My father — maybe some of your fathers too — told me stories about the remarkable things he saw at A Century of Progress, the world’s fair held on Chicago’s lakefront in 1933 and 1934. Of all the ...

During the worst year of the Great Depression, a young Helen Beck became a star. From her humble beginnings in the Ozarks to silent-era Hollywood, the 1933 World’s Fair and beyond, the woman known ...