Taking the Plunge Size:16" x 20" Eating in front of the

Eating in front of the television set became a way of life in the early 1950s for many Americans

" When it opened

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr greeted a crowd at a reception in Washington

and 22 of his images appeared nine days later in The Times Magazine in a photo essay titled

"I hit big or I miss big

Taking the Plunge Size:16" x 20" Eating in front of theA youngster takes a 30 foot dive off an abandoned rooftop into the East River in the summer of 1938. The Williamsburg Bridge can be seen in the background. When this photo was published in The Times, the East River was an industrial zone, which might have led its inhabitants to seek out such thrills. But the waterfront was about to get a makeover thanks to a vision of Robert Moses, the city's parks commissioner, who reclassified it as a recreational