says he's not a surrealist
but a metaphorical artist
exploring mythologies. Thursday, October 2, 2014, 3:00-5:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Vladimir Kush
(b. 1965, Moscow); "Kush creates new mythologies" ("Current" represents the current of time. Water is infinite, tree rings are finite.) (By Tyler Midkiff, Sedona Red Rock News, 3-16-2007); "Sunrise by the Ocean" (1998): The egg symbolizes rising Sun & beginning of life. In many creation myths, a cosmic egg is laid by a giant bird in a formless, ancient ocean.

Egg splits into two— sky & earth
appear from the halves of it, while
the sun is seen in the yolk.

Thursday, October 2, 2014, 6:10-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Roy William Neill directs
"The Woman in Green" (1945) with Basil Rathbone,
Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Henry Daniell,
Paul Cavanagh, Matthew Boulton, Eve Amber,
Frederick Worlock, Tom Bryson, Sally Shepherd,
Mary Gordon; (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(YouTube: Trailer, Full film)

Holmes deduces that
Professor Moriarty is behind
murdering several young women. Thursday, October 2, 2014, 7:30-8:50 pm
Stanford Theatre: Harry Lachman directs
"Charlie Chan in Rio" (1941) with Sidney Toler,
Victor Sen Yung, Harold Huber, Jacqueline Dalya,
Iris Wong, Kay Linaker, Ted North, Victor Jory,
Mary Beth Hughes, Cobina Wright, Ann Codee,
Truman Bradley, Richard Derr; (YouTube: full film);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Charlie Chan Site

Charlie comes to Rio
to arrest nightclub singer
for murder done in Honolulu.

Friday, October 3, 2014, 4:26-5:35 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center:
Born October 3: John Ross (1790); George Bancroft (1800); Mikhail Lermontov (1814); Sir Patrick Manson (1844); William C. Gorgas (1854);
Eleonora Duse (1858); Pierre Bonnard (1867);
Emily Post (1873); Warner Oland (1879);
Carl von Ossietzky (1889); Louis Aragon (1897);
Leo McCarey (1898); Thomas Wolfe (1900);
James Herriot (1916); Gore Vidal (1925);
Chubby Checker (1941); Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954); Gwen Stefani (1969); Neve Campbell (1973);
Events on October 3 (1990)—

West & East Germany ended
45 years of postwar division
declaring a new unified country. Friday, October 3, 2014, 4:26-5:35 pm
Los Altos Hills: Krause Center: Born October 4:
King Louis X (1289); Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515); Charles IX of Sweden (1550);
Richard Cromwell 1626; Jean-François Millet (1814);
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822); Sidney Paget (1860);
Frederic Remington (1861); Edward Stratemeyer (1862); Damon Runyon (1884); John B. Kelly, Sr. (1889); Buster Keaton (1895); Brendan Gill (1914);
Charlton Heston (1923); Alvin Toffler (1928);
Kurt Wüthrich (1938); Anne Rice (1941);
Tony La Russa (1944); Susan Sarandon (1946);
Events on October 4 (1957)—

Space Age began as Soviet
launched Sputnik, the first
man-made satellite into orbit.

Friday, October 3, 2014, 7:45-9:02 pm
Palo Alto: 957 Colorado Ave (Friend's House)
Waverley Writers Poetry Reading: Janice liked my "Bamboos" poem & enjoyed going to Foothill College Bamboo Garden; Ride home with Gene Lee

I read two poems tonight:
"Bamboos for Blessings" and
"Robert Wise Honors Marni Nixon". Friday, October 3, 2014, 7:45-9:02 pm
Palo Alto: 957 Colorado Ave (Friend's House)
Waverley Writers Poetry: Elizabeth Chapman reads
"Wild-Card" (after Giants lost to Dodgers 9/25);
Poem broadcast on KNBR 680 AM with Marty Lurie

The Giants is one scrappy team.
Lurie says "When September
comes, the Pros take over.

Saturday, October 4, 2014, 10:54 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center:
Ernest Hemingway; Hemingway's Paris (Painting); (Hemingway Paris Café Photos: 1, 2, 3); Flappers;
Hemingway's first book: The Sun Also Rises (1926);
Saturday Evening Post 1920s covers

Photos of Hemingway
in Paris Cafés show him
sitting against the wall. Saturday, October 4, 2014, 10:54 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center:
F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise (1920);
Flappers & Philosophers (1920); The Beautiful and Damned (1922); Tales of the Jazz Age (1922);
The Great Gatsby (1925)

Fitzgerald writes about
fashion and lifestyle
in the roaring twenties.

Sunday, October 5, 2014, 4:24-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: Perils & Pleasures of a Creative Life (2013)808.02Shapiro;
p. 42: Woodworker George Nakashima (website; Life, 6-12-1970) believed when a true craftsman brought out the grain that had been imprisoned in tree trunk, he "found God within."; p. 52: "stand at the base of a mountain, with humility & grace, bow to it." p. 215—

The wisest share one trait—
curiosity. Court astonishment.
Seek breathless wonder. Sunday, October 5, 2014, 4:24-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Anthony & Ben Holden, Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them (2014) 821.008Poems; pp. 230-232: Film director Marc Foster selects Mary Oliver's "In Blackwater Woods" (1984)— "To live in this world / you must be able / to do three things: / to love what is mortal; / to hold it against your bones

knowing your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes
to let it go, to let it go.

