Jerry Granelli Jazz drummer
“I knew — I knew! — that if I didn’t go back in I’d never get there.”
From This is True for 25 July 2021
Volume 9
2020-2021
Harry Rosenfeld Editor
Rosenfeld let two reporters chase a story. The story still echoes today.
From This is True for 18 July 2021
Richard Donner Director
“You can’t take direction. You should be a director.”
From This is True for 11 July 2021
Greg Noll Surfing legend
Noll decided to tackle the waves at Mākaha, even though they were so big, he thought he only had a 50-50 chance of coming out alive.
From This is True for 5 July 2021
Peter Zinovieff Musician
“I personally have had a computer longer than anyone in the world — brilliant!”
From This is True for 28 June 2021
Richard Stolley Magazine editor
It was Stolley who found Zapruder, who had film of JFK’s assassination.
From This is True for 20 June 2021
Richard Robinson Children’s publisher
Robinson made a tiny scholastic publisher into something huge.
From This is True for 13 June 2021
Clarence Williams III Actor
Williams decided to go into acting when he accidentally walked onto a New York stage.
From This is True for 6 June 2021
Harvey Schlossberg Police psychologist
Schlossberg was a “father of modern police psychology.”
From This is True for 30 May 2021
Jay Barbree Space journalist
In 1995, NASA named him the only journalist to have covered all 100 (to that time) NASA manned space launches.
From This is True for 16 May 2021