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Tallulah Bankhead broadcasting from her dressing room in the Plymouth Theater on October 21, 1948, as she introduces President Truman, who delivered a campaign address from Washington. Bankhead introduced Truman as “the human being” she prefers for president “against Thomas E. Dewey, the mechanical man.” She was starring in a revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives with Donald Cook and Barbara Baxley.

Queen Elizabeth II rides in a Lincoln bubble-top limousine as part of a royal motorcade with Governor Averell Harriman (center) and official greeter Richard C. Patterson Jr. (right), as they drive past crowds of people along Broadway towards City Hall after arriving in New York, October 21, 1957.

Item in the New York Tribune, October 22, 1920.

The Little Review, published out of 27 West 8 Street, was in hot water for having printed a portion of Chapter XIII of Ulysses, by James Joyce. On October 21, 1920, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, editor/publishers of The Little Review, appeared in court, having been charged with distributing obscenity. Their accuser was John S.. Sumner of the Society for the Suppression of Vice . . .

Founded by Margaret Anderson in March 1914, The Little Review became, over the course of its 15-year existence, one of the chief periodicals in the English-speaking world for publishing experimental writing and publicizing international art … Anderson began editing The Little Review in Chicago, then moved the paper to New York in 1917 (after a short stint in San Francisco the year before), and later moved it overseas to Paris after 1922. Along the way, she was joined, in 1916, by Jane Heap, as co-editor, and then—heralding a new phase of the magazine—by Ezra Pound, as foreign editor, in 1917.