Monday, October 6, 2014, 10:07-10:17 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Gordon Hunt plays
Elevazione for Oboe, Cello and Strings (1715)
by Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726), Listen, CD,
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7); Gordon Hunt played
at wedding of Prince Charles & Camilla (4-9-2005)

Italian composer Zipoli
became a Jesuit priest in
Paraguay, writing heavenly music. Monday, October 6, 2014, 12:11-12:18 pm
KDFC 104.9 FM: Joshua Bell plays
Jules Massenet, Thaïs: Meditation (1894)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Fritz Kreisler, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sarah Chang, Nathan Milstein, Katica Illenyi)

Meditation de Thaïs
by Jules Massenet
played by top violinists.

Monday, October 6, 2014, 12:32-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Born October 5:
Jonathan Edwards (1703); Denis Diderot (1713);
William Scoresby (1789); Chester A. Arthur (1829);
John Addington Symonds 1840; Louis Lumière 1864;
Robert H. Goddard (1882); Walter B. Smith (1895);
Ray A. Kroc (1902); Joshua Logan (1908);
Bob Thaves (1924); Václav Havel (1936);
Bill James (1949); Karen Allen (1951);
Kate Winslet (1975); Events October 5 (1947)—

President Truman delivers
first televised address
from the White House. Monday, October 6, 2014, 12:32-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Born October 6:
Wenceslas III (1289); Martin Behaim (1459); Matteo Ricci 1552; James McGill 1744; Isaac Brock 1769;
Jenny Lind (1820); George Westinghouse (1846);
George H. Lorimer 1867; Karol Szymanowski 1882;
Le Corbusier (1887); Helen Wills-Moody (1905);
Janet Gaynor (1906; Carole Lombard (1908);
Thor Heyerdahl (1914); Britt Ekland (1942);
Elisabeth Shue (1963); Events October 6 (1981)—

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
shot to death by Islamic militants
while reviewing a military parade.

Monday, October 6, 2014, 12:32-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Marie-Louise von Franz, Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche (1997) ($35 for $2) Ch. 5 "The Problem of Evil in Fairy Tales"; p. 75: Hero attains his goal by courage, guile, humor, or luck; heroine by preseverance.

Fairy tales hinge on
the struggle between good
and evil, black and white. Monday, October 6, 2014, 12:32-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Roland B. Tobias, 20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them (1993) 808.3Tobias; Ch. 14: Master Plot #8: Rivalry; p. 124: Rivalry between God & Satan, Adam & the Serpent, Cain & Abel, Captain Ahab & Moby Dick

Whenever two people
compete for a common goal,
you have rivalry.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014, 3:34-6:15 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Free Films
at Stanford: World War I in Film: Lewis Milestone's "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930); (Oct. 9, 2014, 7:30 pm, CEMEX Auditorium, Discussant: James Sheehan); Classics of East European Cinema: Andrzej Wajda's "Ashes and Diamonds" (1958);
(Oct. 7, 2014, 7 pm, Cummings Art Bldg, ART2)

Stanford Flicks website
down, but other free films
worth going to enjoy. Tuesday, October 7, 2014, 3:34-6:15 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: CS122: Artificial Intelligence - Philosophy, Ethics, and Impact (Fall 2014, Tuesday & Thursdays, 2:15-3:30 pm, Hewlett Teaching Center, Rm 201); Instructor: Jerry Kaplan;
Course Overview; "Can Animals and Machines Be Persons?": Outer Limits: Think Like a Dinosaur;
John Searle, "What Your Computer Can't Know"

Goal of CS122 is to
equip students to navigate
the coming age of intelligent machines.

Wednesday, October 8, 2014, 4:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Born October 7:
William Laud (1573); James Whitcomb Riley (1849);
George Cram Cook (1873); Niels Bohr (1885);
Elijah Muhammad (1897); Heinrich Himmler (1900);
Louis Leakey (1903); Chuck Klein (1904); Andy Devine (1905); Jo Jones 1911; Alfred Drake (1914);
June Allyson (1917); R. D. Laing (1927); Desmond Tutu (1931); Amiri Baraka (1934); Diane Ackerman (1948); Vladimir Putin (1952); Yo-Yo Ma (1955);
Simon Cowell (1959); Yundi Li (1982);
Events October 7 (1868)—

Cornell University inauguration day—
October 7, 1868: with Arts Quad
little more than a cow pasture. Wednesday, October 8, 2014, 4:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Born October 8:
Heinrich Schütz (1585); Edmund Steadman (1833);
John Milton Hay (1838); J. Frank Duryea (1869);
Otto Warburg (1883); Edward Rickenbacker (1890);
Juan Perón 1895; Orovida Camille Pissarro 1893;
Rouben Mamoulian (1897); Danny Murtaugh 1917;
Frank Herbert (1920); J. Carter Brown (1934);
Jesse Jackson (1941); Chevy Chase (1943);
R. L. Stine (1943); Sigourney Weaver (1949);
Matt Damon (1970); Bruno Mars (1985);
Events October 8 (1956)—

Don Larsen pitched perfect game
in 1956 World Series as
Yankees beat Dodgers 2-0.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014, 7:00-9:15 pm
Stanford University: Cummings Art Building, ART2
Classics of East European Cinema: Andrzej Wajda
directs "Ashes and Diamonds" (1958); starring
Zbigniew Cybulski, Waclaw Zastrezynski, Adam Pawlikowski, Jan Ciecierski; YouTube: 1, 2, 3; Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4; Martin Scorsese's favorite; Cyprian Norwid poem—

Will the ashes hold
the glory of a starlike diamond—
The Morning Star of everlasting triumph. Thursday, October 9, 2014, 7:30-10:30 pm
Stanford University: CEMEX Auditorium
World War I in Film: Discussant: James Sheehan; Lewis Milestone directs "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930) with Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres,
John Wray, Ben Alexander, Owen Davis, Jr.,
Arnold Lucy, Beryl Mercer; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Erich Remarque's 1929 novel

Last scene: Paul returns to
war— reaches for butterfly
and is shot by enemy sniper.

