Oct 20th, 2008 · Where Three Roads Meet, the new novel from British psychologist and fiction writer Sally Vickers, is set in the spring of 1923, and features an invented encounter between the ailing Sigmund Freud and a blind, ancient soothsayer.
Sep 18th, 2008 · In 1923, four brothers formed a motion picture studio that still thrives today: Warner Bros. Film reviewer Richard Schickel has written a book and produced a documentary for PBS, You Must Remember This, to celebrate 85 years of Warner Bros. movie history. Schickel walks through the famous WB back lot with Renee Montagne. Many of the studio's most famous movies were shot on that lot.
Oct 27th, 2006 · The attention of baseball fans is fixed on the battle between the St. Louis Cardinals and Detroit Tigers as they head into game five of the World Series. But the career of Negro League player Norman "Turkey" Stearnes, who played for a Detroit team beginning in 1923, raises issues of how players from the Negro League should have been honored in the MLB Hall of Fame.
Mar 22nd, 2006 · Sidney Bechet played soprano saxophone in the early decades of jazz, before John Coltrane popularized the instrument. A new anthology, Mosaic Select: Sidney Bechet, offers listeners a chance to hear Bechet's music, transferred and restored from rare recordings from 1923 to 1947.
Nov 18th, 2005 · The Hollywood Sign was originally constructed in 1923. After several incarnations, the most recent version has become an unmistakable American landmark. This year the Los Angeles icon is getting a makeover. NPR’s Melissa Jaeger-Miller reports from the precarious hillside scene.
Feb 4th, 2005 · Preeminent biologist Ernst Mayr died Thursday morning at 100. His theories have shaped scientists' current understanding of evolution and biodiversity. Mayr's first scientific publication appeared in 1923, and he was still working unitl the final days of his life.