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Grady

Grady
  • grady70.jpg A ride that was all downhill

    Walt Disney World in Orlando is a place where you can pay more than $100 a day for the privilege of sauteing in 90-degree heat while you stand in line 98 percent of the time, waiting for something to happen the other 2 percent, says columnist Bob Grady.

    June 25, 2011 1 Photo

  • grady70.jpg The one item of trash you can't dispose of

    As I've already modestly reported, I've decided to devote my recent retirement from the newspaper business to helping mankind — Bob Grady

    May 28, 2011 1 Photo

  • grady70.jpg Capping off an overlong career

    I retired from the Press-Republican a month or two ago, and everywhere I go, kindly people ask me if I'm enjoying myself in my leisure, columnist Bob Grady writes.

    May 7, 2011 1 Photo

  • grady70.jpg Getting to the seat of the problem

    Somewhere this fall, probably in Palm Beach, Fla., the inventor of aluminum bleachers is lounging poolside, a gin and tonic in one hand and a fistful of large bills in the other, getting a hearty laugh over the good one he put over on everybody above the 42nd Parallel.

    October 15, 2008 1 Photo

  • A man's work is never done ... correctly The five dreaded words in many marriages: Oh, I can fix that.

    September 17, 2008

  • His ears must have been ringing The racehorse Big Brown took America by storm this year. In the process, a little rain fell on Jackie from Chicago.

    September 10, 2008

  • Warming up on a frigid Easter Another calamity for a lonely smoker.

    March 26, 2008

  • Can't make head or tail of this contraption So far, it hasn't been much of a homecoming for a new cat in the household

    May 17, 2007

  • Tachometers: Today's rumble seat I noticed from a story in the paper the other day that car sales in America are down. The cause of that phenomenon is no mystery to me. I blame tachometers.

    May 9, 2007