Philip Quarles

Alec Waugh (Evelyn's brother), talks about his Island in the Sun

The critic Virgil Thomson on his just published collection, The Art of Judging Music.

The creator of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin addresses the audience as if they were his "Committee on Grievances."

The founding of the American Symphony Orchestra.

Stevenson defines patriotism to veterans as the love of something, not the fear of something.

Ted Sorensen talks about his time with the Kennedy clan at this Book and Author Luncheon

At this official 1952 ceremony on the steps of City Hall, the president of Nicaragua, Anastasio Somoza, is welcomed to New York by Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri. 

A pair of performances from Miss Cornelia Otis Skinner

The Author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich speaks at this 1960 Book and Author Luncheon

Robert Sherwood speaks about his time in the Office of War Information at a Book and Author Luncheon

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. talks about his latest work, A Thousand Days, in this talk at the Book and Author Luncheon

This 1962 tEight women reminiscing about their friend, and illuminating the many different areas of Eleanor Roosevelt's politically wide-ranging life.

Jackie Robinson answers questions about the fight for civil rights in this 1968 interview.

A vivid snapshot of the days when Labor reigned supreme in America.

A masterclass in story-telling with Peter Ustinov

It's all jokes with S. J. Perelman, no joke.

Vance Packard unveils advertising in this 1957 talk.

In this 1954 talk, J. Robert Oppenheimer surmises that today's pressing questions "will be transmuted before they are answered" and that "the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement."

Nixon delves into the Vietnam problem at an Overseas Press Club Luncheon.

Ogden Nash talks poetry at this 1951 Book and Author Luncheon