By the New York Times When Trump picked “the Great Elon Musk,” the world’s richest man, to slash government spending and waste, he mused that the effort might be “the Manhattan Project of our time.” On Wednesday, that prediction looked spot on. Wielding the social platform he purcha...
We leave Gertrude Stein for the time being and check in withLois Long, who was sampling the fall attractions of the New York nightclub scene in “Tables for Two.” In these excerpts, the 32-year-old Long continued her pose as a much older woman (“about to settle down with a gray sh...
"There wasno transaction," Jay Kanzler, the lawyer, toldThe New York Times. "Those folks didn’t sell him cigarillos for pot. The reason he gave it back is he was walking out the door with unpaid merchandise, and they wanted it back.” ...
presents fresh evidence of how great the gap was. The study matches hundreds of Exxon Mobil’s internal reports and peer-reviewed research papers with its advertising — especially paid “advertorials” the company placed in the op-ed section of the New York Times from 1972 through...
, more direct voice” inThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. However, Stein was still best known in the U.S. for her “insane” writings, as oneNew York Timesreporter described Stein’s work upon the writer’s arrival in New York. Excerpts from the Oct. 25, 1934 edition of theTimes...
Klemperer also guest conducted a number of orchestras in the U.S., including the New York Philharmonic, where his larger than life presence caught the attention of “The Talk of the Town.” Excerpts: MAESTRO…Top left,Otto Klempererwith Czech composerLeoš Janáčekin 1927; at right, with...