Richard Halliburton Biography

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From http://www.memphismagazine.com/backissues/april2001/coverstory2.htm
Richard Halliburton: The Forgotten Myth - A brief, endless journey on the road to romance
By Guy Townsend
This story first appeared in our August 1977 issue. Last year, Travelers Tales published a paperback version of The Royal Road to Romance.  “We all have our dreams. Otherwise what a dark and stagnant world this would be ... Lord Byron once wrote that he would rather have swum the Hellespont than written all his poetry. So would I!  Sometimes, once in a long, long while, sentimental dreams come true. Mine did, and it was as colorful and satisfying as all my flights of fancy had imagined it would be.” — Richard Halliburton, The Glorious Adventure

Jack Norworth & Take Me Out to the Ball Game

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In addition to co-writing Shine On, Harvest Moon, Jack Norworth also co-wrote Take Me Out to the Ball Game with Albert Von Tilzer. This song is sung during the seventh-inning stretch at just about every Major League Baseball game (and probably a lot of minor league and college games, as well). One of the songwriters (I think it was Norworth) got the idea for the song from a subway advertisement. He had never seen a baseball game, but wrote the song that has been associated with the game ever since.