John Tepper Marlin

Sunday, September 02, 2018

GREENPORT | At the Frisky Oyster

With Alice and friends at the Frisky Oyster in Greenport, NY.

We sailed with friends to Shelter Island and had a perfectly cooked fish dinner at the Frisky Oyster (rated by all as 4+/5 stars) in Greenport.

We went back on the ferry to Shelter Island and stayed overnight at the Chequit Inn, then sailed back.

A fine day.😎

Friday, March 03, 2017

BIRTH | Mar 1, John Tepper Marlin, 75th birthday

Wearing my new hat. Water color
by Brigid of the Devon beach on
the wall behind.

My 75th birthday on March 1 began with some gifts at breakfast including a hat with "JTM 75" embroidered on the front and the Boissevain motto on the back: "Ni regret du passé, ni peur de l'avenir."

Birthday wishes from the florist in Vero Beach.

Alice also bought some flowers from Artistic Florist and they had a birthday wish on the sign out front of 805 20th Street in Vero Beach.

First thing, Alice read out to me a poem from my nephew Dr Chris Oakley, who studied physics at both Oxford and Cambridge:

Poem for John's 75th Birthday

by Chris Oakley

I can't believe he's seventy five:

A lot of time to be alive!

His humour, charm and sense of fun.

Are recognised by everyone.

His friendly style is never brash -

A useful thing, when raising cash!

And never once have Oxford's sons

Complained about the flow of funds.

For once the College were caught short

With but a thousand crates of port

And mis'rable non-nutritious scraps

All they had to feed their chaps;

Yet tho' they scarce could students feed,

They were too proud to voice their need!

Unasked then John did find a role

Of holding out the begging bowl,

And thus a flow of cash began:

A new, updated Marshall Plan.

He's now retired, but busy keeps

On lit'rary jobs, while others sleep;

His mother's books are one of these:

When these are sold, he's more than pleased!

And then there's William Hartman Woodin

The treas'ry man who helped to put in

Financial rules and checks and caps

To save the country from collapse.

To find new tasks for him is key:

A recent one is heraldry -

A thrilling thing to be exploring

(And never, ever, ever boring)

It has a set of arcane rules

With rampant lions, vair and gules,

There's bezants azure, or or vert:

Plenty there to keep alert.

The first "or" by the way means gold.

And is no typo - or so I'm told.

So let us raise the birthday glass -

May many more yet come to pass!

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

CITYECONOMIST | 280K Views, Most-Viewed Posts

The CityEconomist blogsite, maintained by John Tepper Marlin, just passed 280,000 page views. Here are the most viewed posts during the last month and since the inception of this blog ten years ago in 2006.

Tuesday, October 04, 2016

SCAM | "Federal Government Agent" (Beware)

I got a request to friend someone I know.

Then I received a message with my friend's photo attached.

The message asked if I had heard the good news.

I said nope.

The news was that my friend had gotten a grant.

For this person, that was plausible.

My "friend" then asked if I wanted to be part of the grant.

That was plausible too, since I have been part of grants before, providing services.

I said I don't know anything about it but I am curious.

I am then asked to send a message to 303-536-8481 to follow up.

When I do that, I am asked for all kinds of information to identify me.
That triggered caution, and I stopped taking the bait.

They need a "quick response".
They want my Facebook name.

I get 30 follow-up messages and two phone calls

It's a complete scam.

I've looked it up and it does work through Facebook.
Here are some references. Beware.

Government Grant Scams | Consumer Information - Federal Trade ...

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0113-government-grant-scams

Other times, it's a phone call supposedly from a “government” agency or some ... agency, says that “money for nothing” grant offers usually are scams, whether ...

Government Imposter Scams | Consumer Information - Federal Trade ...

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0048-government-imposter-scams

Scammers pretend to be IRS officials to get you to send them money. ... The truth is that no government agency or insurance company is involved, and there are ...

Possible scam using facebook | Facebook Help Community | Facebook

https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id...

really why ? i think you should have gotten the money already because i saw your name among the winners list when the federal government agent brought ...

IDENTITY THEFT SCAM ~ FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ... - Facebook

https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id...

BEWARE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EMPOWERMENT MONEY PROGRAM ... Agent Mary Robison Giving out $150,000 Government Grants mon.

Grant Scam & Fraud Alerts | GRANTS.GOV

www.grants.gov/web/grants/learn-grants/.../grant-scam-fraud-alerts.html

Although the CFDA agent claims to be with the Community for Federal Domestic ... If you think you may have been a victim of a government grant scam, file a ...

Grant Through Facebook | Scam Detector

www.scam-detector.com/social...scams/grant-through-facebook

They are giving a $12,000 federal grant to hard working individuals who either ... Scammers create bogus Government pages with fake phone numbers then hack ..... BY 3 GOVERNMENT AGENTS TO HER FRONT DOOR WITHIN 24 HOURS.

Government Grant Scam | Scam Detector

www.scam-detector.com/telephone-scams/government-grant-scam

You can also officially report the scammers to the Federal Trade Commission using .... agency was giving out the grant, and he said the US Federal Government ...

Fraud Watch: Fake Federal Grants and Other Scams – Chief Financial ...

https://cfo.gov/2014/.../fraud-watch-fake-federal-grants-and-other-scams...