Thursday, October 9, 2014, 12:57-6:45 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Read Ch. 1-4
of "Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love" (2014) by
C. David Heymann; DiMaggio's first wife Dorothy Arnold starred in "The House of Fear" (1939), not Sherlock Holmes film "The House of Fear" (1945);
Dante & Marilyn: DiMaggio married Dorothy at Saints Peter & Paul Church on November 19, 1939.
Video: Hunter Pence AMAZING Catch at the Wall—
Pence throws his body against the tricky right field
wall at San Francisco's AT&T Park to rob Jayson
Werth of extra-base hit in Game 4 of the NLDS

Giants beat Nationals 3-2
to win NLDS because Hunter Pence
catch prevented more runs to score. Thursday, October 9, 2014, 12:57-6:45 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Born October 9:
Robert de Sorbon (1201); King Charles X (1757);
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835); Emil Fischer (1852);
Alfred Dreyfus (1859); Karl Schwarzschild (1873);
Charles R. Walgreen (1873); Helene Deutsch (1884);
Rube Marquard (1886); Aimee Semple McPherson (1890); Ivo Andric (1892); Bruce Catton (1899);
Alastair Sim (1900); Walter O'Malley (1903);
E. Howard Hunt (1918); John Lennon (1940);
Joe Pepitone (1940); Guillermo del Toro (1964);
Events October 9 (1967)—

Guerrilla leader Che Guevara
was executed in Bolivia while
attempting to incite revolution.

Friday, October 10, 2014, 6:20-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Roy William Neill directs
(1946) with Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce,
Alan Mowbray, Dennis Hoey, Renee Godfrey,
Mary Forbes, Skelton Knaggs, Geoffrey Steele,
Billy Bevan, Harry Cording, Frederick Worlock;
(Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); (YouTube: Trailer, Full film)

Murderer kills three
on train while stealing
Star of Rhodesia diamond. Friday, October 10, 2014, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford Theatre: Harry Lachman directs
"Castle in the Desert" (1942) with Sidney Toler,
Victor Sen Yung, Douglass Dumbrille, Henry Daniell,
Arleen Whelan, Richard Derr, Edmund MacDonald, Ethel Griffies, Lenita Lane; (YouTube: full film);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Charlie Chan Site

Charlie investigates murder
in desert castle inhabited
by descendant of the Borgias.

Saturday, October 11, 2014, 9:01-9:09 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: John Williams (age 82) conducts
Alexander Borodin, String Quartet #2 in D (1881)
3rd movement, Andante "Nocturne", Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); Hoyt Smith said—

Borodin wrote this beautiful music
for his wife Ekaterina Protopopova
on their 20th wedding anniversary. Saturday, October 11, 2014, 9:17-9:46 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Alfred Brendel (age 83)
plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Piano Concerto #21 in C, K. 467 (1785)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3), (Film: 1, 2)

Romantic Mozart music
made famous in film
Elvira Madigan.

Saturday, October 11, 2014, 10:53 am-5:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center:
Born October 10: Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684); Henry Cavendish (1731); Benjamin West (1738);
Benjamin Wright (1770); Giuseppe Verdi (1813);
Maurice Prendergast 1859; Fridtjof Nansen 1861;
Han Van Meegeren (1889); Helen Hayes (1900);
Alberto Giacometti (1901); Frederick Douglass Patterson (1901); R.K. Narayan (1906); Thelonious Monk (1917); James Clavell (1924); Harold Pinter (1930); Ben Vereen (1946); David Lee Roth (1954);
Brett Favre (1969); Evgeny Kissin (1971);
Events October 10 (1911)—

Revolutionaries under
Sun Yat-sen overthrew
China's Manchu dynasty. Saturday, October 11, 2014, 10:53 am-5:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center:
Born October 11: James Barry (1741); Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers 1758; John Thadeus Delane (1817);
George Williams (1821); Henry John Heinz (1844);
Harlan Fisk Stone (1872); Friedrich Bergius (1884);
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884); François Mauriac (1885);
Albert Stoessel (1894); Roman Jakobson (1896);
Charles Revson (1906); Joseph Alsop (1910);
Jerome Robbins (1918); Elmore Leonard (1925);
Nhat Hanh (1926); Steve Young (1961);
Luke Perry (1966); Events October 11 (2001:
V.S. Naipaul won Literature Nobel Prize); (1968)—

Three astronauts aboard
Apollo 7 circled Earth
in 11-Day test for Moon trip.

Saturday, October 11, 2014, 5:53 pm
Los Altos Library— Jack drove me here to buy Julia Cameron, "Right to Write: An Invitation & Initiation into the Writing Life" (1999) ($12.95 for $1); "Writing is a form of prayer & meditation"; p. 100—

Set the ego aside—
tune in to a stream of inspiration
and allow it to flow through us. Sunday, October 12, 2014, 1:15-1:56 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (570 North Shoreline Boulevard),
afterwards gives me ride to Los Altos Library

Russian rye bread, pizzas,
chunk crab meat, yogurt,
pear salad, spinach salad,
almond milk, orange juice.

