As a boy on the streets of Raritan, N.J., John Basilone used to run alongside the Italian peddlers’ carts, shouting at the top of his voice, “Any vegetables today, lady?” John was a lively boy; he had ...

I have no problems with the first class of inductees into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. Indeed, one would be hard-pressed to fault a selection process that resulted in luminaries such as Einstein and ...