Although much sympathy has been extended to the family of Carolyn Bessette, who, as a passenger in the airplane, was apparently the innocent victim of the crash, news reports have indicated that it was to some extent her fault that the crash occurred.John...
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The news of the day in May 1933 included a visit to the U.S. by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, a controversial Diego Rivera mural at Rockefeller Center, the abandonment of the Gold Standard, and the continuing saga of legal beer. May 13, 1933 cover by Adolph K. Kronengold. Writi...
Parker was well acquainted withTiffany Ellsworth Thayer(1902–1959), and for a time she even associated with the Fortean Society, which Thayer founded in 1931. Inspired by writerCharles Fort, the Forteans promoted the use of scientific methods to evaluate unexplained phenomena such as UFOs, sponta...