Previously in The Blues & Billie Armstrong…
Members of his unit reported that Private Cole was killed before the rest of the unit was forced to retreat, and his body has not been recovered. No funeral plans have been announced.
For a few shining moments, I was sitting on top of the mean old world.
To celebrate my Pulitzer (and to reap the PR benefits), the San Francisco Sentinel hosted a banquet in my honor. Publisher Daniel Lockhart, a pudgy red-cheeked man with disheveled prematurely-white hair, stood at the front of the Gold Room at the Fairmont Hotel in a wrinkled seersucker suit and read from three-by-five index cards. “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome San Francisco’s favorite contrarian, the Working Man’s Thinking Man, Archer King.”