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In London, Merle worked as a nightclub hostess and film extra, reportedly charging hundreds of dollars Merle, then still Estelle O’Brien Thompson, was persuaded to adopt a new name, Merle Oberon, carefully her life “navigating an industry that wasn’t designed to accommodate her and producing such moving work New York: Coward-McCann, 1983. Sen, Mayukh. “The Life and Secret of Merle Oberon.”

Born Into the Job Johnson was born on January 20, 1883, in Galloway Township, New Jersey, the son of In 1911, New Jersey's reform-minded governor, a young Woodrow Wilson, led a corruption crackdown that York, $3,000 on clothing, and another $3,000 on food, with lobster, caviar and thick steaks a regular By 1935 he owned four brand-new Cadillacs and employed a valet, two chauffeurs and three maids. “Nucky: The Real Story of the Atlantic City Boardwalk Boss” — The New Falcon Herald 9.

, divorced multiple times, raising seven children of her own in a run-down two-storey house on East New York Street, and scraping by on odd jobs like ironing neighbours' laundry. paper, Jenny had clipped it out and mailed it to her mother with a note that read simply: "Some good news Stephanie Baniszewski, 15 years old at the time of Sylvia’s death Remembering Sylvia The house on East New York Street where Sylvia died was demolished in 2009, and the lot is now a church car park.

A native of Troy, New York, Raymond Schuyler migrated to Worcester in 1887 to work for the Worcester Louis, Clarence, and James Harold Ward were the children of Mary Elizabeth Ward Wilson, a migrant from New Susie and Harry Morris were the children of barber Sandy Morris, a migrant from New Orleans, and Susie His mother, Frances, was part of the New Bern, North Carolina, migration to Worcester. John’s, New Brunswick, Canada, to Worcester in 1877.

Joplin’s work had always sat slightly apart from the more polished strands of the movement. His collaborations included working with Jim Morrison, helping to draw out the more overtly poetic side took clearer shape in August 1970, when Joplin was spending time with Bob Neuwirth in Port Chester, New York. Big Brother and the Holding Company In 1970, she formed the Full Tilt Boogie Band and began working on

together, and as the FBI's fame grew chasing bank robbers and kidnappers, Tolson travelled with Hoover to New York, where they became fixtures of gossip columnist Walter Winchell's Stork Club circle alongside boxer In public, both men were most often described simply as "bachelors," a word doing a lot of quiet work Hoover and Tolson neatly into today's categories, gay or straight, closeted or out, doesn't really work

Promise Born Mary Ann Webster in Plaistow, East London, on 20 December 1874, Mary Ann grew up in a large working-class Gumpertz offered her a spot at Coney Island's Dreamland Sideshow in New York, performing under a title She worked until she truly couldn't continue, driven to the end by the same commitment that had put her

parents, Elizabeth and John Van Der Zee, had lived through enslavement in Virginia before settling in New didn’t realise it at the time, but he was already creating a photographic archive of a small Black New Harlem and the Shift to Photography In 1906, at age 20, Van Der Zee left Lenox and moved to Harlem, New York City, with his father and brother. Hundreds of thousands of Black Americans from the South were moving into northern cities, seeking new

Publications including The New York Times suggested that the killing might be linked to the heightened

Among the prominent leaders was Richard Oakes, a charismatic Mohawk from New York who had gathered support Factions developed as new occupiers arrived, with some groups more focused on their own agendas than The Nixon administration adopted a new policy of self-determination for Native American tribes, which Tribal lands that had been taken were returned, including the sacred Blue Lake area in New Mexico and The occupation also inspired a new generation of Native American activists, many of whom went on to participate

Even after studies such as the 1986 New England Journal of Medicine report demonstrated minimal risk News of his hospitalisation spread almost immediately. The people we knew in New York made sure we knew about the latest treatments way before we would have , participate in a die-in organized by ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), in Foley Square in New York City, Oct. 16, 1990.

It worked. For a few months, anyway. It worked. The New York Times, "Prisoner Escapes in Wife's Helicopter," 27th May 1986. 4. Vaujour, Nadine.