Once herself the epitome of the carefree flapper, Long was now a mother with a one-year-old toddler. In his “Notes and Comment” column, E.B. White ended the decade on a humorous, if somewhat doleful note: In “The Talk of the Town,” White also looked to the new year, which ...
new Fokker F-32. In the Dec. 7 “Talk of the Town” White reported that the very same plane had crashed and burned (and also noted that another plane on which he had been a passenger
1929) during a certification flight from Roosevelt Field to Teterboro Airport. No one was killed, but the aircraft was destroyed. The design itself didn’t last much longer — considered underpowered for its size, and too expensive at the dawn of the Depression, it was phased...
CAREER MOVE…Clockwise, from top left,Leni Riefenstahldemonstrated her acting ability, athleticism and filmmaking talents in 1932’sThe Blue Light(Das blaue Licht); Riefenstahl filming in Nuremberg during the 1934 Nazi Party congress—the footage was used in 1935 Nazi propaganda filmTriumph of the W...