FOR NEW YORK'S BOOMERS AND BEYOND | Volume 1 | Issue 25 | June 1 -30, 2007
Very Short
Health
By Abby Tallmer
Happy June, Happy Summer, and Happy Father’s Day! Last month this column printed mostly women’s health-related content in honor of Mother’s Day. Now it’s the other half’s turn. June’s “Very Short,” as promised, has a decidedly male-oriented focus as a nod toward fathers and men in general.

Vagabond / Travel

With ripeness, discounts!
By Judith S.L. Young
Planning on taking a vacation this summer? You’re not alone. According to Travel Weekly, baby boomers and seniors account for 69 percent of the U.S. travel and tourism business.

Venture / Classes

Summer School
By E.J. Ruskin
Summer in New York City: a great time to dive into a class that’s challenging, timely, funky, or just a good conversation-starter (or -ender). What follows is a list that varies widely in terms of price, time commitment, and the benefits of coordination. Here’s hoping that something will spark your interest.

Viva!Cover

“It’s wonderful to be Dr. Ruth”
By David Gibbons
It’s hard not to love Dr. Ruth. And Ruth K. Westheimer, Ed.D., ain’t such a bad lady either. Guess what? They’re one and the same, and, surprisingly, perhaps incongruously, it is this sweet little 79-year-old grandmother who has done more than anybody over the past quarter-century to improve the sex lives of millions of Americans.

Photo by Brett C Vermilyea

In This Issue

Venerate / History

Caught on Carbon
By Jerry Tallmer
In his father’s house in San Felice Circeo, Italy – the house in which Chicago Daily News foreign correspondent George Weller closed out his life — there was a basement full of old trunks jam-packed with 60 years of written words, plus, says son Anthony, “an enormous room upstairs that was a sort of Sargasso Sea of boxes spilling over, piles of paper spilling over, crates spilling over — data on Balkan revolutions alongside old Italian phone books alongside reports on Soviet grain production.”

Visceral / Eyewitness

First Into Nagasaki,
The censored eyewitness dispatches on post-atomic Japan and its prisoners of war,

Voices / Essay

There is an ocean
By Susan Westlund
My mother looks up at me with a childlike expression that I am beginning to find familiar and surprisingly sweet. “Am I going to have my hearing checked?” she asks me. The psychologist looks up, startled.


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Barge Music
By Jerry Tallmer
Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart, Stravinsky, Milhaud, Haydn, Mendelssohn –They would be filling this wooden-walled perfect floating concert hall of hers come darkness..

Vivid Memoir

No thanks for the memory
By Gertrude Faust Berger
Mismatched as Johnny and I seemed — he was a gorgeous blond bartender and I a short Jewish schoolteacher — he became my life’s unforgettable love.

Virtual / Internet

Web Wooing MySpace for seniors?
By Suzanne Pekow
At 59, Dell Housewright, a divorced, self-employed, Southern California father of two, has found himself at the center of a cyber community that considers 50 the new 30. Housewright (also known as “Dellh553”), who lists “tourism” as one of his many part-time occupations, has never had trouble making friends or meeting women.

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