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Maurice Sendak Would Have Been 85 Today What makes a good kids’ story?Sendak: How would I know? I just write the books. But I do know that my parents were immigrants and they didn’t know that they should clean the stories up for us. So we heard horrible, horrible stories, and we loved them, we absolutely loved them. But the three of us—my sister, my brother, and myself—grew up very depressed people.  Read On Newsweek October 19, 2009

Maurice Sendak Would Have Been 85 Today

What makes a good kids’ story?
Sendak: How would I know? I just write the books. But I do know that my parents were immigrants and they didn’t know that they should clean the stories up for us. So we heard horrible, horrible stories, and we loved them, we absolutely loved them. But the three of us—my sister, my brother, and myself—grew up very depressed people.  Read On

Newsweek October 19, 2009



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On This Date In 1965: The First American Spacewalk Eyes glued to television sets, millions waited tensely to hear from astronaut Edward White as he climbed out of his capsule high over the pacific ocean.  Then came the verdict: “This is fun!” said white, and men everywhere shared his boyish glee. Newsweek  June 14, 1965

On This Date In 1965: The First American Spacewalk

Eyes glued to television sets, millions waited tensely to hear from astronaut Edward White as he climbed out of his capsule high over the pacific ocean.  Then came the verdict: “This is fun!” said white, and men everywhere shared his boyish glee.

Newsweek  June 14, 1965



space astronauts Edward White nasa 1960's science spacewalk