The writer and star of “Sex” and “Diamond Lil” is greedy for the spotlight, optimistic, eager for success, frank, amusing, calm, cold, and warmhearted, Thyra Samter Winslow wrote, in 1928.
This Week in History
November 4-10
The best New Yorker articles published during this week across 100 years of the magazine.
99 articles from this week
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The story of a New York matron who made a fortune over forty years by providing abortions in a downtown apartment—and eventually her own luxurious Fifth Avenue town house—in the decades following the Civil War.
In the middle of a global war, Mollie Panter-Downes writes of a serious-faced young Princess who may one day mount England’s ancient throne.
Libya, former Italian colony, will become an independent federal state according to a declaration of the United Nations, not later than Jan., 1952. There …
Jeremy Bernstein’s 1966 Profile of the director of “Dr. Strangelove” and other films.
Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr.,’s 1972 chronicle of NASA’s Apollo 13 moon mission, during which three astronauts, John L. Swigert, James A. Lovell, Jr., and Fred W. Haise, Jr., were almost lost.