Historian Frederick Lewis Allen, who would go on to write the definitive history of the 1920s in his bestselling Only Yesterday (1931), offered some tongue-in-cheek advice on how the average American could contribute to renewed economic prosperity. An excerpt: Howard Brubaker also finished the ...
Critic Lewis Mumford called the design, which combined “two unlovely and unrelated forms”…”nothing short of a major crime.” (Wurts Brothers Photography Collection, National Building Museum) * * * Crime of the Century That is what the press called the kidnap and murder of the infant son...
Solid and Reliable Why Ladies Love John LewisEVEN though its own-goods label, Jonelle, sounds like a crossbetween Jolene of the Archers and...By JohnsonRachel
Luz who lives with her partner in Fitzwilliam Road Cambridge admitted stealing clothes worth ￡9.95 from John Lewis in Oxford Street London on March 9. Phillip Lemoyne prosecuting(起诉) said Luz selected some clothes from a display and took them to the ladies’ toilet in the store .When she ...
He toured with Jerry Lee Lewis. In 1958 he was signed by Decca and moved to Nashville to record. His 4 singles did not give him the break and he returned to working clubs. In Las Vegas, Derksen remembers: Charles Heston was in the audience, he stood up and shouted Bravo!, and Sammy...
Byline: RACHEL JOHNSONEVEN though its own-goods label, Jonelle, sounds like a cross between Jolene of the Archers and Chantelle of Big Brother, there is nothing remotely flashy or vulgar about John Lewis, where sales surged 16 per cent last week.The sales figures testify to the sheer, ...
We now shift gears toE.B. White,who was poetically inspired by an advertisement in theHerald Tribunethat featuredPrince Alexis A. Droutzkoy(a member of the exiled White Russian colony in New York) praising the “magic silence” of the new “Dodge Six” automobile: ...
SIDE BY SIDE…Lewis Mumfordfound different visions of New York and the world at An American Place and MoMA galleries. At left,John Marin’swatercolorFrom the Bridge, N.Y.C.(1933); at right,Edward Hopper’sRoom in New York,also from 1933. (Artists Rights Society/Sheldon Memorial Art Galler...