15 May 2014 - Fraud Watch: Fake Federal Grants and Other Scams ... No government grant- making agency will make phone calls; send email or letters to ...

Friday, February 19, 2016

MARLIN | Books and Blogs 2016

William H. Woodin, FDR's First Treasury Secretary

Status of my top book projects and blogs as of February 2016:

1. Will Woodin, FDR's First Treasury Secretary - biography. A draft is completed. A book proposal for a publisher has been prepared.

2. The Boissevain and van Hall Families in the Dutch Resistance - family biography of 1940-45. A draft has been completed and is being reviewed by the family.

3. Heraldry of the Oxford Colleges. An article was published in Oxford Today. Sample write-ups of Oxford colleges' arms have been posted.

4. Biographies of Eugen Boissevain, Hilda van Stockum, Alice Tepper Marlin. In various stages of writing.

I would love it if anyone who reads this could look at the chapters I have posted above under 1 and 2 and comment. My email address is John[at]CityEconomist[dot]com.

Meanwhile, I post regularly on the following nine blogsites, listed in order of cumulative number of PageViews, which now approach one million (more than 975,000 as of Feb. 21, 2016).

1. CityEconomist.blogspot.com (Regional, Economic History, Policy)
2. Ox-Cam NYC (Oxford, Cambridge Heraldry and Other Themes)
3. Writers4Kids.blogspot.com (Children's Books, Birthdays)
4. CSRNYC (Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability)
5. NYCTimeTraveler.blogspot.com (History, Sci-Fi)
6. Warriors-Families (Military History, Economics)
7. Hilda van Stockum (Her Books, Art, Life, Family)
8. Inez Milholland (Her Life, Husband Eugen Boissevain, His second wife Edna St. Vincent Millay)
9. Boissevain Books (Children's Books, Memoirs, Bios, SciFi)

Monday, November 23, 2015

HERALDRY | Posts

Coats of arms of the Oxford colleges.

My posts on heraldry may be linked to through this hub.

Recent posts include:

November 22 | Sinister Questions, reply to Hugo Saurny (Harvard '69)

November 5 | Linacre College, reply to Pia Jolliffe (Linacre 2006)

November 2 | Harris Manchester College, reply to David Harrison (Univ. 1960)

October 25 | Coat of Arms v. Crest, reply to Robert Parker (Trinity 1967)

October | What's Your Blazon?, article in Oxford Today, Michaelmas Issue, pp. 45-50

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

OBITS | By date of death

2015 - Dan Topolski (New College), Last
of the Great Amateur Rowing Coaches.

This is a list of obituaries I have written, or good ones that I have referenced, by year of death. The parenthetical references are to university affiliations, usually Oxford colleges, since this post originated as a list of Oxford obits.

2015 - Sheila Kitzinger (St. Hugh's)

I once had a half-time job at the Harvard News Office writing stories about my fellow students for their hometown newspapers.

Since then I never got out of the habit of hunting for highlights in the time people spend on earth.

If you have obits to suggest or a link to an interesting obit already published, please email me - jtmarlin[at]post[dot]harvard[dot]edu.

2015 | Dan Topolski (New) | Sheila Kitzinger (St. Hugh's) | Francis Fleetwood (MIT)
2014 | George Goodman, "Adam Smith" (BNC)
2013 | Denis Woodfield (Lincoln) | Peter Darrow (Trinity)
2006 | Frank Schiff (Columbia)

2014 - George "Jerry" Goodman
(BNC), a.k.a. "Adam Smith".

1778 - William Pitt the Elder

1792 | Frederick Lord North (Trinity)
1791 | John Wesley (Ch.Ch.)
1790 | Adam Smith (Balliol)
1788 | Charles Wesley (Ch.Ch.)
1785 | James Oglethorpe (Corpus), 1st Gov. of Georgia
1778 | William Pitt the Elder, Lord Chatham (Trinity)
1653 | Rev. Lawrence Washington (BNC), GW's gggrandfather
1675 | Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (Trinity)
1647 | Leonard Calvert (Trinity), 1st Gov. of Maryland
1632 | George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (Trinity)

Sunday, October 04, 2015

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Thursday, September 24, 2015

POPE | Arrival in NYC

Pope Francis after Being Allowed on His Way

EXCLUSIVE

POPE’S PLANE LANDS EARLY

Pope Francis arrived early today from Washington, D.C. and his welcoming party had not yet assembled.

He decided to avoid the ceremonies and looked for a taxi. He found one with a rosary hanging down from the rear view mirror and got in. The driver, a faithful Catholic, was so unnerved by having the pope in the back that he was driving out of the airport at a snail's pace.

Pope Francis, relishing the chance to be behind the wheel, ushered the driver into the back and got into the front. However, he was having so much fun driving that he exceeded the speed limit.

A New York State trooper pulled him over. He looked into the cab and the blood drained from his face. He reached for his phone and called the supervising lieutenant.

“Lieutenant, sir, I pulled someone over. Ten miles over the limit. We have a VIP situation here.”

“Sergeant, this is a busy day. No time for games. Who is it? Mayor de Blasio?”

“More important than him, sir.”

“C’mon, Governor Cuomo?”

“More important, sir.”

“President Obama?”

“More important, sir.”

“Sergeant... who could be more important than the Commander-in-Chief of the Free World?”

“I don’t know, sir, but the Pope is his driver.”

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