Tag: Banana Yellow
Banana Yellow (135)
UNITED STATES—Graydon had always kept his eye on the ball, and even when he started hearing the Voice, it wasn’t voices and he didn’t...
Banana Yellow (132)
UNITED STATES—Fidel Castro told the Soviet Leader; “Go ahead, fire the nuclear warheads,” Castro advised. He was ready to go for it; first strike...
Banana Yellow (124)
UNITED STATES—The ad wiz Bernie Lukasey had been behind a piece by Brenda Starr, pulling the strings and pressing the right buttons. Bernie got...
Banana Yellow (120)
UNITED STATES—Career diplomat Roy Renaud was sent to posting in Guatemala. Shortly after Roy Renaud landed in Guatemala, President Augusto Jacob Gascón invited the...
Banana Yellow (118)
UNITED STATES—Paris suffered Nazi occupation, and after more than four years of it, and needless to say they were long years, the city of...
Banana Yellow (105)
UNITED STATES—That sultry night in New Orleans, Graydon did some research on George Eastman, the father of the selfie era. Ipso facto, I am...
Banana Yellow (103)
UNITED STATES—Allied Fruit wasn’t the only one pressing for intervention. Carneyism was at its peak, the Cold War was heating up, and conservatives in...
Banana Yellow (94)
UNITED STATES—The frontier was an obstacle to this pioneering wave, that spread across growing country. Manifest Destiny—what a nonsense word to defy grammar and...
Banana Yellow (92)
UNITED STATES—The honeymoon phase of the trip had lasted from Costa Rica, almost to the Nicaraguan border. It was buoyed by prospects of good...
Banana Yellow (90)
UNITED STATES—In the jungle pervaded a smell of coconut oil. There were plenty of Morenos, many black as a starless night. The train was...
Banana Yellow (76)
UNITED STATES—After grabbing the leather clodhoppers Antonio remembered, with an access of despair, that he had not asked for the price. He stopped dead...
Banana Yellow (73)
UNITED STATES—He was told to be afraid of the scorpions and spiders that lurked in the banana plantations. Sam the elder and Sam the...
Banana Yellow (72)
UNITED STATES—Darien is Panama’s easternmost region of dense jungle, swamps and lagoons full of jaguars, crocodiles and venomous snakes and lethal spiders. Only for...
Banana Yellow (71)
UNITED STATES—There’s a chalk circle drawn around personal things. It marks the wellspring of our own fortune, yours and mine. It was brimming full...
