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| Vogue - May 1933
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The Elephant on the British Home Front (Popular Mechanics, 1917)
We are told that this unique picture could only have been snapped in the more eccentric parts of Britain during the Great War and that it serves as graphic proof that the farm labor shortage was as dire as the farmers declared that it was.
Please keep in mind that the event photographed herein was entirely unique to the years 1914 through 1918, and that this agricultural practice cannot be found in the Britain of today...
| All About Butlers (Vanity Fair, 1916)
Some very witty words on the subject of butlers; what to expect from butlers, the treatment of butlers and how exactly one should be butled "It is not easy to butle, but it is still more difficult to be butled to..."
| Dogs Used in the Rescue of Downed Pilots (Collier's, 1945)
The use of animals in war is as old as war itself; but the concept of kicking dogs out of perfectly good aircraft so they might be able to parachute onto snowy hilltops and deliver aid to wounded combatants dates to World War II. This printable "Collier's Magazine" article tells the story of the "Parapups":"Completely G.I., the dogs have service records, serial numbers, enlistment papers and shots against disease. Sentimentalists along the Alaska Division even proposed that they be authorized to wear Parawings after five jumps."
| Men's Straw Hats from the Early Forties (From a 1941 Magazine Ad)
Attached are pictured six straw hats from a 1941 color ad promoting the Stetson Straws that appeared on the glossy pages of one of the more bourgeois American magazines just seven and a half months prior to the day when the bombs fell on Pearl Harbor and the bad-old days of World War II kicked-in for that rare breed of man known as homo-Americanus. There can be no doubt that the fun-loving fashion-fan who was pictured sporting these organic chapeaus would soon find himself wearing one of Uncle Sam's over-laundered denim stitch-brims, peeling potatoes and remembering wistfully the day that this ad was shot. We hope he survived the carnage.
| ''I Took my Son to Omaha Beach'' (Collier's Magazine, 1954)
The triumphs of the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion on the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc on D-Day stand as a testament to the superb combat leadership skills of Lt. Colonel James E. Rudder (1910 – 1970), who is the subject of the attached article. As a participant in the planning the Allied invasion of Normandy, General Omar Bradley recognized that the German heavy guns situated above and between the Omaha and Utah beaches had to be silenced if the landings were to be successful; Bradley selected Rudder and his group to do the job, later remarking that this order was "the most difficult he had ever, in his entire career, given anybody". Written ten years after that historic day, this article is about Rudder's return to Omaha Beach with his young son, and his recollections of the battle that was fought.
A good read; for an even more in-depth study regarding the assault on Pointe du Hoc can be read in Rudder's Rangers.
| American Society and Near Society (America, 1932)
Clever writer and charming guest Clare Boothe Luce (1903 – 1987) succinctly summed-up the good and the bad that could be found at the highest levels of social America in the Thirties:
"American society resembles French, German, and English society in its essentials, if not its superficial aspects. It is more self-conscious, and therefore more snobbish; less self-contained, but more fearful of its integrity; more dissipated, and on the other hand, more moral; far less intellectual, but on the whole, less sterile, and more useful to that larger society of human beings of which it is sometimes an ornament, but usually an excrescence... Otherwise American society is much the same as in other lands: linked, in the popular imagination, with glamorous women who wear beautiful clothes, ride in handsome motors and go to sea in splendid yachts with witty, rich and handsome men, whereas in reality it is more apt to be rather dull, dispirited, unenlightened, indifferent and usually a little disconnected...And everybody is habitually, incredibly late for every engagement."
| Men's Suits in the Summer of 1941 (Collier's Magazine, 1941)
If you've been wondering what the stylish Yankee beaus of yore used to wear during the Summer of 1941 when they plopped themselves down to read about the British occupation of Syria or the Nazi siege of Leningrad, then you can stop looking because we have the article right here - it is the summer fashion forecast from COLLIER'S MAGAZINE of May 24, 1941 - illustrated with no fewer than three color images:
"The newest color for vacation clothes is parchment, one of the natural tan shades. Don't be afraid that you'll look like a member of the street-cleaning department in a white linen suit. Even the Duke of Windsor wears one. It is ideal for vacation wear, as the jacket may be worn with colored slacks, the trousers with other light weight jackets.... For week-end and vacation wear you can choose from tropical worsteds, Palm Beach cloth, tropical weight flannels, linen, seersucker and tropical weight tweeds."
| Can the Germans Take It? (Collier's Magazine, 1941)
The attached 1941 COLLIER'S MAGAZINE article reported on how the people of Berlin were faring after one solid year of R.A.F. bombing. By war's end it was estimated that as many as 580,000 Germans were killed as a result of the Allied bombing campaign (many of them were children and far more women than men):
"Can the Germans take it -as well as they can give it?"
"Modern Germany's heart never before had to endure hostile fire. Now the R.A. F. carries it there...If you go to a dinner party, you are prepared to either leave with dessert or to spend the night...During the bombing raids, the restaurants will quietly warn all their customers to rush their kraut, pony-up, and schell nach Hause gehen."
Just how accurate was the Allied bombing campaign of Germany? Click here and find out.
| Germany Shuns Militarism (Collier's Magazine, 1951)
No sooner had the curtain descended on the tragedy that was World War II when the Allied nations found themselves having to put together a coalition of nations that would be willing to fight the Soviets for the third installment of the-war-to-end-all-wars. A COLLIER'S journalist wandered among the rubble of Germany and found that a great number of draft-age men simply replied "nein" when asked if they would be willing to fight alongside the Americans, French and British. One of the wiser observers opined:
"Remember that Germany is a convalescent country...These people have lost two world wars in a generation. The last one cost them nearly 3,000,000 dead and another 1,000,000 or so still missing, to say nothing of some 4,000,000 wounded. They just don't want to take a chance of being on the losing side again."
| Life on a U.S. Navy Sub (Click Magazine, 1943)
Illustrated with seven color pictures, this wartime magazine article served to give the folks back home a sense of what an U.S. Navy sub is capable of doing:
"With a crew of 44 men, an American submarine in Pacific waters may reasonably hope to sink twenty or more enemy ships before the end of this war... By its very limitations, the submarine offers its crew opportunities to do damage to the enemy which are not given to sailors on other types of vessels. Ninety percent of the time during the war our pig boats (ie. submarines) are looking for the enemy. Cruisers and destroyers, on the other hand must often pass up the privilege of fighting in order to carry out some broad strategy objective; thus convoying, reconnaissance and scouting are a kind of boresome duty the submariner seldom knows."
"They are a proud lot, our submarine men, but not boastful. They talk less of their exploits than the public likes. The brass hats apparently have decided to keep it that way."
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