Matthew Tinker [8(6)-0] didn't have to wait too long to get over the disappointment of seeing another fight fall at the last minute as he fights on the Hall of Fame Fight Night stateside tonight. The former St Francis amateur was ready to trade leather on a Prestige Boxing Summer Time Brawl card set for
March 5, 2021
Nineteen-year-old Hosea Williams, an infantry gunner, was in a foxhole in France with 13 other soldiers when a German shell hit. Everyone was killed but Williams.
As staff sergeant in an all-black infantry unit attached to Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army, Williams was one of more than 2.5 million African-American men who enlisted in segregated units and served with distinction and honor. Williams laid in that foxhole for two days with devastating injuries, until an ambulance could reach him. He spent 13 months in a veterans hospital and was discharged with a permanent limp.
After arriving in New York at the end of the war, Williams headed home to Georgia, dressed in full uniform, wearing his medals, including a Purple Heart. The bus stopped in Americus, Ga., and Williams was very thirsty. But it was 1945 in the segregated South, and blacks were not allowed in the bus station, not even decorated WWII soldiers. Williams didn’t like coffee, but he bought a cup,
A review of two cakes with names either divine or dastardly. 9:00 am, Jan. 25, 2021 ×
If you don t bake regularly, especially outside of the box, you might not realize there are families of cakes, each one defined by the method of preparation and the specific ingredients.
The United States is responsible for creating several of these families; the chiffon cake is just one. It is defined by the use of whole eggs and abundant vegetable oil to define its texture, color and taste.
But there are some cakes that sit on a lofty pedestal high above the average chiffon or sponge cake, and one of them happens to be divine.