In “The Talk of the Town,” White also looked to the new year, which would see Al Smith’s Empire State Building rise into the air and forevermore define the city’s skyline, even if his dirigible mooring mast proved to be more of a marketing stunt than a working feature of the ne...
We turn back toE.B. White,TheNew Yorker’smost enthusiastic proponent of the aviation age. In the previous issue (Nov. 30) White had rhapsodized about a flight he took on a huge, new Fokker F-32. In the Dec. 7 “Talk of the Town” White reported that the very same plane had cr...
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During World War II, the federal government sponsored about 1,300 Jamaican seasonal workers to bring their expertise north, many to Connecticut’s tobacco fields, hoping to boost the crop’s production for the war effort. New waves of seasonal workers continued to arrive, many of whom ended ...
During Hemingway’s Paris years Parker actually took a boat with him to France (in 1926, along with mutual friendRobert Benchley) and so got a firsthand taste of his bohemian adventures. By the timeTheNew Yorkerprofiled Hemingway, the Jazz Age was dead and Paris’s so-called “Lost Genera...
forced to leave Russia in 1904 after the Tsar nationalized the Russian vodka industry…Smirnoff relocated to Turkey, then Poland, and then Paris, each time with limited success…at the end of Prohibition the brand relocated once again to a distillery in Bethel, Connecticut, hence this ...