Sunday, October 12, 2014, 3:49-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Susan M. Tiberghien,
"One Year to a Writing Life: Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer's Art and Craft" (2007)
($15.95 Bought for $1); Writing life to Annie Dillard
("life at its most free"); to Julia Cameron ("writing life is a simple life"); to Stephen King ("a brighter, more pleasant place"); p. xix—

We do this with words—
finding stories in the dark,
sharing them in the light. Sunday, October 12, 2014, 3:49-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Robert B. Silvers & Barbara Epstein (Eds), The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2009) 920.009Company; ($24.95 for $2); (27 accounts from "The New York Review of Books"); Ch. 15: Maurice Grosser on Gertrude Stein & Alice Toklas (pp. 153-163); from NYRB, November 6, 1986); Stein's art collection;

Madame Cézanne with a Fan,
one small André Masson and
two or three Juan Grises.

Sunday, October 12, 2014, 3:49-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Paul Woodruff,
"Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue" (2001)
170Woodruff ($12.95 for $1);

Reverence is a touchstone
for virtues like respect,
humility, and charity. Sunday, October 12, 2014, 3:49-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Bruce Bickel,
"God Is in the Small Stuff" (1998)
231Bickel; ($12.99 for $2); Subtitle—

It all matters— stop
worrying and invite God
into the details of your life.

Sunday, October 12, 2014, 3:49-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Harold Bloom,
"Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?" (2004) 809.9338Bloom ($24.95 for $3); p. 284:
William Butler Yeats said: "Truth could not be known but could be embodied." Bloom: Inverse for wisdom:

We cannot embody wisdom,
yet we can be taught how to know
wisdom... that might make us free. Sunday, October 12, 2014, 3:49-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Dennis L. Prince, "Get Rich with Twitter: Harness the Power of the Twitterverse and Reach More Customers than Ever Before" (2010); ($19.95 for $2); Today's customers want information
in 140 characters or less.

The most successful campaigns
these days are short, sweet,
and right to the point.

Sunday, October 12, 2014, 7:30-9:15 pm
Stanford Theatre: Alfred Hitchcock directs
"Notorious" (1946), starring Cary Grant,
Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern,
Leopoldine Konstantin, Ivan Triesault, Moroni Olsen; (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, Ebert, Rothman essay);
(YouTube: Trailer, Final scene, Full film)

Ben Hecht wrote screenplay
of this romantic story
and Nazi spy thriller. Sunday, October 12, 2014, 9:25-11:26 pm
Stanford Theatre: Howard Hawks directs
"Only Angels Have Wings" (1939) starring
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell,
Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Allyn Joslyn,
Sig Ruma, Victor Kilian; (YouTube: Trailer, 1, 2, 3);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, Blog, Cary Grant FAQ)

Jean Arthur & Rita Hayworth
compete for Cary Grant's love
in the foggy Colombian Andes.

Monday, October 13, 2014, 11:47 am-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: >Born October 12:
King Edward VI (1537); Isaac Newton Lewis (1858); Elmer Sperry (1860); Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872;
Aleister Crowley (1875); Saint Edith Stein (1891);
Eugenio Montale (1896); Grayson Kirk (1903);
Rick Ferrell (1905); Joe Cronin (1906);
Paul Engle (1908); Robert Fitzgerald (1910);
Dick Gregory (1932); Luciano Pavarotti (1935);
Tony Kubek (1936); Chris Wallace (1947);
Susan Anton (1950); Hugh Jackman (1968);
Events October 12 (1492)—

Christopher Columbus
discovers New World with fleet
arriving in present-day Bahamas. Monday, October 13, 2014, 11:47 am-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Born October 13:
Jaques de Molay (1244); Molly Pitcher (1754); Peter Barlow (1776); Rudolf Virchow 1821; Lillie Langtry (1853); Rube Waddell (1876); Yves Allégret (1907); Herblock (1909); Art Tatum (1909); Burr Tillstrom (1917); Yves Montand (1921); Lenny Bruce (1925);
Margaret Thatcher (1925); Eddie Matthews (1931);
Paul Simon (1941); Pamela Tiffin (1942);
Marie Osmond (1959); Jerry Rice (1962);
Sacha Baron Cohen (1971); Paul Pierce (1977); Events October 13 (1960)—

Bill Mazeroski's homer in 9th
of Game 7 wins 1960 World Series
as Pirates defeats Yankees 10-9.

Monday, October 13, 2014, 11:47 am-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Sherry Ellis (Ed.),
"Now Write! Screenwriting: Screenwriting Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers" (2011) 808.23Ellis; Stephen Rivele (1): "Refining the Idea"
pp. 140-142— "Screenplay is an organic being—
a living thing. It's not a mechanical machine."

Character nor plot dictates structure,
meaning dictates structure, and
truth dictates everything. Monday, October 13, 2014, 11:47 am-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Sherry Ellis (Ed.),
"Now Write! Screenwriting" (2011) 808.23Ellis; James Bonnet (1): "Key to Charismatic Characters" pp. 229-232— Characters in Homer's "Iliad" are quintessential: Zeus, most powerful god; Achilles, greatest warrior; Helen of Troy, most beautiful.

Great stories and legends are
dominated by quintessential elements
and is the real key to their success.

