Raquel Laneri

1 week ago | nypost.com | Raquel Laneri

In 1951, a blind 65-year-old man named Max Gerlach was listening to the radio when something jolted him to attention. A guest had come on who had just published a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald — the late, great chronicler of the Roaring ‘20s and the pursuit of the American Dream. Within minutes, Gerlach called the radio station. Not only did he know Fitzgerald, he said, but he inspired his masterpiece. “I’m the real Jay Gatsby,” he declared.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Raquel Laneri

In 1951, a blind 65-year-old man named Max Gerlach was listening to the radio when something jolted him to attention. A guest had come on who had just published a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald — the late, great chronicler of the Roaring ‘20s and the pursuit of the American Dream. Within minutes, Gerlach called the radio station. Not only did he know Fitzgerald, he said, but he inspired his masterpiece. “I’m the real Jay Gatsby,” he declared.

3 weeks ago | nypost.com | Raquel Laneri

Bob Friedland’s home in Little Falls, NJ, is filled with Lego. Lego flowers adorn his dining room table. A Lego reproduction of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” hangs in his office. He has 10 Lego city skylines scattered throughout his abode (one for every town he’s visited). On Halloween, he strings lights on his Lego “Nightmare Before Christmas” set and displays it at the bay window at the front of his house.

1 month ago | nypost.com | Raquel Laneri

Muriel White did not set out to be a hero. She was an American heiress who — like many other US debutantes at the turn of the 20th century — married a European aristocrat. Then the Nazis came. 6 American heiress Muriel White on her wedding day in 1909 to Count Hermann “Manni” Seherr-Thoss. Paul ChurchOther Americans who had married Germans embraced Hitler, but not Muriel. She helped Jewish acquaintances escape extermination.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Raquel Laneri

Muriel White did not set out to be a hero. She was an American heiress who — like many other US debutantes at the turn of the 20th century — married a European aristocrat. Then the Nazis came. American heiress Muriel White on her wedding day in 1909 to Count Hermann “Manni” Seherr-Thoss. Paul ChurchOther Americans who had married Germans embraced Hitler, but not Muriel. She helped Jewish acquaintances escape extermination. She hid American pilots whose planes crashed nearby.