Eric Hodgins’s 1930 Profile of the engineer who, with his brother Wilbur, built the first successful airplane.
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The second part of Alva Johnston’s two-part Profile of Albert Einstein, from 1933.
Janet Flanner’s 1939 Profile of Picasso, about the beginnings of Cubism, ugliness as style, and how a young man from Málaga, Spain became one of the costliest painters on earth.
Profile of Joseph Ferdinand Gould, Harvard graduate, hobo panhandler and writer of "An Oral History of Our Time." Gould is a Yankee. His branch of the …
Renata Adler’s 1965 piece about student protest movements and wide-scale protests against the Vietnam War, and the fierce factionalism among some of the activists.
Hendrik Hertzberg visits the couple in their New York apartment and recording studio.