May/June 1989

New Yorkers recall 1939 as the year of the great World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow. But that’s just more Eastern provincialism. Take a look at what was going on in San Francisco.

Why do you need so much money to be rich nowadays? It’s a question that historians and readers of history have always found difficult to answer.

An architecture for a new nation found its inspiration in ancient Rome

Stempel’s winning technique was simplicity itself: He got all the questions in advance.

The storm broke over their small town and changed their lives forever