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Tomorrow is UN Day - I posted this two years ago -  I headed it Cavalcade of the World – as recognition of the news of time time passing ….. and in homage to then retiring Scott Simon of NPR. The U.N. is a source of controversy now – conservatives see it as a Martian colony that landed East of Murray Hill In NY ….  ….. When I was young … it was hopeful thing… better than the League of Nations – say this in the wrong bar today and you get an F U. 'What's the big look back and ponder?' Simon is asked. He said more or less:"I recall when I started out the world was still working to ensure the carnage of the Holocaust and WW II would not be (easily) repeated. So we had UN, NATO, Berlin Airlift, and so on.The biggest surprise today is that motivation to put humanism ahead of nationalism has unexpectedly been TURNED ON ITS HEAD." Why does he still do radio he is asked and Simon says the likes to watch the Cavalcade of the World. (Cavalcade is formal procession of people...

  I was one or two years old, and know this from retelling – My father went from Boston to Racine for his new job at Johnsons HQ. He stayed at the Racine Hotel, and was taking care of details like finding an apartment for us in town. I should premise the whole thing with the note that it is true, Boston’s are stuffy. You can live across the street from someone and it might be five years before they decide you are going to be around a while and say ‘hi’. No, bringing over ham loafs when you move in, or offering to watch the kids in you are in a ‘pickle.’ It was Sunday morning, sunny, in the summer. And my father was walking down from Monument Sq toward the lake. A fellow walking in up the way says to him: “Hi, nice day!” My father calls home to my mother in says. “It seems like a nice town – but it is really different here!” Flash forward to 1973 and I am back for a visit and walking up Johnson in Madison with a six pack and a guy says to me: “Good idea!” Only here, I think! I used ...