POSTSCRIPTS TO HISTORY

Postscripts To History

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June/july 1983

14 years ago By admin

Volume

34

Issue

4

WHO’S ON FIRST? THE AMERICAN LITERARY HERITAGE

Stories published from "June/july 1983"

The Strange Fate Of The Black Loyalists

Authored by: R. D. Eno

Thousands of them sided with Great Britain, only to become the wandering children of the American Revolution

The President’s Best Friend

Authored by: David Michaelis

If he’d been the closest companion of the president of IBM, you might happen across his name in a privately printed memoir. But LeMoyne Billings was John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s best friend from Choate to the White House—and that makes him part of history.

Painting The Southland

Authored by: The Editors

Most surveys of American painting begin in New England in the eighteenth century, move westward to the Rockies in the nineteenth, and return to New York in the twentieth. Now we’ll have to redraw the map .

Highbrow, Lowbrows, Middlebrow, Now

Authored by: John Brooks

Our fascination with categorizing ourselves was fed in 1949 by a famous essay and chart that divided us by taste into different strata of culture. Now the man who invented these classifications brings us up to date.

Scientists At War

Authored by: Fred Kaplan

THE BIRTH OF THE RAND CORPORATION During World War II, America discovered that scientists were needed to win it—and to win any future war. That’s why RAND came into being, the first think tank and the model for all the rest.

The Man Who Didn’t Invent Baseball

Authored by: Victor Salvatore

Abner Doubleday had an eventful life, but as far as we know, he never gave a thought to the game with which his name is so firmly linked

The Old Ball Game

Authored by: John Thorn

A portfolio of rare photographs recalls baseball’s rough-and-tumble vintage era

Baseball’s Greatest Song

Authored by: John W. Ripley

… illuminated by the hand-tinted slides that helped make it a hit

Escape From Vichy

Authored by: Donald Carroll

One of the most ingenious and least known rescue missions of World War II was engineered by a young American dandy, Varian Fry, who shepherded to safety hundreds of European intellectuals wanted by the Nazis

POSTSCRIPTS TO HISTORY

Postscripts To History

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