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April/May 1985

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Volume

36

Issue

3

1835 One Hundred and Fifty Years Ago 1860 One Hundred and Twenty-five Years Ago 1885 One Hundred Years Ago 1935 Fifty Years Ago

Stories published from "April/May 1985"

Baseball’s Greatest Pitcher

Authored by: Andrew Kull

It was a hundred years ago, and the game has changed a good deal since then. But there are plenty of people who still hold that cranky old Hoss Radbourn was the finest that ever lived.

Ten Books That Shaped The American Character

Authored by: Jonathan Yardley

Walden is here, of course; but so too is Fanny Farmer’s first cookbook

The Civilized Landscape

Authored by: Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr.

While a whole generation of artists sought inspiration in the wilderness, George Inness was painting the fields and farms of a man-made countryside

Dirty-faced David & The Twin Goliaths

Authored by: David Nasaw

One of the country’ more bizzarre labor disputes pitted a crowed of outraged newsboys against two powerful opponents—Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolf Hearst

The Last Days Of The Third Reich

Authored by: Joseph E. Persico

Forty years ago, a tangle of chaotic events led to the death of Hitler, the surrender of the Nazis, and the end of World War II in Europe

The Golden Age Of Advertising

Authored by: Roland Marchand

The twenties and thirties saw a host of new ways to separate customers from their money. The methods have not been forgotten.

A Century of Cable Cars

Authored by: William D. Middleton

Magnificently impractical and obsolete almost as soon as they were built, the cable lines briefly dominated urban transportation throughout the country

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