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 1:25-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Born October 14:
Akbar 1542; James II 1633; William Penn (1644);
Francis Lightfoot Lee 1734; Elwood Haynes (1857);
Joseph Duveen (1869); Katherine Mansfield (1888);
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890); Lillian Gish 1893;
e. e. cummings (1894); Hannah Arendt (1906);
Allan Jones (1907); John Wooden (1910);
Brendan Gill (1914); Events on October 14—
Charles Yeager, first to break sound barrier (1947); Elie Wiesel wins 1986 Nobel Peace Prize; Aung San Suu Kyi wins 1991 Nobel Peace Prize; (1964)—

Civil rights leader
Martin Luther King Jr. was named
winner of 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 1:25-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Born October 15:
Virgil (70 BC); Evangelista Torricelli (1608);
Allan Ramsay (1686); James Tissot (1836);
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844); John L. Sullivan (1858);
Edith Wilson (1872); Marie Stopes (1880);
P. G. Wodehouse (1881); S.S. Van Dine (1888);
Mervyn LeRoy (1900); C. P. Snow (1905);
John K. Galbraith 1908; Arthur Schlesinger Jr. 1917;
Mario Puzo (1920); Italo Calvino (1923);
Lee Iacocca (1924); Jean Peters (1926);
Jim Palmer (1945); Events October 15 (1964)—

Khrushchev ousted from office,
succeeded by Kosygin as premier
and Brezhnev as party chief.

Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 2:16-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Wrote poem Autumn Leaves inspired by Autumn Equinox comics
of "Mutts" (Earl watching falling leaf) (9-22-2014) & "Peanuts" (Snoopy dancing with leaf) (10-6-2014)

Poem celebrates Autumn
and my moment of discovery
on diversity of leaves from trees. Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 2:16-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Finding leaf
images for poem "Autumn Leaves": Redbud, Ginkgo, Red Oak, White Oak, Eucalyptus, White Ash, Sugar Maple, Elm, Weeping Willow, Sweet Gum, Sycamore

Have leaf photos from hikes
in Bay Area but better to show
one leaf alone for sake of clarity.

Thursday, October 16, 2014, 4:22-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Born October 16:
Albrecht Von Haller (1708); Noah Webster (1758);
Oscar Wilde (1854); David Ben-Gurion (1886);
Eugene O'Neill (1888); Michael Collins (1890); William O. Douglas (1898); Goose Goslin (1900);
Roger Vailland (1907); Angela Lansbury (1925);
Günter Grass (1927); Dave DeBusschere (1940);
Tim McCarver (1941); Suzanne Somers (1946);
Events October 16: People's Republic of China
detonated its first atom bomb (1964); (1859)—

John Brown started an
anti-slavery rebellion
with raid at Harpers Ferry` Thursday, October 16, 2014, 4:22-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Born October 17:
Johann Gerhard (1582); Domenico Zipoli (1688);
Childe Hassam 1859; Ernest Goodpasture (1886); Doris Humphrey (1895); Shinichi Suzuki (1898);
Jean Arthur (1900); Nathanael West (1903); Pope John Paul (1912); Jerry Siegel 1914; Arthur Miller 1915; Rita Hayworth 1918; Montgomery Clift 1920;
Jim "Junior"Gilliam (1928); Jimmy Breslin (1930);
Evel Knievel (1938); Margot Kidder (1948);
Eminem (1972); Events October 17 (1979)—

Mother Teresa of India
awarded 1979 Nobel Peace Prize
for helping destitutes in Calcutta.

Friday, October 17, 2014, 5:35-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Howard Hawks directs
"To Have and Have Not" (1944), Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Marcel Dalio, Dan Seymour; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Hawks and Hemingway worked
on this screenplay together
along with William Faulkner. Friday, October 17, 2014, 7:30-9:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: John Huston directs "Key Largo" (1948), Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, John Rodney; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Books)

Gangster boss Johnny Rocco
wants more, more, and more,
but is really a coward.

Saturday, October 18, 2014, 10:14 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center:
Web page for Prof. Harold Scheraga's 93rd birthday
Hiroshige Print #93 "Niijuku Ferry" inspired haiku—

A ferry sails calmly
down the river while
there's fishing by the shore. Sunday, October 19, 2014, 1:15-1:45 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (570 North Shoreline Boulevard),
afterwards gives me ride to Los Altos Library

Nathans onion rings,
strawberry yogurt, cookies,
coffee cake and orange juice.

Sunday, October 19, 2014, 3:24-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Email from Robert Jordan
(19 Oct. 2014, 08:20:58 am) Subject: dickenson was
a Rosicrucian ("she knew much more then alchemy...
love and freedom forever"); With two misspellings, today's email sender is not author Robert Jordan whose books have sold 44 million copies.

Emily's alchemy—
not turning lead to gold
but to make others happy. Sunday, October 19, 2014, 3:24-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Barton Levi St. Armand,
"Emily Dickinson and the Occult: The Rosicrucian Connection" (Prairie Schooner, Vol. 51, No. 4,
Winter 1977/78, pp. 345-357); In July 1880, Emily wrote Mrs. J.G. Holland— she talked to her brother Austin about "the Extension of Consciousness"

Emily wrote to Jane Humphrey (L 1:81)
on writing with a "spirit pen"
planchette used by psychics.

