Headlines:
The death of FDR, the birth of the U.N. War:
From Blitzkrieg to the Bomb Innovations:
Velcro ... napalm ... the first computer Culture:
Hemingway, Welles and the boy from Hoboken
Holocaust Lessons
The 20th century is ending with an episode of ethnic cleansing. But similar events took place in the 1930s and '40s, during the persecution of European Jews -- even before the Holocaust.
By the time Orson Welles was 11, he had traveled around the world twice. When he was 23, he gained national notoriety for broadcasting "War of the Worlds." And when Welles was just 25, he sealed his reputation as boy genius by directing a cinematic masterpiece.
