White recalling the world of The New Yorker’s first days. Given the massive economic and societal shifts that occurred from 1925 to 1935, those first days seemed distant to White, who felt old, “not in years but events.” DAYS OF YORE…E.B. White noted the many changes that had ...
People could live to a ripe old age in the 1930s, however the average life expectancy at birth in 1930 was only 58 for men and 62 for women. The Depression didn’t help matters, and neither did the Dust Bowl, unregulated urban smog, the dramatic rise in smoking, and the lingering eff...
Mary Mallon was the source of sensational headlines in the early 1900s, but even she couldn’t top the media frenzy prompted by the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and the trial of accused murdererBruno Hauptmann.The New Yorker’sMorris Markeywent to the courthouse in Flemington, New Jersey, to file...
White recalling the world of The New Yorker’s first days. Given the massive economic and societal shifts that occurred from 1925 to 1935, those first days seemed distant to White, who felt old, “not in years but events.” DAYS OF YORE…E.B. White noted the many changes that had ...
na Mountbatten, aka Countess Nadejda de Torby, aka Princess George of Battenberg…she was probably best known for her part in the 1934Gloria Vanderbiltcustody trial, when a a former maid of Vanderbilt’s mother,Gloria Morgan, testified that the Marchioness had a lesbian relationship with Morgan…...
In the Jan. 21, 1933 issue Day would publish his first humorous story inTheNew Yorkerabout upper-middle-class family life in the 1890s. A subsequent collection of these stories would be published in 1935 under the titleLife with Father.Sadly, Day would die shortly thereafter and wouldn’t ...
C. Fields films: Tillie and Gus (1933), The Old Fashioned Way (1934) and It’s a Gift (1934). (Rotten Tomatoes/IMDB) * * * From Our Advertisers We begin with scientific proof (from a “famous research laboratory in New York”) that Camel cigarettes increased one’s flow of energy...
“Mrs. Reginald” was Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, who was thirty when this ad was produced (Miss Frederica was apparently twenty-three). We’ve met Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt before, shilling for Pond’s—she was the maternal grandmother of television journalist Anderson Cooper, and earned her “bad...