Sunday, October 19, 2014, 3:24-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Barton Levi St. Armand,
"Emily Dickinson and the Occult: The Rosicrucian Connection" (Prairie Schooner, Vol. 51, No. 4,
Winter 1977/78, pp. 345-357); p. 349: Emily recapitulates the Rosicrucian doctrine (outlined in 1842 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Zanoni") that the alchemist who achieved this power was obligated to use his skill for healing, not personal enrichment.
(Need to register at jstor.org to read the entire paper)

Emily understood that
alchemical transmutation was a
profound exaltation of the soul. Sunday, October 19, 2014, 3:24-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— "Emily Dickinson and the Occult: The Rosicrucian Connection" (Prairie Schooner, Vol. 51, No. 4, Winter 1977/78, pp. 345-357); p. 350: Emily read Sir Thomas Browne's "Religio Medici"— The Philosopher's stone hath taught me a great deal of Divinity, how that immortal spirit and incorruptible substance of my soul may lie obscure, and sleep a while within this house of flesh."; p. 351 (Poem 883)

The Poets light but Lamps—
Themselves— go out—
The Wicks they stimulate—
If vital Light.

Sunday, October 19, 2014, 6:30-7:48 pm
Mountain View: Met Rudy at Chase Parking Lot
at 6:05 pm, and went shopping for groceries
at Trader Joe's (590 Showers Drive) and
Sprouts Farmers Market (630 San Antonio Road)

Sesame sticks, Ak-Mak crackers,
red & black seedless grapes,
and green onions. Monday, October 20, 2014, 12:30-1:30 pm
Mountain View: Rudy & I went to Rasputin Music
(1939 West El Camino Real) to sell books & get CDs
Rudy likes: Beethoven's "Für Elise" ($1.95) and
Mozart's "Piano Concerto #21" (95¢)

Had to spend all $30 credit
at once, so opted for $25 cash;
Will try Book Buyers next.

Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 9:28-9:34 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Mikhail Pletnev plays
Frederic Chopin, Waltz #3 in A, Op 34/2 (1838)
Listen, CD, (YouTube: Rubinstein, Horowitz at
White House 1978, Valentina Lisitsa, Roberto Poli

Wonderful waking up
to Chopin Waltz #3/2—
soothing and serene. Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 12:55-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Scanning
Elisabeth Haich's "Initiation" (1965) (Ch. 43: The Young Priest Appears, pp.352-354); Kathleen Raine's "Yeats, the Tarot & the Golden Dawn" (1972), 91 pp.

Much to learn from two
wonderful spiritual teachers—
Elisabeth Haich & Kathleen Raine.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 7:30-9:40 pm
Stanford Theatre: Michael Curtiz directs
"Young Man with a Horn" (1950), with Kirk Douglas,
Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael,
Juano Hernandez, Jerome Cowan, Mary Beth Hughes (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); (YouTube: Trailer, 1, 2) Based on life of cornetist Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931);
Harry James dubbed for Kirk Douglas's trumpeting

Art Hazzard mentoring
Rick Martin on the trumpet
reminded me of Nick on my first
job at Concord Hotel washing dishes. Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 9:50-11:24 pm
Stanford Theatre: Jean Negulesco directs
"Woman's World" (1954) starring Clifton Webb,
June Allyson, Cornel Wilde, Lauren Bacall,
Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl, Van Heflin,
Elliott Reid, Margalo Gillmore; (YouTube: 1);
(Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); CEO (Clifton Webb) choosing his successor, believes "woman behind man" can be an asset to Gifford Motors, so wives are scrutinized

Negulesco directed Clifton Webb
in Titanic & Three Coins in a Fountain
(1953 & May 1954) just before this film.

Thursday, October 23, 2014, 1:30-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Born October 23: Marcus Agrippa (63 BC); Peter II (1715); Pierre Larousse (1817); Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1835);
Frederick Lanchester (1868); John Heisman (1869);
William Coolidge (1873); Gilbert N. Lewis (1875);
Gummo Marx, (1892); Felix Bloch (1905); Johnny Carson (1925); Pelé (1940); Michael Crichton 1942; Ang Lee (1954); Randy Pausch (1960); Doug Flutie (1962); Events October 23 (1993)—

Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Joe Carter
became 2nd player to end a World Series
with a home run in an 8-6 victory over
the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6. Thursday, October 23, 2014, 7:30-9:50 pm
45 minutes late finding parking (Alumni homecoming)
Stanford University: Cubberley Auditorium—
World War I in Film: Discussant: James Sheehan; Jean Renoir directs "La Grande Illusion" (1937)
starring Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Pierre Fresnay,
Erich von Stroheim, Dita Parlo, Julien Carette,
Gaston Modot, Jean Dasté; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Peter Cowie's essay;
Dick Cavett, 7-27-1970 asked Orson Welles
what film will he bring on his Ark

Orson Welles named one film
he will bring on his Ark—
Renoir's Grand Illusion.

Friday, October 24, 2014, 12:23-7:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center:
Born October 24: Domitian (51 AD); Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632); Sarah Josepha Hale (1788); James S. Sherman (1855); Alexandra David-Néel (1868); Sybil Thorndike (1882); Moss Hart (1904);
Bob Kane (1915); Denise Levertov (1923);
Y. A. Tittle (1926); Jim Brosnan (1929);
Robert Mundell (1932); F. Murray Abraham (1940);
Kevin Kline (1947); Events October 24: Peace of Westphalia signed in Münster (1648); U.N. (1945)—

United Nations Charter
becomes "Law of Nations" as 29
ratified it in Washington D.C. Friday, October 24, 2014, 12:23-7:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Krause Center: Born October 25:
Thomas Macaulay (1800); Évariste Galois (1811);
Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825); Georges Bizet (1838);
Henry Norris Russell (1877); Pablo Picasso (1881);
Richard Byrd 1888; Henry Steele Commager 1902;
Eddie Lang (1902); Minnie Pearl (1912); John Berryman (1914); Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919);
Bobby Thomson (1923); Anne Tyler (1941); Helen Reddy (1941); Dave Cowens (1948); Midori (1971);
Katy Perry (1984); Events October 25 (1971)—

United Nations General Assembly
voted 76-35 to expel Taiwan
and admit mainland China.

