Now the Men Can Sleep
(Quick Magazine, 1952)
From the same country that gave us Benny Hill came this remarkable invention that improved men’s lives immeasurably.
1952, Miscellaneous, Quick Magazine
The Shoes of ’52
(Quick Magazine, 1952)
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The Girl ”Loomed Large” – for a Bit
(People Today Magazine, 1951; Tempo, 1954)
For reasons we are unable to fully comprehend, today’s magazine editors are no longer asked to cast their ballots for a category titled Most Photogenic Figure on TV – but this was not the case in 1951, and Delores Roxanne Rosedale won hands-down.
The Abusive Occupying Army
(Collier’s Magazine, 1946)
This editorial lends credibility to Andrei Cherny’s 2007 tome, The Candy Bombers
Stories keep coming back to this country about American soldiers sticking up Berlin restaurants, or beating up German citizens, or looting German homes. How much of this stuff goes on, we don’t know. We do know that some of it goes on, and that any of it is too much. Not that we believe in sobbing unduly over the German people, they let themselves be razzle-dazzled into the war by Hitler and his mobsters.
The Battle at the Great Wall
(Literary Digest, 1933)
…Peiping Associated Press dispatches tell of a major battle between Japanese and Chinese armies for possession of Chiumenkow Pass in the Great Wall of China. The Pass is one of the most important gateways leading into the rich province of Jehol which, it is reported, Japan purposes to cut off from China and add to Manchukuo…This collision forms the second chapter in the Shanhaikwan dispute, and it comes quickly.
A Chronology: 1950 – 51
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1951)
Appearing in the June 27, 1951 issue of PATHFINDER was this list of chronological events that made up the first ten months of fighting in the Korean War.
The Red Spies in Washington
(Coronet Magazine, 1952)
Stalin’s deep fear of traitors and moles was not simply confined to the Soviet Union – it spread throughout every branch of his embassies as well. This article pertains to the Soviet spies who worked in Washington – the ones who spied on the Soviet diplomatic corps:
When a new [diplomat arrives from Moscow] he soon learns that the Ambassador is not the real boss. One outside diplomat who has contacts with the Embassy declares: ‘Always, there is someone in the Embassy whom the others fear. They live in terror of him, for he is the real leader… I have seen Soviet officials actually tremble when he comes into the room.’
A 1951 article about the young CIA can be read by clicking here…
Nesei Homecoming
(Yank, 1945)
Who knows, perhaps the author of Bad Day at Black Rock
It was written by YANK MAGAZINE’s Len Zinberg (1911-1968; a.k.a. Ed Lacy, a.k.a. Steve April); by that time, Zinberg was already an experienced writer with impressive credits and the magazine was lucky to have him. His writings at YANK helped to open the door at THE NEW YORKER, where much of his work was to be seen following the end of hostilities.
‘Loyal Japanese Fight for the U.S.A.”
(Click Magazine, 1943)
This photo essay from CLICK MAGAZINE consists of six black and white images illustrating the Nisei officers and GIs toiling under the merciless sun at Camp Shelby, Mississippi prior to being shipped out for combat duty in Italy. The accompanying paragraph sums up quite nicely their devotion to the United States, declaring that for these Japanese-Americans, democracy outweighs blood ties, yet says not a word about the internment camps.
CLICK HERE to read about the beautiful Blonde Battalions who spied for the Nazis…
Badly Needed Dollars Shipped Overseas…
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1932)
No wonder there isn’t any dough to be found -the Commerce Department revealed that immigrant remittances to their countries of origin reached as high as $173,000,000 in 1931. The Italians were the most eager participants, with the Greeks in the number two position.
Click here to read about the American South during the Great Depression.
The French Army in Africa
(The Commonweal, 1941)
Attached is a history article concerning the various organizations that made up the French Colonial Army in Africa:
Before and during the World War, all the different races serving in the French Army were excellently officered by subalterns and non-coms born in North Africa, but of European ancestry: by sons of immigrated colonists of French, Spanish and Italian extraction.
The late Marshal Lyautey used to say of these sons of European settlers: ‘Their knowledge of the ways of the natives is priceless, because they have assimilated it from childhood. In the native regiments, they constitute a human concrete, which keeps together men of antagonistic races and beliefs’
Hermann Goering: Power Hungry Graff Master
(Click Magazine, 1943)
Appearing on the pages of a 1943 CLICK MAGAZINE was this article by Austrian journalist Alfred Tyrnauer, who was no stranger to Nazi terror. The journalist explained quite clearly for his American readers who exactly Hermann Goering was, his shameless looting in all Nazi-occupied zones and the goings-on within Goering Works, the German re-armament trust.
Master crook, blackmailer and general villain Reichsmarshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, second most potent Nazi, ‘owns’ the world’s largest industrial empire by right of possession. Gross Goering has stopped at nothing, not even murder, to enrich himself and insure his future comfort, whether the Nazi regime stands or falls.
Rebellion Behind the Iron Curtain
(Coronet Magazine, 1952)
Here are seven stories about the freedom-craving rebels who made life difficult for the Soviet overseers who commanded the slave states in Eastern Europe.
Click here to read a Cold War editorial by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.
John Barrymore
(Coronet Magazine, 1951)
John Barrymore (né John Sidney Blyth: 1882 – 1942) is said to have been one of America’s finest actors; co-star in an ensemble cast of thespians that consisted of his brother Lionel and sister Ethel, they were known around Broadway and Hollywood as the Barrymores. Today he is primarily known as the great-grandfather of Drew Barrymore (b. 1975). Although badly plagued by alcoholism, he managed to play his parts admirably – and those who knew him best both on the stage and off, remember him in this article.
A far more revealing article about Barrymore can be read here.
Stuart Davis: Thirty Years of Evolution
(Art Digest, 1945)
A review of the Stuart Davis (1892 – 1964) retrospective that opened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the fall of 1945. The artist referred to his influences:
In my own case I have enjoyed the dynamic American scene for many years, and all my pictures (including the ones I painted in Paris) are referential to it. They all have their originating impulse in the impact of [the]contemporary American environment.
James Beard on Cheese
(Gentry Magazine, 1957)
It can be soft, hard, sweet, sour, hot, cold, pungent or bland.
It comes in various shapes and many colors.
It can be inodorous or effuvious.
It is known in every country, to every tongue.
Whatever its shape, hue, scent or nationality it is one of the most ancient,
most honorable of foods and it is called cheese.
A wise man once said A Meal Without Cheese is Like a Beautiful Woman with One Eye.