and painters set up their easels outdoors
Just over a month later
" This headline stretched across three lines on the front page of the The New York Times on Feb
the border that divided socialist East Berlin from capitalist West Berlin was torn asunder
"In the gray light of a summer dawn General Dwight D
Opening Day early-edition and painters set up theirThe New York Mets play their first game ever before 12,447 rain soaked fans at the Polo Grounds on April 13, 1962. The Mets lost, 4 3, to the Pittsburgh Pirates, one of a record 120 defeats that season. Before long, however, the hapless, bumbling Mets would be called lovable and, most of all, amazing. "Civic pride erupted in one lusty ovation after another at the Polo Grounds yesterday as 12,447 baseball fans hailed the return of the prodigal National