Aug. 6, 1951: In Flushing Meadows, Queens, Elliot Murphy’s “Aqua-Show” featured, among its many attractions, a water ballet of 26 women in fluorescent bathing suits. Photo: Sam Falk/The New York Times
Aug. 6, 1951: In Flushing Meadows, Queens, Elliot Murphy’s “Aqua-Show” featured, among its many attractions, a water ballet of 26 women in fluorescent bathing suits. Photo: Sam Falk/The New York Times

Chinua Achebe, Nigerian author of canonized literature such as Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease, dies at 82.
sometimes I just feel very alone