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Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881 – March 23, 1960) was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F.P.A. Famed for his wit, he is best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please.
"Baseball's Sad Lexicon," also known as "Tinker to Evers to Chance" after its refrain, is a 1910 baseball poem by Franklin Pierce Adams. The eight-line poem is presented as a single, rueful stanza from the point of view of a New York Giants fan watching the Chicago Cubs infield of shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance complete a double play.
While working as an editor, her writing was featured in Franklin P. Adams' column, The Conning Tower. [6] In 1932, she became an editorial and publicity assistant at Alfred H. King Inc. Publishers. [10] In 1928, Irmengarde gave birth to a curly-haired boy named Paul.
(The Center Square) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is facing backlash for directing school administrators to allow ICE agents into schools during immigration crackdowns, despite the city's ...
In one scene, Franklin, Adams and John Jay (played by Ed Stoppard), toast America, with Adams saying that the country must have “equality, education and rule of law” if it deserves to exist.
I wanted to publish nothing but email columns during Thanksgiving week. But my editors nixed that idea faster than they did my last raise request. My literary contributors mean more to me than ...
Franklin Pierce Adams and O. O. McIntyre both collected their columns into a series of books, as did other columnists. McIntyre's book, The Big Town: New York Day by Day (1935) was a bestseller. Adams' The Melancholy Lute (1936) is a collection of selections from three decades of his columns. H.
Franklin Adams may refer to: Franklin O. Adams (1881–1967), architect in Tampa, Florida; Franklin P. Adams (1881–1960), American columnist; Franklin Robert Adams (1933–1990), American science fiction writer