New York Diaries - February 21st

1780

The Ice between the Governor's and Bidelow's Island being cut, several vessels came up that had been below for some times.
Hugh Gaine

1924

(Sensational stuff in papers all over the country for past week about "All God's Chillun".
Eugene O'Neill

(All God's Chillun Got Wings, about marriage between black man and white woman, was widely reviled as miscegenation)

1960

I spent the morning with Hammarskjold, who was in marvellous form, giving me vignettes of the political leaders with whom he has been dealing - Salazar, de Gaulle and Franco. He is certainly the most charming, witty, intelligent companion and a delight to be with, glinting with malice and playing with political schemes, ideas, devices, and stratagems.
Charles Ritcher

Teresa Carpenter in New York Diaries 1609 to 2009