Duquesne’s First Great Rivalry: Slaying Dayton’s Goliath
Dec 7, 2020 · There have been outstanding college basketball teams and great players in Pittsburgh’s sports history, but only the 1954–55 Duquesne Dukes, led by All-Americans Dick Ricketts and Si Green, won a major national basketball tournament when they defeated a powerful Dayton Flyers team in the 1955 National Invitation Tournament. At that time, the NIT was considered … Duquesne’s First Great ...
The Making of the Mafia - Pittsburgh Quarterly
Oct 26, 2023 · Steel City Mafia: Blood, Betrayal and. Pittsburgh’s Last Don. Paul N. Hodos. History Press, $23.99. While much mob influence waned here by the 1990s, it’s easy for readers of a certain age to recall how bookies were an integral part of life in steel towns and how endemic corruption once was among police and politicians.
The Short, Happy Life of the WASP ascendancy - Pittsburgh …
Standing for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, WASP was coined by University of Pennsylvania sociologist E. Digby Baltzell (1916–1996). This WASP Ascendancy traces a soft 20th century parabola reaching its apogee in 1940. We are talking about one tenth of 1 percent of the population—one in a thousand, or 130,000 of the country’s 130 million.
Andrew Carnegie: The Black and the white - Pittsburgh Quarterly
May 6, 2007 · Andrew Carnegie was America’s first great industrialist, the nation’s quintessential philanthropist, and, closer to home, Pittsburgh’s favorite son. He was also, however, a man of startling ethical and moral contrasts, and those paradoxes threaten his reputation. Was his bountiful philanthropy based upon purely beatific instincts or was it, to paraphrase Clausewitz, simply self-promotion ...
Cliff Forrest’s New Pittsburgh Brewing
Mar 25, 2024 · Pittsburgh Brewing owner Cliff Forrest joins the company’s annual Oktoberfest celebration. But as industry heavyweights invaded the space, sales of I.C. Light dropped dramatically; according to the company, I.C. Light market share regionally plunged from 75 percent to 3 percent. Pittsburgh Brewing was ill equipped to respond in its antiquated ...
A Reflection on the Life of Dick Thornburgh
Jan 25, 2021 · Written by his son David Bradford Thornburgh, read by his granddaughter Blair Elizabeth Thornburgh at Shadyside Presbyterian Church on Jan. 16, 2021. It’s my great honor to read the following reflection about the life of my grandfather, as written by my father, David. In my dad’s words, about his: I’m sure all of us have … A Reflection on the Life of …
The Torch Is Passed - Pittsburgh Quarterly
The next generation of the Mellon family has taken the reins of the largest grant-making organization in western Pennsylvania. Richard A. Mellon, 56, has been named chairman and chief executive officer of the Richard King Mellon Foundation and the R. K. Mellon Family Foundation, the boards of both foundations announced. He succeeds Seward Prosser Mellon, … The Torch Is Passed Read More »
Front Page - Pittsburgh Quarterly
by David McCormick. Editor’s note: Over the past 15 years, when Pittsburghers including Dan Onorato and John Fetterman have run for statewide or national office, Pittsburgh Quarterly has given them the opportunity to share their views. In this issue, U.S. Senate candidate and Pittsburgher David McCormick writes about why he’s running.
Pittsburgh Architecture, “From the Spoon to the City”
September 5, 2023. In 1952, Italian architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers famously declared that architects should have been able to design everything, from “a spoon to a city” — dal cucchiaio alla città. While this can sound a bit excessive to those who are not architects, it expresses the enthusiasm that architects have for the spaces we ...
A Purpose-Driven Life - Pittsburgh Quarterly
Apr 25, 2022 · Zegarelli received the Pittsburgh Fashion Hall of Fame Award in 2010. Arnold Zegarelli would probably agree with the adage: “find a job you enjoy doing, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”. For 66 years until his retirement in November at the age of 85, that’s precisely what he did. Dressed in a suit and tie, a pocket ...