Smith got her start in New York in 1926 when she appeared on Broadway inHoneymoon Lane. That year also saw the emergence of countless humiliating wisecracks about her weight that would dog her long career. A reviewer inThe New York Times(Oct. 31, 1926) wrote, “A 19-year-old girl, we...
(Wikipedia/Wikitree/Ephemeral New York) White also noted a new craze that had originated around the same time as the birth of The New Yorker… TWO ACROSS…Max Schuster and Richard Simon of Simon & Schuster, with their first crossword book, 1924. (americanbusinesshistory.org) White ...
History knows Mary Mallon as Typhoid Mary. From 1901 to 1907 she would cook for seven wealthy New York families that would later contract typhoid. Mallon was born to a mother who was infected with typhoid, which offers a possible explanation as to why she became an asymptomatic carrier of th...
(Wikipedia/Wikitree/Ephemeral New York) White also noted a new craze that had originated around the same time as the birth of The New Yorker… TWO ACROSS…Max Schuster and Richard Simon of Simon & Schuster, with their first crossword book, 1924. (americanbusinesshistory.org) White ...
In 1930 gossip columnistWalter Winchellcalled the new Stork Club “New York’s New Yorkiest place on W. 58th,” and when it relocated to 3 East 53rd Street in 1934 it further defined itself as the ultimate New York night club. In her “Tables for Two” column,Lois Longfound the new...
(Wikipedia/Wikitree/Ephemeral New York) White also noted a new craze that had originated around the same time as the birth of The New Yorker… TWO ACROSS…Max Schuster and Richard Simon of Simon & Schuster, with their first crossword book, 1924. (americanbusinesshistory.org) White ...
TWO ACROSS…Max SchusterandRichard Simonof Simon & Schuster, with their first crossword book, 1924. (americanbusinesshistory.org) White concluded with these parting words, tinged with world-weariness, writing “More seems likely to happen.” One wonders if he imaginedThe New Yorkerat 100, which...
(Wikipedia/Wikitree/Ephemeral New York) White also noted a new craze that had originated around the same time as the birth of The New Yorker… TWO ACROSS…Max Schuster and Richard Simon of Simon & Schuster, with their first crossword book, 1924. (americanbusinesshistory.org) White ...
(Wikipedia/Wikitree/Ephemeral New York) White also noted a new craze that had originated around the same time as the birth of The New Yorker… TWO ACROSS…Max Schuster and Richard Simon of Simon & Schuster, with their first crossword book, 1924. (americanbusinesshistory.org) White ...
, 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...