He sold more stories: “D-Day in Las Vegas” to RKO and “The Fifth Avenue Story,” which Lewis co-wrote with Frederick Stephani, to Liberty Films. Filmed as It Happened on Fifth Avenue, the story earned Academy Award nominations for the two writers in 1947. But by then Lewis’s life...
White jumpsuits, swinging hips, and tender loving defined the life of Elvis Presley, the biggest star to ever come out of Memphis. "The King of Rock & Roll" became rock music's first big star, withseven #1 Billboard hits and 25 songs in the top 10. The popularity of Elvis has endure...
When Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of New York City's Central Park, was asked how the city could pay for the park, "he responded that its presence would raise property values and the extra tax revenues would easily repay the constru...