At age 20, Mildred Taylor Mills’ future seemed stable. Heir to her father’s modest fortune, the Westport, Conn. girl was “for a...
On Jan. 10, 1941, Hartford State’s Attorney Hugh Alcorn attended the opening night of the Broadway play, Arsenic and Old Lace. The...
Rosalind Russell’s long career as a soignee actress with a flair for comedy almost came to an end in 1955, when she...
If something called a black cake sounds like a perfect Christmas sweet from a famously reclusive poet prone to black moods –...
In 1920, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald honeymooned in Westport, Conn., so he could write, she could swim and they could both party...
After Frank Grant lost his battle to play on integrated baseball teams, almost 50 years would go by before Jackie Robinson reintegrated...