Friday, October 24, 2014, 11:00 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-CoastAM: George Noory interviews Joshua P. Warren (Bio, Web) "Robert the Haunted Doll"; BOOKS: "Don't Play with Robert";
"It Was a Dark and Creepy Night"

Robert the Haunted Doll
threatened to kill those
who came close in contact. Saturday, October 25, 2014, 10:16 am-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Krause Center: Last night Warren spoke about tulpa (Tibetan emanation created by
mental concentration). Walter Gibson wrote "more
than 300 novel-length" Shadow stories (1930-1940)

Those who moved into Gibson's
apartment later, saw characters
from his novels moving around.

Sunday, October 26, 2014, 3:22-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Book in For Sale Shelves—
Tejananda, "Buddhist Path to Awakening" (1999) ($17.95 for $2); pp. 117-118—

The awakened state
is permanent, real,
satisfactory, and beautiful. Sunday, October 26, 2014, 3:22-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— For Sale: Thich Nhat Hanh,
"Mindful Movements: Ten Exercises for Well-Being" (2008); (bought $14.95 for $1); p. 6—

Mindfulness is to be aware
of what's inside & around us—
then we can work wonders.

Sunday, October 26, 2014, 3:22-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— For Sale: Stephen R. Covey,
"Living the 7 Habits: Courage to Change" (2000) ($14.95 for $2); Quotes Wolfgang von Goethe, p. 1—

"Whatever you can do or dream
you can do, begin it! Boldness has
power, magic and genius in it." Sunday, October 26, 2014, 3:22-5:45 pm
Los Altos Library— For Sale: Malcolm Gladwell, "David and Goliath" (2013); 155.24Gladwel
($29.00 for $5); Ch. 1 on Vivek Ranadivé, p. 19-38—

CEO of TIBCO never played
basketball before, yet coached
his daughter's team to championship.

Monday, October 27, 2014, 2:06-5:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Born October 27: Catherine of Valois (1401); James Cook (1728);
Niccolo Paganini (1782); Isaac M. Singer (1811);
Marcellin Berthelot 1827; Theodore Roosevelt 1858;
Emily Post (1872); Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906);
Dylan Thomas (1914); Teresa Wright (1918);
Nanette Fabray (1920); Ralph Kiner (1922);
Roy Lichtenstein (1923); Sylvia Plath (1932);
Maxine Hong Kingston 1940; Events Oct. 27: (1904):

First rapid transit
subway, the IRT opened
in New York City. Monday, October 27, 2014, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall
"Another Look" Book Club discussions on Italo Calvino's "Cosmicomics" (1968) with Stanford Professors Robert Pogue Harrison & Tobias Wolff
with visiting scholar Cynthia Haven; Book Reviews:
NPR (9-18-2014); "Into the cosmos with Qfwfq"
(By Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian, 6-12-2009); "The Complete Cosmicomics" by Italo Calvino
(By Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 10-8-2014)

Enchanting short stories
on evolution of the universe
flying through the galaxies.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 11:45 am-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Born October 28:
Emperor Henry III 1017; Desiderius Erasmus 1466;
Canaletto (1697); Eliphalet Remington (1793);
Ivan Turgenev (1818); Georges Escoffier (1846);
Gilbert Grosvenor (1875); Howard Hanson (1896);
Edith Head (1897); Evelyn Waugh (1903);
Francis Bacon (1909); Jonas Salk (1914);
John Hollander (1929); Bruce Jenner (1949);
Bill Gates (1955); Julia Roberts (1967);
Events on October 28: (1886):

Gift from France— Statue of Liberty
was dedicated in New York Harbor
by President Grover Cleveland. Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 11:45 am-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Born October 29:
James Boswell (1740); Daniel Emmett (1815);
Franz Von Papen (1879); Jean Giraudoux (1882);
Fred Lazarus Jr. (1884); Fanny Brice (1891);
Joseph Goebbels (1897); Akim Tamiroff (1899);
Carl Djerassi (1923); Zbigniew Herbert (1924);
Dominick Dunne (1925); Richard Dreyfuss (1947);
Kate Jackson (1948); Winona Ryder (1971);
Events on October 29: Internet had its beginnings
with Arpanet (1969); Stock Market Crash (1929):

Stock prices collapsed
on New York Stock Exchange
amid panic selling.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 11:45 am-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Computer Lab: Scanned Snapple bottle cap found in Rengstorff Park (7-25-2014) when sparrow and squirrel joined in satsang on "Soul and Spirit"; Typed poem "The Letter S" written three months later (10-25-2014); Links to Sengai; Shitao; Seurat; Satie (Gymnopédies); Schubert (Ave Maria); Schumann (Scenes from Childhood)

I stroll in serene solitude,
and sit still chanting—
"Om Shanti Shanti Shanti" Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 11:45 am-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Found graphics
"A is for Apple" at Nursery Tracks: Best ABC Alphabet Song; Typed poem "The Letter A" began in summer 2014; Links to Atlantis; Asteroid; Avalon; King Arthur; Ananda; Argus; Argonauts; Ali Baba; Abyss; Absolute; Apollo; Athena; Artemis; Atum; Aries; Aladdin; Akashic records; "The Albatross";

