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A Profile of Shirley Temple (Film Daily, 1939)
1939, Film Daily Magazine, Hollywood History

A Profile of Shirley Temple
(Film Daily, 1939)

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As a phenomenon in the history of the show business and among all children, Shirley Temple (1928 – 2014) stands as absolutely unique. For four successive years she has led all other stars in the film industry as the number one box office attraction of the world. But Shirley’s influence has been wider than this – there is no country in the world, both civilized and uncivilized where at some time or another her pictures have not been shown.

In a few weeks Shirley’s fan mail reached avalanche proportions, with with the result in her next film, Bright Eyesstyle=border:none, Shirley was starred. The old contract was torn up and the Temples were given a new one.

Communist Resistance During the Great Depression
1963, American Opinion, The Great Depression

Rejecting Socialism During the Depression
(American Opinion, 1963)

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Novelist Taylor Caldwell (Born Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell: 1900 – 1985) recalled the bleak days of the Great Depression – and the perpetual appearance of American socialist who seemed always to be in recruitment mode.

Open or crypto-Communists, they had one unwavering theme: Communism was a System with a Heart. Communism was the new Christianity. Communism was the savior of the working people. America must become Communistic, if it was to pull out of the Great Depression. The Light of the World was not in my church. It was in Moscow.


Click here to read further about American Communists during the Great Depression…


In 1887 the NEW YORK TIMES reviewed the first english edition of Das Kapital by Karl Marx, click here to read it…

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The State of American Roads (Quick Magazine, 1952)
1952, Cars, Quick Magazine

The State of American Roads
(Quick Magazine, 1952)

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Shortly before President Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, the nation was treated to articles like the one that is attached herein – articles that detailed all the very many flaws that existed in the American road system:

The most highly motorized nation on earth faced the danger of finding itself all gassed up with no place to go. As the budget-harried [Truman] Administration pressed for a 20% cut in highway aid to states, legislators and private groups warned that U.S. roads were fast crumbling.

The U.S. has 350,000 miles of surfaced primary roads, but about 20,000 miles become unusable or too dangerous every year. One warning sign: U.S. auto deaths, now over 1 million, equals the American dead in all wars since the Revolution.


As of 2013, the United States has the largest and most advanced road network in the world – covering a distance of 6,506,204 km. (China’s road system covers 4,193,000 km).

Fact and Fiction About Submarines (Yank Magazine, 1943)
1943, Submarines, Yank Magazine

Fact and Fiction About Submarines
(Yank Magazine, 1943)

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This article,‘Blow It Out of Your Ballast Tank’ was penned by Marion Hargrove and cartoonist Ralph Stein
in order to clear away some of the Hollywood blarney and set the record straight about the W.W. II submarine duty in the U.S. Navy:

To read articles about submarines, you’d think they were about as big as a small beer keg, and that the men worked curled around each others elbows. To see submarine movies, you’d think the sailors spent their time bailing water, gasping, sweating, hammering on jammed doors and getting on each other’s nerves.

This is really a lot of Navy propaganda, designed to keep surface fleets from being stripped of their personnel by a rush of volunteers for submarine duty.


Click here to read about a Soviet submarine called the S-13…

The Hollywood Offerings from Late 1944 (Click Magazine, 1944)
1944, Click Magazine, Hollywood

The Hollywood Offerings from Late 1944
(Click Magazine, 1944)

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During the last month of 1944 the Yankee movie-goers had a choice of ten new releases to choose from, here are four titles:


• Laura, starring Clifton Webb,

• I’ll Be Seeing You, starring Joseph Cotton and Ginger Rogers

• The Doughgirls, starring Jane Wyman and Ann Sheridan

• Mrs. Parkington, starring Walter Pidgeon and Greer Garson

Each review is illustrated with thumbnail images of the ten films.

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The Best Years of Our Lives (Photoplay Magazine, 1947)
1947, Hollywood, Photoplay Magazine

The Best Years of Our Lives
(Photoplay Magazine, 1947)

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The post-World War II film The Best Years of our lives (1947) is attached herein, reviewed by the senior editor of Photoplay:

Of all the films released since August 1945 it best dramatizes the problems of men returning from war and of their families to whom they return…It eloquently preaches the need for veterans to do their share in the adjustment between home and soldier and between employer and returning worker. It eloquently preaches against the ugly attempts of the few to incite in these chaotic days race and religious hatreds. And it eloquently preaches the truth that physical disability need not cripple a man’s soul or his opportunities.

JFK Image Abroad |
1964, Coronet Magazine, The Kennedys

JFK – As the World Saw Him
(Coronet Magazine, 1964)

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More than any other president in our history, John F. Kennedy was the public image of the United States of America. Unlike the initial acclaim accorded the stately Roosevelt or the revered Eisenhower, many nations viewed the election of Kennedy in 1961 with alarm. It was not difficult to understand; he was born to great wealth, he was very young and he was inexperienced. Could any country that elected such a man be respected?


