An exhibition of photos taken by one of the top crime photographers in New York in the 1930s and 1940s opens in the city today.

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An exhibition of photos taken by one of the top crime photographers in New York in the 1930s and 1940s opens in the city today.

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An exhibition of photos taken by one of the top crime photographers in New York in the 1930s and 1940s opens in the city today.

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Eva Zeisel, who designed and produced stylish but simple lines of tableware that were credited with bringing a sense of serenity to American dinnertime, died Dec. 30 at her home in New City, N.Y. Mrs. Zeisel was 105 and had come to America just before World War II, after a harrowing series of adventures in the turbulent Europe of the 1930s. Read full article > >

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Eva Zeisel, groundbreaking designer, dies

Some experts were skeptical that a chimp believed to be Cheetah, who starred in the classic Tarzan movies of the 1930s, could live to be more than 80 years old.

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ArtsBeat: In Cheetah Mystery, Florida Sanctuary Stands by Its Chimp

Cheetah, who starred with Johnny Weissmuller in “Tarzan” films of the 1930s, was reportedly about 80 years old.

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A chimpanzee who apparently starred in Tarzan films in the 1930s has died at the age of 80, according to the sanctuary where he lived.

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Cheetah the chimpanzee, who acted in Tarzan films in the 1930s, has died aged 80 in Florida, his primate sanctuary says.

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‘Tarzan film chimp dies aged 80′

Zines, small do-it-yourself publications that originated in the 1930s, are enjoying a comeback among the Web-savvy.

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Ping: Zines Have a Resurgence Among the Web-Savvy

LOS ANGELES — Frances Bay, who tussled with Jerry Seinfeld over a loaf of marble rye and played Adam Sandler’s grandmother in “Happy Gilmore” during a career that began in the 1930s, has died. She was 92. Her cousin Les Berman says Bay died Thursday at a Los Angeles area hospital after being diagnosed with pneumonia. Read full article > >

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Actress Frances Bay, who appeared in ‘Happy Days,’ ‘Seinfeld,’ and ‘Happy Gilmore’, dies at 95

Square, chunky Bauhaus art doesn’t prompt visions of gracefulness. Especially when it comes to garments: The dance costumes designed by Bauhaus painter-choreographer Os­kar Schlemmer were geometrical and bulky, concerning shape more than dynamics. But with a spring 2012 collection inspired by the German modernist movement, fashion designer Carolina Herrera has successfully channeled the bold energy of the 1930s art. Interpreted in chiffon and crepe de Chine, Bauhaus finally swings. Read full article > >

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At Fashion Week, spring 2012 collections showcase movement

The southern US city of Memphis is coping with flood levels not seen since the 1930s, which have forced people from at least 1,300 homes.

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Memphis flood forces evacuations

The shows in Paris wrap up with darkly seductive looks from Vuitton, and odes to the 1930s and ’40s from Miu Miu.

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Paris Fashion Week | Fashion Review: Exit Paris, Winking

In a last-minute move to put off doing laundry and to extend time spent with my unexpected brunch companion, I set off for Washington D.C.’s National Building Museum on Saturday morning to see an exhibit made entirely of LEGO bricks. Instead of a encountering a large-scale model of Chicago’s John Hancock Center built with the plastic memories from my childhood, I walked through the door and came face-to-face with thousands of screaming children. There for Discover Engineering Family Day , the kids were making slime, exploring electricity, designing flinkers (whatever those are), and giving me a headache. I ducked into the first open exhibition, which proved to be more interesting than necessary — I just wanted some quiet — and was awed by a replica of Elektro the Moto-Man, an enormous anthropomorphic robot whose existence I had no previous knowledge of. Given all the recent talk about robots — Ken Jennings vs. IBM’s Watson on Jeopardy! ; Time magazine’s cover story on the Singularity, ” 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal ;” our own cover story ” Mind vs. Machine ;” and a host of other references — my run-in with Elektro felt preordained. Designed and built by Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Ohio between 1937 and 1938, Elektro stands seven feet tall and weighs more than 250 pounds, according to its (his?) Wikipedia entry. Elektro can smoke (yes, smoke), blow up balloons, move his arms and head, and speak about 700 words using the 78-rpm record player embedded in his massive chest. That’s not nearly enough to compete in a trivia competition with humans, but it is impressive considering the year of construction. Still, with slow, hesitant speech and a bulging body made with steel gears and aluminum sheets, Elektro looks downright silly standing there in front of you. Look how far we’ve come in 70 years. When I burnt some toast the other day, my smoke detector starting screaming at me in speech more recognizably human than that which emanates from Elektro’s tinny interior. Instead of racing to the kitchen, I thought, “Who’s in my apartment?” But at a rate that may graph even steeper than that which shows the progress we’ve made over the past three generations, we’ve come to expect it. My smoke detector does some pretty incredible things, but I never stop to recognize and appreciate that the way the families that saw Elektro did. They were blown away by his ability to speak — “My brain is bigger than yours” — and respond to commands. Unveiled at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, Elektro was paraded around North America as a promotional tool for Westinghouse throughout the 1950s. Below, a clip from Westinghouse’s promotional film, “The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair,” which shows Elektro walking across the stage at the urging of the demonstrator before telling the story of its creation. The complete film (54:44) can be viewed on the National Building Museum’s ” Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s ” blog. “Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s” runs through July 10, 2011, at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. Image: Elektro as “Thinko” in Sex Kittens Go to College (1960), Wikimedia Commons.

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The US population has risen by almost 10% in the last decade to stand at 308.7m, but the rate of its increase is the slowest since the 1930s, according to the US Census Bureau.

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US population sees slowing rise