WILLIAM LEE, a fiery young English curate with radical leanings, went one day, some three hundred and fifty years ago, to call upon Cecily Yorke, soon to be his bride. Like most men and all radicals, ...

Tracing the lineage of the recently revised version of Cole Porter’s 1955 Broadway musical “Silk Stockings” is likely for most to be as vexing as having a run in your stockings. To its credit, Musical ...

Even before the United States entered World War II, the disruption of imports and defense demands caused shortages of civilian goods. A silk shortage caused by the economic break with Japan and the ...

I know that this is a theme whereon one must, like Agag before the prophet Samuel, step delicately. Ever since that first life-size raisin pie appeared in full color in the advertising pages of our ...

Foley is a freelance writer. Anyone who has seen the 1957 film version of “Silk Stockings,” featuring the sublime music of Cole Porter, knows that the show doesn’t lack for pizazz. The film was based ...

With a head-spinning election season just behind us and the worst effects of a baleful economic climate yet to come, it helps to remind ourselves of a time when America was just gosh-darn great. Our ...

As many a Chinese soldier knows, the Japanese shells that tore his body were made from U.S. scrap iron. Last week the circle was complete: silk that had gone from Japan to the U.S. was going to China, ...