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The famed "Diamond horseshoe" of the (old) Metropolitan Opera House sparkles on November 13, 1951, as the 67th season opens with the presentation of Verdi's Aida.
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The famed "Diamond horseshoe" of the (old) Metropolitan Opera House sparkles on November 13, 1951, as the 67th season opens with the presentation of Verdi's Aida.
Photo: Associated Press
Jack Reilly, intrepid photographer, precariously perches on the 72nd floor of the 74-story Bank of Manhattan tower (then the world's tallest building), which was under construction, November 13, 1929. In the distance, the tallest structure is the Woolworth Building.
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A scene from State of the Union, a comedy with political significance by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse that opened on Broadway on November 14, 1945. This scene was photographed on November 13, 1945. From left, Ralph Bellamy, as Grant Matthews, a fighting, liberal industrialist; Myron McCormick, as Spike McManus, a newspaperman; and Ruth Hussey, Matthews' wife, Mary, in a scene from the new comedy. When adapted to film, it became a vehicle for Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
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The custody dispute over the 10-year old heiress Gloria Vanderbilt fascinated Depression-era America in 1934. The girl's aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sued for custody, alleging that her mother neglected her, had lovers of both sexes, and spent Gloria's inheritance income on her own hedonistic lifestyle. Gloria Senior retaliated by claiming that Whitney kept nude sculptures in her house (she was a sculptor herself and later founded the Whitney Museum in New York).
"The Trial of the Century," as the tabloids called it, began on October 1 and lasted six weeks. Gloria's youngest son, Anderson Cooper, later described it as "the O.J. case of its day, except bigger, because nothing like it had ever happened before." On November 13, the women in the picture above demonstrated outside the courthouse to support Gloria's mother's claim to her child. (Gloria's father had died years before.) In the end, the judge awarded custody to Whitney but allowed Gloria Senior weekend visitation rights. The NY Journal American mocked the verdict:
Rockabye baby, up on a writ. Monday to Friday, Mother's unfit As the week ends she rises in virtue, Saturdays, Sundays, Mother won't hurt you.
Above: "Little Gloria," as the press dubbed her, is hustled through a throng of reporters by bodyguards as she pays her first post-trial visit to her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt.
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Black & white TV was just beginning to become popular when CBS put a model of a color television on public view opposite the 42nd St. Library, November 13, 1950. The contraption was a b&w set with an external adapter and a color converter added to it.
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Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, left, a society matron whose battle for the custody of her daughter, ten-year old Gloria Vanderbilt, was a press sensation in the 1930s, leaves Supreme Court after testifying for the last time, November 13, 1934. Mrs. Vanderbilt had been on the witness stand for almost two weeks. Mrs. Vanderbilt's twin sister Thelma, Lady Furness, accompanies her in the car.
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Paul Robeson, center in the top photo, flanked by detectives, leaves the rally sponsored by the National Council of American-Soviet friendship at the Pythian Temple, November 13, 1956. Before going into the rally, where he was a principal speaker, Robeson passed through picket lines formed by some 200 persons protesting Russian intervention in Hungary. A few of the pickets tossed tomatoes and eggs at others entering the rally. About 250 uniformed policemen and 30 detectives were on hand.
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United Nations delegates virtually took over the Metropolitan Opera House on November 13, 1946. Members of the audience looked up and down into the flag-bedecked box holding the diplomats and members of their families.
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