Jul 9th, 2007 · Last weekend, as many Chinese marked the 70th anniversary of the start of Japan's full-scale invasion of their country in 1937, Hollywood staged its Chinese opening of a film about Japan's wartime atrocities during the invasion.
Jul 4th, 2007 · Created by Hormel Foods in 1937 and promoted as "the miracle meat," Spam became K-ration fare for American GIs and Allied forces during World War II. The "war-time delicacy" is still a favorite in Howard Yoon's cupboard. He explains why.
Apr 10th, 2007 · Anthony Leo Zuppardo opened New Orleans' first self-service grocery in 1937. But Zuppardo's Economical Super Market never reopened after Hurricane Katrina. Zuppardo died last week at 93.
Feb 21st, 2007 · U.S. businessman Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911. His blockbuster 1937 book, 400 Million Customers, recently has spawned a crop of imitators, and many of his insights into doing business in China still hold true today.
Nov 11th, 2006 · Carl Orff's 1937 composition Carmina Burana remains one of the most popular pieces of the classical music repertoire. Conductor Marin Alsop and Scott Simon discuss why so many artists have performed the piece.
Jul 17th, 2006 · The University of Chicago is fighting an attempt to seize thousands of ancient, clay tablets from their Oriental Institute. The tablets were brought to Chicago for study in 1937. American survivors of a bombing in Jerusalem nearly a decade ago want the tablets auctioned off as compensation for the attack, which they blame on Iran. But both Iran and the U.S. government say current law does not permit the tablets to be sold.
Feb 24th, 2006 · The Nashville Symphony, conducted by John Mauceri, will perform Porgy and Bess tonight the way George Gershwin crafted it for its original premiere. It's the first time audiences will hear what the 1935 premiere sounded like -- the version Gershwin worked on before his death in 1937.
Sep 11th, 2005 · Debbie Elliott talks with biographer Steve Suitts about his new book, Hugo Black Of Alabama. A Supreme Court justice and one-time member of the Klu Klux Klan, Black helped create more uniform laws to protect civil rights after he took a seat on the bench in 1937.