The Ephemera: A sweet-faced, intelligent 9 year-old boy–Gerard Darrow–who performed on a radio show called Quiz Kids. LIFE says that Darrow “rescued this fledgling martin during a field trip at the Darrows’ summer cottage at Petite Lake, Ill.” Though Gerard was well-groomed and combed in the radio studio, he most loved being outdoors, where he… Continue reading Gerard Darrow: From Quiz Kid to Broken Man
Day: October 1, 2012
From New Orleans Debutante to Wife of a Marxist, Divorce “Pioneer,” and Reiki Practitioner
The Ephemera Photo – Flickr/Bustbright Fortune, December 1938: About this time every winter in New York, if you happened to pass the Ritz toward eleven o’clock of a December evening, you would notice at the usually dark and deserted Forty-sixth Street entrance a swarm of limousines and taxis busily unloading a crowd of top hats… Continue reading From New Orleans Debutante to Wife of a Marxist, Divorce “Pioneer,” and Reiki Practitioner