A NEW YORK CHILDHOOD-the late nineteen hundreds. Author tells about his grandfather, then headwaiter at Delmonicoo's. Description of the city, the … ...

LOTTIE COLLINS REPORTED DEAD.; UNCONFIRMED RUMOR ABOUT THE SINGER OF "TA-RA-RA-BOOM-DE-AY." Share full article. July 12, 1892. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

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Napier-Bell's chapter on Michael Jackson is an exercise in dissection not disapproval, proving carefully how the child star's place in the music industry made a fall from grace almost inevitable.