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Feb. 15, 1968: At a new Madison Square Garden over Penn Station,... 26 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
Feb. 15, 1968: At a new Madison Square Garden over Penn Station, Dave DeBusschere of the Detroit Pistons scored the first points of a game against the Boston Celtics, who won, 118-96. It was not witho...
Oct. 4, 1930: A game of “pushball” between University of... 23 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
Oct. 4, 1930: A game of “pushball” between University of Southern California freshman and sophomores; the latter were the victors. Evidently, the game was dangerous — a database search of Times pushba...
Aug. 15, 1963: Not unlike the sky cowboys of nearly 50 years... 21 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Aug. 15, 1963: Not unlike the sky cowboys of nearly 50 years later, in advance of the 1964 World’s Fair in Queens, the “sky is full of daredevil iron workers, swinging from huge cranes, performing fea...
An Aug. 14, 1955 story for the Sunday Magazine about blimps... 19 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
An Aug. 14, 1955 story for the Sunday Magazine about blimps and their return to the air for submarine spotting and “continental defense” did not include this image, taken in a hangar in New Jersey, th...
All you could want to know about this “hybrid beast,” the blimp,... 16 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
All you could want to know about this “hybrid beast,” the blimp, (“one part surface ship, one part submarine, one part balloon and one part plane”) was laid out in an Aug. 14, 1955 Sunday Magazine art...
Nov. 18, 1973: While New York’s Thanksgiving Day Parade tramped... 14 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Nov. 18, 1973: While New York’s Thanksgiving Day Parade tramped down an avenue, retailers were fretting about whether an inflated bull moose would portend a bull market. Photo: Don Hogan Charles/The N...
Nov. 5, 1927: Giacomo Lauri-Volpi in a lavish costume (read a... 12 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
Nov. 5, 1927: Giacomo Lauri-Volpi in a lavish costume (read a related Lens post) as Pollione in “Norma,” an opera by Vincenzo Bellini, in which Pollione grows tired of his wife, Norma, and takes a lov...
Nov. 4, 1953: Though the Metropolitan Opera was turning 70 that... 9 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
Nov. 4, 1953: Though the Metropolitan Opera was turning 70 that year, Gounod’s opera was, as reported by Howard Taubman on Nov. 17, “being done in a new setting — the romantic spirit of the nineteent...
Dec. 8, 1961: Victor Trucco, prompter at the Metropolitan Opera... 7 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
Dec. 8, 1961: Victor Trucco, prompter at the Metropolitan Opera for more than 30 years, “the man with the closest view of what happens on the stage,” whose job is to “prod the forgetful and comfort th...
Sept. 17, 1952: The Republican nominee for president, Dwight D.... 5 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
Sept. 17, 1952: The Republican nominee for president, Dwight D. Eisenhower at the Commodore Hotel, where he kept his campaign headquarters. The next morning, he was present at 7:25 a.m. to begin a 17-...
