#nov. 14

A couple share a soda at the Cock 'n Bull on Bleecker Street, November 14, 1959.

A line of cars moves slowly toward Port Richmond in the Bayonne Bridge's first traffic jam on opening day, November 14, 1931. The span cost about $16 million to build (approximately $332 million in today's dollars) and required 26,000 tons of steel.

Waiting through the night on line for tickets isn't a pastime limited to sports fans. Opera lovers do it regularly. With ticket prices out of the reach of many fans, standing room is the only way they can see live performances. Here, Rudolf Bing, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, turns humanitarian and hands out complementary coffee to the stalwarts, November 14, 1955.

One day in Hollywood, I read a script in which the character was described as "charming but dull—a typical Ralph Bellamy type." I promptly headed for New York to find a part with guts.

State of the Union, by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, opened on November 14, 1945 at the Hudson Theater. Starring were Kay Johnson, Myron McCormick, and Ralph Bellamy (shown above), Ruth Hussey, and Minor Watson. The play was a hit, running 765 performances and winning the Pulitzer for drama. Bellamy's character, an industrialist who becomes a surprise Republican candidate for president, was said to have been inspired by Wendell Willkie.

Three years later the play was adapted for the screen as a vehicle for Spencer Tracy (in Bellamy's role) and Katharine Hepburn.

Leonard Bernstein, second from right, Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is congratulated by members of the orchestra after the 25-year-old musician made his debut at Carnegie Hall, November 14, 1943. Bernstein substituted for Bruno Walter, who had become ill, to lead the organization in a 90-minute national radio broadcast.

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