Sixty years ago on March 15, a 20-year-old Julie Andrews debuted as Eliza Doolittle in the Broadway production of "My Fair Lady."

Hiroshi Hamaya, JAPAN. Niigata. 1956. (Yukiguni, Snow Land) Snow country children going to a New Year's event, covered in straw capes to protect them from the weather.

Erika Szeles was a young soldier and nurse in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 . When her photo was taken by a Danish photographer her image graced the covers of several European magazines and she became an international symbol of the revolution. Szeles was born to Jewish parents in 1941 and rais

I throw myself on your mercy, readers. For some years now, I have been searching fruitlessly for a long-lost book, and I’m hoping someone out there can help me remember the title. The problem is, I have very little to go on: I know it is a paperback career romance from the late fifties or […]

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1956 The Saint in Miami by Leslie Charteris. Cover art by Mortimer