A is for apple— a child's first awareness
in learning the alphabet— it's also
Adam's first lesson in the Garden.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 1:21-6:40 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: "BOXING:
Rumble in the Jungle: the night Ali became King of the World again" (New book: Muhammad Ali beat George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire 40 years ago.)
(By Kevin Mitchell, The Guardian, UK, 10-29-2014)

Ali drained Foreman's strength
playing "Rope-A-Dope" and
knocked him out in 8th round. Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 1:21-6:40 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: "BOOKS:
Galway Kinnell, Plain-Spoken Poet, Is Dead at 87"
(Former Vermont's Poet Laureate won both the
Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award in 1983.)
(By Daniel Lewis, NY Times, 10-29-2014) (photo)

Learned much from Galway Kinnell
at Squaw Valley (1989 & 1990)
writing a new poem every day.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 7:30-9:25 pm
Stanford Theatre: Douglas Sirk directs
"Written on the Wind" (1956), with Rock Hudson,
Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone,
Robert Keith, Grant Williams, Edward Platt,
Robert J. Wilke, John Larch, Maidie Norman;
(Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, Ebert); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Bacall marries alcoholic
Robert Stack and falls in love
with his best friend Rock Hudson. Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 9:35-11:38 pm
Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minnelli directs
"The Cobweb" (1955) starring Richard Widmark,
Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame,
Lillian Gish, John Kerr, Susan Strasberg, Oscar Levant, Tommy Rettig, Fay Wray, Adele Jergens; (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Kind of Grand Hotel
set in a psychiatric clinic
with many personality disorders.

Thursday, October 30, 2014, 2:15-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: "BASEBALL: Bumgarner a Throwback to Pre-Pitch Count Era"
(Mathewson 1905, Burdett 1957, Koufax 1965, Gibson 1967, Lolich 1968, Morris 1991, Johnson 2001); (By Ronald Blum, ABC News, 10-30-2014)

Bumgarner's World Series 0.43 ERA
for 2014 & 0.25 ERA lifetime compared
to other World Series pitching heroes. Thursday, October 30, 2014, 2:15-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: 'Lastness': Award-Winning Poet Galway Kinnell Dies At 87
(He began writing poetry at end of World War II.
Wrote in plain-spoken style comparable to Whitman)
(By David Greene, wabe.org, 10-30-2014); Reading—

A black bear sits alone in the twilight,
nodding from side to side,
turning slowly around and around...

Thursday, October 30, 2014, 2:15-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Born October 30: Christopher Columbus (1451); John Adams (1735);
Angelica Kauffmann (1741); Alfred Sisley (1839);
Antoine Bourdelle (1861); Ezra Pound (1885);
Charles Atlas (1893); Dickinson W. Richards (1895);
Ruth Gordon (1896); Bill Terry (1898); Fred Friendly (1915); Joe Adcock (1927); Daniel Nathans (1928);
Louis Malle (1932); Jim Evan Perry (1935);
Claude Lelouch (1937); Henry Winkler (1945);
Events on October 30: Orson Welles's live drama CBS radio play "War of the Worlds", which employed fake news reports, panicked some listeners who thought the Martian invasion was true (1938); Ali fight (1974):

Muhammad Ali knocked out
George Foreman in 8th round
in Zaire to regain heavyweight title. Thursday, October 30, 2014, 2:15-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab: Born October 31: John Evelyn (1620); Jan Vermeer (1632); Clement XIV (1705); John Keats (1795); Joseph Swan (1828);
Galileo Ferraris (1847); Juliette Gordon Low (1860);
Eugene Meyer (1875); Chiang Kai-shek (1887);
Hubert Wilkins (1888); Ruth Fuller Sasaki (1892);
Ethel Waters (1896); Cal Hubbard (1900); Dale Evans (1912); Ian Stevenson (1918); Barbara Bel Geddes (1922); Norodom Sihanouk (1922); John Pople 1925; Andrew Sarris 1928; Dan Rather (1931);
Michael Landon (1936); Hobart Alter (1933);
Jane Pauley (1950); John Candy (1950);
Peter Jackson (1961); Events October 31: (1984):

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
assassinated near her residence
by two Sikh security guards.

Friday, October 31, 2014, 7:36-7:40 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Leonard Slatkin conducts
Charles Gounod, "Funeral March of a Marionette" (1872); Listen, CD, (YouTube: 1, 2); Theme music for TV program "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955-1965)

Funeral procession of
the Marionette who
has died in a duel. Friday, October 31, 2014, 8:46-9:00 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Georges Pretre conducts
Paul Dukas, "Sorcerer's Apprentice", (1897); inspired by Goethe's 1797 poem (Listen) (CD) (YouTube: 1, 2) (Music used in Disney's Mickey Mouse "Fantasia")

Sorcerer's cap is conical
like a mushroom & witches' hat
in the Platonic Lambda shape.

Friday, October 31, 2014, 7:30-9:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Jean Negulesco directs
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) starring
Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall,
William Powell, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun,
Cameron Mitchell, Alexander D'Arcy, Fred Clark;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Three women pool their resources
to rent posh New York penthouse
and trap millionaire husbands. Friday, October 31, 2014, 9:30-11:28 pm
Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minnelli directs
"Designing Woman" (1957) with Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray, Sam Levene, Jack Cole,
Tom Helmore, Mickey Shaughnessy, Jesse White, Edward Platt, Chuck Connors, Richard Deacon; (YouTube: 1, 2, Peck on Bacall); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Choreographer-Dancer
Jack Cole's kick boxing
demolished the gangsters.