From 1929: Niven Busch, Jr., on the New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, whose early teammates, including Babe Ruth, remember him as one of the most bewildered recruits ever to join the club.
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August 5-11
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Profile of Emily Post, authority on etiquette who says that etiquette was an accident in her life; needed money, and when asked to do an encyclopedia of …
A 1968 Profile of the owner, publisher of the New York Post, from 1939 to 1976.
ANNALS OF DISASTER about the flooding of the Mississippi, especially in the area around Quincy, Illinois. On Wednesday, June 30th, at about 10 p.m., as …
Short story about a boy investigating his father's Nazi past by way of an inherited painting... As a boy, he takes his afternoon naps under the painting …
Alec Wilkinson on the late soul musician Gil Scott-Heron.