A serendipitous chain of events this month began when a Sydney Morning Herald columnist asked for help with an article
This is an extended version of a feature that first appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald on 26 July, 2014
Six weeks before the start of World War I, Fred Franklin, a caterer, and his wife, Mabel, gave birth to
Oh What a Wonderful Mornin’ it was for Rodgers and Hammerstein when Oklahoma! opened in New York in March 1943.
America was at war following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour and the United States was “never more deeply determined