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Lightning had struck the primal soup. A collection turned up $3 for a classified ad in a newspaper called the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and the Dull Men's Club was on its way to becoming as fashionable as the All-Booze Diet or neoconservatism. "Write for information," said...
The archive was founded in 1936 with two steamer trunks of old prints brought out of Nazi Germany by a scholarly, enterprising Jewish immigrant named Otto Bettmann. Since then, Bettmann, who has a Ph.D. in history from the university of his native Leipzig, has built it into one of the...
In 1961, a Black sociologist at a convention at the Chase Park Plaza in St. Louis wanted to take dip in the hotel's swimming pool. But the lifeguard, for no apparent reason, refused to let him swim. The sociologist was enraged and marched to the front desk, insisting on...
The first preliminary bout has already begun. A guy named A1 Stiles is fighting a guy named Mario Moldanado. They are middleweights. Stiles cannot even afford a pair of boxing trunks; he fights in a pair of blue terrycloth shorts. He had entered the ring in a robe of the...
Pierre Cardin wallpaper. Gloria Vanderbilt sweatsuits. Calvin Klein denim diaper covers. The designer craze has made flauntable fashions more commonplace than chic. Now Louis Vuitton, the French maker of luxury luggage, has concluded that many self-respecting snobs may prefer more subtlety. This fall Vuitton will introduce a new line...