The Death and Surprising Return of John Dillinger
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The woman in red, Ana Sage, was actually wearing orange that night. The lights of the Biograph Theater on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago tinted her dress crimson, a vivid color suitable for gangland folklore. Her real name was Ana Cumpanas and on July 22, 1934, she was on a blood mission designed to net a […]
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The Unsinkable Elaine May
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Elaine May, at the age of 87, is still working without a net over unpredictable, hostile territory. After sixty-five years in show business, she continues to break through glass ceilings of chauvinism, ageism and corporate political prejudice. Barriers insuperable to others, but not to the relentlessly determined May. Remember, in 1971, she was only the […]
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Living and Dying Alone
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“The weather was warm and he was buried, with indecent haste, in one of the public cemeteries…on the Sunday following…an intense excitement was created by the declaration of a peasant that, while sitting on the grave, he had distinctly felt a commotion of the earth, as if occasioned by someone struggling beneath…spades were hurriedly procured, […]
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Neil Armstrong: The Premature Obituary
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Richard Nixon was looking at the speech no President of the United States would ever want to deliver. It was titled, “In the Event of Moon Disaster.” The date was July 22, 1969. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were set to depart from the surface of the moon to join fellow crew member […]
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What Is Jeff Bezos Burying?
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For some, July 5, 1994 is the date that will live in infamy in the retail industry. That’s when Jeff Bezos founded Amazon and turned the world of shopping upside down. Bezos elicits extreme reactions: he’s either the “whiz kid” whose fledgling online bookstore launched the ultra-convenient world of E-commerce, or he’s the narcissistic Croesus who […]
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