December 15, 2025
Tag: Three Tragic Lives
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Three Tragic Lives
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Three women of extraordinary beauty, talent, and wealth whose lives could be the outline for an anthology of tragic short stories are portrayed in this remembrance. Two were dead before age 50, the other shunned by the world. Helene Held, Nance O’Neil, and Gaynor Rowlands are forgotten today but postcard collectors know their faces and…
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October 18, 2022 4 Comments
Motor oil and doughnuts are not often talked about in the same paragraph, but at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago these two very dissimilar products befuddled the fair’s visitors. And from almost any place on the fairgrounds you could learn the exact temperature of the world around you.