Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt

The headlines that day were about Reginald Vanderbilt, who claimed to owe taxes on only $11,000, not the $1 million the city was dunning him for. Bloomingdale's was selling shirt waists for $1.98 and $2.98 -- "two specially chic styles," the ad said. Not mentioned in the newspapers of March 1902 was someone who came to dominate the society pages

On Dec. 11, 1936, after dinner with his immediate family, King Edward VIII climbed the Gothic staircase to his old rooms at Windsor Castle, sat down at a table with a microphone and began one of the most famous radio broadcasts of the century. ''I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as