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The Ed Sullivan Age | May/June 1997

He took vaudeville, Broadway, the tabloids, and, with his strange, gray, tongue-tied genius, melded them into a working model of a better America Read >>

On TV | May/June 1997

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You'll Feel Like a Queen with Frigidaire, Etc. | May/June 1997

The imperium of modern television advertising was born in desperate improvisation. Read >>

Videotape Versus Film: And The Winner Is … | May/June 1997

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How the Murder of Oswald Helped Make TV | May/June 1997

What you don’t remember about the day JFK was shot Read >>

Correspondence | May/June 1997

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Weeping at Lindy's Grave in Maui | May/June 1997

The trouble with having (and being) a hero Read >>

Nothing To Apologize For | May/June 1997

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Nothing To Apologize For | May/June 1997

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Roycroft Romance | May/June 1997

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The First Serious Basketball League | May/June 1997

50 years ago, serious pro basketball was born. Or at least they tried to be serious. Read >>

Old Hickory vs. Nicholas Biddle and the Second Bank | July/August 1997

With his usual furious vigor, Andrew Jackson posed a question that continues to trouble us to this day. Read >>

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Twenty-five Years Ago | July/August 1997

Eagleton Has Landed Read >>

Miss Dodd Found Hitler to Be So Tender | July/August 1997

It took a long time for the truth about Nazi Germany to sink in. And when it did, she learned the wrong lesson. Read >>

High-wire Act | July/August 1997

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The Fall of Samuel Insull | July/August 1997

Sometimes making a lot of money is a snap. And, sometimes, it’s a snare. Read >>

Two Roads to the Top of New Hampshire | July/August 1997

Up fierce Mount Washington by rail and auto routes from the 1860s Read >>

To Plan A Trip | July/August 1997

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Prepping JFK for the German Part of "Ich bin Ein Berliner" | July/August 1997

“This is the White House calling,” the voice on the phone told the language teacher. Read >>

A Socratic Bible Lesson by Harry Truman | July/August 1997

“You know who Nebuchadnezzar was, don’t you?” Truman asked. Read >>

If You're MacArthur, You Can Smoke Topside | July/August 1997

That’s General MacArthur! Clear the port wing of the bridge!! Read >>

There Is Something about a Martini | July/August 1997

IT’S MORE THAN JUST A POTENT DRINK, AND MORE THAN THE INSPIRATION FOR SOME HANDSOME ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT. IT IS MODERN TIMES, BROUGHT TO YOU IN A BEAUTIFUL CHALICE. Read >>

A Martini Anthology | July/August 1997

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Four Booze Concoctions for the 4th | July/August 1997

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Making Sense of the Fourth of July | July/August 1997

The Declaration of Independence is not what Thomas Jefferson thought it was when he wrote it, and that's why we celebrate it. Read >>

Correspondence | July/August 1997

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Cagney Did "Yankee Doodle Dandy" to Prove He Wasn't a Commie | July/August 1997

Locked in a strange, testy collaboration lit by the fires of a burning world, George M. Cohan and James Cagney produced a masterpiece of popular history in which everything is true except the facts. Read >>

Leaving For Korea | July/August 1997

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Leaving For Korea | July/August 1997

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