These come from newspaper editors, courtesy Kevin Allen. As for tip number three, we used to say this back in my magazine editorial days: “Cliches. Avoid them like the plague.”

Olympic gymnastics … from the 1924 Games in Paris.

We all know people who seem to have made a career out of falling up. “What? You mean the promotion went to him?!” That person who was so lousy in that job lands a new job with greater responsibility and double the salary. It can be infuriating. Some people in the business world seem to have the proverbial Midas touch.

Or maybe not. Check out the Harvard Business Review’s article detailing the reasons why winners keep on winning.

Ann Calvello, born this day in 1929, was to roller derby what Bruno Sammartino was to wrestling and Muhammad Ali was to boxing. Let’s take a look.

So is winter. Andrew Sullivan explains.