New Year's Eve ship-puzzles These skaters were their own

These skaters were their own silent partners on a wintery afternoon

Fein seldom covered sports in his 33 years with the Herald Tribune

the Flatiron is a functioning office building and a favorite tourist photo stop

which The Times covered extensively that year

New Year's Eve ship-puzzles These skaters were their ownTimes photographer Chester Higgins Jr. captured technicians in 1978, eyeing a new and improved ball that would soon descend during the annual New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square. No big deal, but in 1907, The Times invented the Times Square ball drop. "The descent of an electric ball will mark the arrival of 1908 tonight," read a short item in the newspaper on December 31 of that year. The original ball was five feet in diameter. Its light came