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A BRUSH WITH HISTORY
In 1929 Germany announced that the mighty new dirigible Graf Zeppelin would fly around the world. This stirred a great deal of excitement in the United States, not only because such gigantic airships were thought to be the future of aviation but also because the newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst had put up two hundred thousand dollars to finance part of the Zeppelin’s flight and was promoting it aggressively.
Hearst had insisted that the journey begin not in Germany but in America, with the Statue of Liberty as the starting point. The Germans agreed, and on August 7, 1929, the Graf Zeppelin left Lakehurst, New Jersey, passed over the Statue of Liberty, and headed east—across the Atlantic and on to Poland, Russia, and Japan. Finally, on August 25, it was spotted just west of San Francisco approaching the Golden Gate.
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| | ONCE IN A LIFETIMEContributions by Gerald Carson, Alien F. Davis, Silvia A. Bedim, George Wilson Person, Barbara Gelb, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., Richard M. Ketchum, Robert Heilbroner, Marcus Cunliffe, Herbert Mitgang, Walter Lord, John Kenneth Galbraith, Liz Smith, Mario Puzo, Thomas P. Hughes, Henry F. Graff, Thomas Fleming, Stephen E. Ambrose, William F. Buckley, Jr., Walter D. Edmonds, Louis Auchincloss, Samuel S. Vaughan, Barbara Goldsmith, Richard D. Challener, John Mack Carter, Alan Brinkley, William E. Leuchtenburg, Carry Wills, Philip Kunhardt, Diane Ravitch, Nicholas Lemann, David M. Kennedy, James A. Michener, Michael Korda, Frederik Pohl, Daniel Aaron, John Chancellor, and John Lukacs. TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDYIn 1945 the villain had a face that was yet to become familiar. by Stephen Shields.
WHEN OUR ANCESTORS BECAME USIn 1820 their daily existence was practically medieval; thirty years later many of them were living the modern life. by John Steele Gordon.
“EVERYBODY LIKES ITALIAN FOOD”The rise of America’s favorite ethnic fare from spaghetti and a red checked tablecloth to carpaccio and fine bone china. by John F. Mariani.
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