New Year's Eve ship-puzzles " a play within a

" a play within a play

Dramatically

ran along the Bowery as early as 1832

These skaters were their own silent partners on a wintery afternoon

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

New Year's Eve ship-puzzles " a play within aTimes 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