Background
Kuenster, John Joseph was born on June 18, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Roy Jacob and Katheryn (Holechek) Kuenster.
( On a terrible day in December 1958, one of the deadlies...)
On a terrible day in December 1958, one of the deadliest fires in American history took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at Our Lady of the Angels school in Chicago. The tragedy shocked the nation, tore apart a community with grief and anger, left many families physically and psychologically scarred for life, and prompted a mystery unresolved to this day. It also led to a complete overhaul of fire safety standards for American schools. The story of that fire was eloquently told ten years ago by John Kuenster and David Cowan in their best-selling book To Sleep with the Angels . Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the fire, John Kuenster returns to talk with firemen, parents, children, reporters, clergy, school administrators, and others who were in some way connected with the disaster. Together their thoughts and feelings about their experience, still vivid and tender after a half-century, make Remembrances of the Angels a moving and often tearful book.
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(If burying a child has a special poignancy, the tragedy a...)
If burying a child has a special poignancy, the tragedy at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago almost forty years ago was an extraordinary moment of grief. One of the deadliest fires in American history, it took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at Our Lady of the Angels School, left many families physically and psychologically scarred for life, and destroyed a close-knit working-class neighborhood. This is the moving story of that fire and its consequences written by two journalists who have been obsessed with the events of that terrible day in December 1958. It is a story of ordinary people caught up in a disaster that shocked the nation. In gripping detail, those who were there―children, teachers, firefighters―describe the fear, desperation, and panic that prevailed in and around the stricken school building on that cold Monday afternoon. But beyond the flames, the story of the fire at Our Lady of the Angels became an enigma whose mystery has deepened with time: its cause was never officially explained despite evidence that it had been intentionally set by a troubled student at the school. The fire led to a complete overhaul of fire safety standards for American schools, but it left a community torn apart by grief and anger, and accusations that the Catholic church and city fathers had shielded the truth. Messrs. Cowan and Kuenster have recreated this tragedy in a powerful narrative with all the elements of a first-rate detective story.
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(Here's a baseball feast of some 116 articles drawn from t...)
Here's a baseball feast of some 116 articles drawn from the most popular baseball magazine of them all, from the 1940s to the present―stories from the leading baseball writers about the greatest players and the greatest games from baseball's most exciting years. The book is illustrated with more than 80 photographs, many of them rarely seen. Readers can relive Willie Mays's great World Series catch; Roger Maris's 61st home run; Bob Feller's Opening Day no-hitter; Reggie Jackson's three homers on three swings in the 1977 World Series; Kirk Gibson's gimpy-leg, game-winning home run in the 1988 Series―and many, many more. They're all related by the best baseball writers the game has known: Red Smith, Heywood Broun, Arthur Daley, John P. Carmichael, Roger Kahn, James T. Farrell, Jimmy Cannon, Leonard Koppett, Tom Meany, Jim Murray, Ira Berkow, George Vass, Milt Richman, Murray Chass, Melvin Durslag, Tom Boswell, Bob Verdi, Mike Royko, Bob Broeg, John Steadman, Furman Bisher, and many others. For a baseball treat that will please any fan and can keep the Hot Stove League stoked throughout the winter, The Best of Baseball Digest is the sure ticket.
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Kuenster, John Joseph was born on June 18, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Roy Jacob and Katheryn (Holechek) Kuenster.
Editor, The Columbian, Chicago, 1948-1957; staff writer, Chicago Daily News, Chicago, 1957-1965; director development public relations, Mercy Hospital, Chicago, 1965-1966; senior writer, The Claretians, Chicago, since 1966; editor, Baseball Digest, Evanston, Illinois, since 1969; executive editor, Century Public Company, Evanston.
(Here's a baseball feast of some 116 articles drawn from t...)
( On a terrible day in December 1958, one of the deadlies...)
(If burying a child has a special poignancy, the tragedy a...)
Member of Baseball Writers' Association American.
Married Mary Virginia Maher, February 15, 1947 (deceased February 1983). Married Suely Brazâo, July 1, 1995.