Click here to read about Jackie Kennedy’s life after leaving the White House.

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The Flapper Exageration (The Flapper Magazine, 1922)
1922, Flappers, The Flapper Magazine

The Flapper Exageration
(The Flapper Magazine, 1922)

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The attached column first appeared in Flapper Magazine and begins with three paragraphs outlining the ceaseless march of flappers throughout the centuries (Eve, Cleopatra, Madame Du Barry, etc…) and then dedicates the remaining three paragraphs to the various legal dust-ups flappers were causing throughout the fruited plane:


In Vinland, Kansas, a town of 400 inhabitants, [the rustics are up-in-arms because] Alice Hansen and Maude Buchanan, 16-year-old flappers, and daughters of farmers, are wearing skirts shorter than those that are in vogue among the high school pupils….it is now up to the highbrows of the Supreme Court of Kansas to decide the case and bring a satisfying verdict…All this criticism of flappers is bunk and should be treated lightly.

'Is the Younger Generation in Peril?'' (Literary Digest, 1921)
1922, Flappers, The Literary Digest

The Case Against Flappers
(Literary Digest, 1922)

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A collection of low opinions concerning the Flapper and her confederates, gathered from numerous clerical magazines throughout the fruited plane:

There is a great deal of frank talk among them that in many cases smacks of boldness. One hears it said that the girls are actually tempting the boys more than the boys do the girls, by their dress and conversation…

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Flappers Were Nothing New (NY Times, 1922)
1922, Flappers

Flappers Were Nothing New
(NY Times, 1922)

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Since the preceding article was jam-packed with intolerant remarks from the lip-service corner of the Holier-Than-Thou clerical crowd, it seemed only fitting that we post this article which dwelt upon the far more accepting and just a wee-bit more Christian feelings of yet another clergyman who tended to think that the flappers were not really as queer as everyone liked to think they were.

Painting faces is no new thing except on occasion. Belles and famous beauties of the past painted for State occasions. But then it was not good form to wear paint in daylight. Now it is, apparently. That many young women now carry this to extreme is not unusual…


Click here to read an article about the demise of a popular 1940s hairstyle.

N.Y. Court Ruled That Women Can Smoke in Public (Hearst's Sunday American, 1917)
1917, Flappers, Hearst's Sunday American

N.Y. Court Ruled That Women Can Smoke in Public
(Hearst’s Sunday American, 1917)

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A brief notice from 1917 reported on the arrest of three women for smoking in the Times Square subway station in New York City.


When the socially astute, forward-thinking judge recognized that no real crime had been committed they were released, but in the high fashion world feminine tobacco abuse, these women are often said to be the Rosa Parks of nicotine:


Mary Driscoll, Edna Stanley and Elsie Peterson


let their names live ever more!

The Flapper as a Religious Force in the World (Literary Digest, 1927)
1927, Flappers, The Literary Digest

The Flapper as a Religious Force in the World
(Literary Digest, 1927)

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Scorned for too long by churchmen as an ambulatory example of folly, the flapper at length finds herself defended by the Church. She is not, in this new view, the brainless, overdressed Jezebel that she has been pictured to be. ‘She is a symbol of the times. As she sweeps down the street, she is like nothing so much as a fine, young spirited puppy-dog, eager for the fray’.


Unlike some members of clergy, the wise sages of Hollywood were clearly numbered among those who held favorable views about flappers, but they didn’t always produce films that were sympathetic to their causes; for example, the editors of Flapper magazine hated this movie.

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Flapper Beauty Contest (Flapper Magazine, 1922)
1922, Flappers, The Flapper Magazine

Flapper Beauty Contest
(Flapper Magazine, 1922)

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This funny announcement from the yellowing pages of FLAPPER MAGAZINE made it clear to one and all that all flappers were eligible to enter their Flapper Beauty Contest:

You don’t have to be beautiful to be a flapper, and if you’re not a flapper you wouldn’t be considered beautiful. So there!


(But we’re sure it helped)

The Flappers and Their Fashion Rebellion (Flapper Magazine, 1922)
1922, Flappers, The Flapper Magazine

The Flappers and Their Fashion Rebellion
(Flapper Magazine, 1922)

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In the attached column, a high-spirited editorial writer hails the Flapper Revolution and singles out Paris fashion designer Paul Poiret (1879 – 1944) for being so out of step with the women of his day for continuing to design long dresses:

When flappers rise en masse and say that they can see no reason for giving up a style that means comfort, freedom and health, then indeed, out of this welter of strikes, injunctions and warfare may be seen a glimmer of hope for mankind.

M. Poiret, designer of Paris, has seen fit to take up the cudgels on behalf of the long skirt, and therefore he cannot object if the shafts of ridicule are hurled at him in return…

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