…Garrett Price checked in on the latest developments in deep sea exploration… …the cartoon refers to the explorations of William Beebe, who along with engineer Otis Barton descended in a bathysphere to a record 3,028 feet (923 m) on Aug. 15, 1934… SIT TIGHT…Naturalist William Beebe po...
French was something out of dime novel; born in dire poverty, he became a self-made real estate tycoon and a shrewd builder of some of Manhattan’s biggest land developments. French was the subject of a profile written by Robert M. Coates, an art critic who would be a longtime ...
The appointment comes a few months after Rotana announced that Guy Hutchinson would be stepping down as the company’s president and CEO. Hutchinson has since then taken over as president of Hilton for the the Middle East and Africa. Barnes has completed almost 25 years as part of Fairmont Ho...
The city's land has been altered substantially by human intervention, with considerable land reclamation along the waterfronts since Dutch colonial times; reclamation is most prominent in Lower Manhattan, with developments such as Battery Park City in the 1970s and 1980s.[130] Some of the ...
While Cather was enjoying the peace of island life, there were disturbing rumblings on the other side of the ocean, even ifHoward Brubaker(writing in his column “Of All Things”) found humor in them… …the result, however was no laughing matter… ...
White also looked in on the latest news from the world of genetics—with hindsight we can read about these developments with a degree of alarm, since Hitler was months away from taking control of Germany… * * * Showing His Colors
aim at the coverage of the death of banking heirBenjamin Collings, who was murdered on Long Island Sound while aboard his yacht,Penguin. The investigation went on for weeks with scant developments, but that didn’t stop the newspapers from trying to squeeze every ounce of blood from this ...
White also looked in on the latest news from the world of genetics—with hindsight we can read about these developments with a degree of alarm, since Hitler was months away from taking control of Germany… * * * Showing His Colors
AND THEN THERE WERE THREE…Jay Leno’sChrysler Airflow Imperial CX, one of only three CX’s known to exist today. Other versions of the Airflow included a model sold under the DeSoto brand name. You can see this car in action onJay Leno’s Garage.(Blair Bunting) ...
here a young woman experiences Spud’s “mouth-happiness” while attending the annual Beaux Arts Ball at the new Waldorf-Astoria… …if you’re wondering why the Spud ad featured a guy in a powdered wig puffing on a cigarette, well the theme of the 1932 ball was “A Pageant of Old ...