Not that it's much consolation to New Yorkers dealing with today's blazing heat, but the Times has a flashback to the heat of summer 1953, when the high remained above 90 degrees from August 24 to September 4 and air conditioning was a much less common household item. "The warmth was glare and pressure and sogginess all in one," the Times described it at the time. Somehow, Broadway audiences sat through the opening of a revival of "Oklahoma!" [City Room; previously]
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