EVB2947450: Architect's drawing of the aerial view of a shopping center in Roosevelt Field. May 2, 1955. It was developed by William Zeckendorf and designed by I. M. Pei and built on the recently closed Roosevelt Air Field. It was in Nassau County, then a fast growing suburb of New York City. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947546: Tennessee Williams, playwright of 20th century American classics in 1952. His works include: The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Orpheus Descending; Sweet Bird of Youth; The Rose Tattoo; Orpheus Descending; The Night of the Iguana; Summer and Smoke. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947606: Physicist Lise Meitner and radiochemist Otto Hahn in Berlin-Dahlem, Germany, 1913. Meitner was in a research group with Otto Kahn, at the newly founded Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut. Meitner worked without a salary as a 'guest' in Hahn's department until she was offered a permanent postion in 1913. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924926: Deanna Durbin, film singing star, and William Knudson dance after the President's Birthday Ball. On Jan. 31, 1941, Knudsen, a previous target of FDR's 'Monopoly Committee' was serving the President as Defense Production Director. Durbin and Knudsen were guests at a gold plate breakfast at the White House, after the Ball / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924941: Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce arrives in Chicago for the Republican National Convention. June 6, 1944. Before she introduced former Pres. Herbert Hoover, she attacked the Roosevelt Administration tardy preparation for World War II, and for practicing one-man diplomacy / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924989: Winnie Ruth Judd, Phoenix Trunk Murderess of the 1930s, and her attorney, Melvin Belli. Aug. 8, 1969. She escaped from an Arizona mental hospital in 1963 and worked in San Francisco Area as a live-in housekeeper under the name of Marian Lane. Maggie Smith, played a Judd like maid in KEEPING MUM, a 2005 British film loosely based on Judd's story / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925049: Richard H. Ranger American electrical engineer, sound engineer, and inventor. He demonstrated his new electric organ which uses loudspeakers instead of organ pipes. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Ranger with an Oscar in 1956 for his development of the tape recorder which improved the synchronization of film and sound / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925088: Boris Pasternak, Russian writer was awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature. When historical novel, 'Dr. Zhivago' was refused publication in the USSR, it was smuggled into Western Europe and published in 1957. The Soviet government pressured him to decline the Prize, but his descendants accepted it his name 1988 / Bridgeman Images