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Peace Comes to the United States (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, VJ Day, Yank Magazine

Peace Comes to the United States
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

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Even though the war had ended some four months earlier, the American people were still receiving envelopes from the Department of War about the deaths and maimings of their sons when this article appeared.


These columns reported that peacetime took some getting used to, but day by day, the nation was slowly swinging into its post-war stride.



What if the Atomic Bomb had never been invented? When would the war have ended?


Articles about the daily hardships in post-war Germany can be read by clicking here.

VJ-Day and the End of the War (Yank, 1945)
1945, VJ Day, Yank Magazine

VJ-Day and the End of the War
(Yank, 1945)

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If you’ve been looking for a manifesto that would serve as a document of intention for the entire mass of Americans who make up the Greatest Generation, you might have found it.


While the other articles on VJ-Day on this site illustrate well the pure joy and delight that was experienced by so many that day, this editorial cautions the G.I. readers to remember all that they have learned from the war while laying the groundwork for the policy that would check Soviet expansion all over the globe.

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Reviewed: 'The Garden Party and Other Stories' (Life Magazine, 1922)
1922, Life Magazine, Twentieth Century Writers

Reviewed: ‘The Garden Party and Other Stories’
(Life Magazine, 1922)

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The Life Magazine review of The Garden Party and Other Stories
by the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield (1888 – 1923) is attached here for your enjoyment. Mansfield lived a short but productive life before tuberculosis got the best of her in 1923. This was one of any number of favorable reviews that she enjoyed in her lifetime and she is today often considered one of the best short story writers of her period.

Economic Prosperity in British Palestine | British High Commissioner of British Palestine
1922, Current Opinion Magazine, Jews in the 20th Century

British Palestine Thrives
(Current Opinion, 1922)

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As early as 1922, the British Foreign Office could recognize the economic promise of Israel. This article sums up a report on British Palestine submitted to the British Government by High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel concerning the Jewish population growth to the region, as well as the establishment of schools and businesses.

It is especially interesting as reflecting the development of Palestine as the future home of the Jewish race. The High Commissioner points out that the country, if properly developed, ought to experience a future far more prosperous than it enjoyed before the war.

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Samuel I Rosenman FDR's White House Council
1944, Coronet Magazine, F.D.R.

Sam Rosenman: FDR’s Right Arm
(Coronet Magazine, 1944)

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Samuel Rosenman (1896 – 1973) was an attorney, judge and a highly placed insider within the ranks of the Democratic Party, both in Albany and the nation’s capital. It was Rosenman who helped articulated many of FDR’s policies, wrote numerous executive orders and conceived of the moniker New Deal. He was the first lawyer to hold the position White House Counsel and he was an indispensable advisor to Roosevelt throughout the course of his New York governorship as well as his presidency.

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1950s Banana Diet | Skim Milk and Banana Diet | Diets of the Fifties
1958, Coronet Magazine, Diets of Yore

Bananas, Anyone?

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Here is the skinny on the Bananas and Skim Milk Diet – also known as the Magic 888 – still in use today, the reducing plan is a crash diet designed to remove five pounds within three to four days.

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1938, Early Television, Rob Wagner's Script Magazine

Television: God’s Gift to Hollywood
(Rob Wagner’s Script, 1938)

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Young mother Hollywood has had another baby… a child some day destined to take its place in the playpen and howl the living pants off the rest of the brood – movies, radio, music, big theater, little theater, dance and festival. How soon television becomes the fair-haired boy of the village depends upon a number of manufacturing and economic factors…


Read another article about this Westward expansion…


Johnny Mathis Early Career | Johnny Mathis in the 1950s | Johnny Mathis Magazine Interview 1958
1957, Coronet Magazine, Interviews: 1912 - 1960

Johnny Mathis
(Coronet Magazine, 1957)

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Here is a moving account of the meteoric rise of Johnny Mathis (b. 1935) – from an impoverished child of the San Francisco slums to the last of the great-American crooners.

Johnny Mathis is just 23 years old , though he appears a hungry , vulnerable 17. When he sings a romantic ballad in high falsetto, his large eyes gaze out over the heads of the audience as if in search of someone.

Heinrich Himmler Newspaper Article | Heinrich Himmler Profile in Ken Magazine 1938
1938, Collier's Magazine, The Nazis

Heinrich Himmler
(Collier’s Magazine, 1938)

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A 1938 article covering the ascent of Reichfurhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler (1900 – 1945):

Himmler has dossiers on every man of substance in Germany. Nazi party functionary, business leader, churchman, diplomat, army officer or statesman; all are nicely indexed for the day when their case histories might be needed in a hurry. Because in Germany, everyone is suspect. Some Nazis will even tell you that Himmler has a dossier on himself.


Click here to read an eyewitness account of the suicide of Himmler.


Click here to read about the dating history of Adolf Hitler.

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Father Benoit Savior of the Jews | Father Benoit Righteous Gentile | Father Benoit Jewish Rescue
1964, Jews in the 20th Century, Pageant Magazine

A Righteous Gentile
(Pageant Magazine, 1964)

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With daring and resourcefulness Father Benoit built up an efficient organization to smuggle Jews and other anti-Nazi refugees into Spain…He found an old hand press in the basement and, with the aid of a Jewish printer-engraver, turned out thousands of passports. Then he summoned a number of Swiss, Hungarian and Rumanian consuls and convinced them in the name of God and our common humanity to sign the crudely made documents.

The Smiths in America (Pageant Magazine, 1959)
1959, Miscellaneous, Pageant Magazine

The Smiths in America
(Pageant Magazine, 1959)

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We were surprised to learn that even in this multicultural era of unenforced immigration laws – the last name Smith still stands as the most common surname in the United States – and as of 2021 there are 2,627,141 people with this last name living today. This article points out that there is always at any given time a Smith serving in Congress (currently that duty falls on the shoulders of Representative Chris Smith, who hails from the 4th District of New Jersey).

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