https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:06:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1565 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:48:57 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1565 I first heard of John Bear in 1990, when a man from Michigan named Bob Adams told me about the Ethiopian ear-pickers. In 1966, Southern Methodist University gave Bob Hope an honorary doctorate after the entertainer gave it a substantial donation. Up at Michigan State University, John Bear, earning his doctorate the hard way, resented this. He founded the Millard Fillmore Institute to honor ]]>