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1940s Fashion, 1948, Collier's Magazine, Recent Articles

The Fashion Group
(Collier’s Magazine, 1948)

By editor / June 12, 2016

At the time this article appeared on the pages of COLLIER’S MAGAZINE, the Fashion Group was already over twenty years old and in need of more office space.

Established in 1928 by the crowned-heads of the American fashion industry, it was decided that the dominate fashionistas ‘needed a forum, a stage, or a force to express and enhance a widening awareness of the American fashion business and of women’s roles in that business. This article points out that there were present in that room on that historic day a smattering of women who toiled in the vineyards as fashion journalists and collectively it was understood that the two groups very much relied upon each other.
The Fashion Group was established in order to:

judge trends by watching sales figures, which indicate which fashions are on the wane and which are gaining favor. They travel around to see what we do, and therefore, what we need.

Today, the Fashion Group has offices in every major American city as well as branches in the fashion capitols of Europe, South America and Asia.

1945, Atomic Bombs, Recent Articles, Yank Magazine

The Making of the Atomic Bomb
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

By editor / June 10, 2016

The Manhattan Project was the code name given to the allied effort to develop the Atomic Bomb during World War Two. The research and development spanned the years 1942 through 1946 and the participating nations behind the effort were the Unites States, Great Britain and Canada. Within the United States, there were as many as three locations where the Manhattan Project was carried out however this article concerns the goings-on at the uranium-enrichment facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The article presents the point of view of your basic PFC on the base; how he had to maintain the necessary secrecy, what was it like living among such a plethora of pointy-headed slide-rule jockeys and how grateful they were to be living the comfortable life, while so many other draftees fared so poorly.

1944, D-Day, Recent Articles, Yank Magazine

Captured: A Woman Sniper
(Yank Magazine, 1944)

By editor / June 9, 2016

A small notice from a post D-Day YANK announced the capture of a German woman sniper named, Myra.

Click here if you would like to read about women combatants during W.W. I.

1930 US Immigration Info | Immigration Records from the 1930 U.S. Census

1932, Immigration History, Pathfinder Magazine

The Foreign-Born Population in the Early ’30s
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1932)

By editor / June 5, 2016

A brief notice from the 1930 Census reporting on that percentage of the United States population that was born on foreign shores. Within the confines of this small paragraph some details were provided as to how many arrived prior to 1900, how many between 1901 and 1910; 1911 and 1919; 1920 and 1930. Additional information appears concerning the assorted racial make-up of these new American and how many of them originated from both quota and non-quota nations.

Was WW I Inevitable | Bismark on German Competition With England

1897, Prelude, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

Must England Destroy Germany?
(Literary Digest, 1897)

By editor / June 2, 2016

Bismark (1815 – 1898) has long since recognized what at length the people of England are beginning to understand, that England and Germany must come to blows over the right to levy from the whole world the tribute of commerce…

1944, Recent Articles, Tricolor Magazine, World War Two

Letter from France
(Tricolor Magazine, 1944)

By editor / May 31, 2016

A British staff officer who was an eyewitness to the Allied breakout from the Normandy hedgerows compiled all the assorted questions that friends and family had written to him in their respective letters and answered them in a public format published in TRICOLOR MAGAZINE:

What do you feel when you see people dead?

Just an urgent desire to get by quickly and a feeling of revulsion which is greater or less according to the length of time the body has been dead… There is no difference in appearance between decomposing men and decomposing animals and the same stench comes from both.

1922, Charlie Chaplin Articles, Current Opinion Magazine, Recent Articles

Charlie Chaplin Wanted to be Taken Seriously
(Current Opinion, 1922)

By editor / May 27, 2016

We have all seen it many times before: the well-loved, widely accepted comedian who decides that being adored by the masses is simply not enough. For too many comic talents, sadly, there comes a time when they slip on one banana peel too many and it occurs to them that they want the world to appreciate them for their ability to think. Comics who fill this description might be Al Frankin, Woody Allen or Steve Martin.

This article tries to understand why Chaplin wanted to play a tragic part in a 1921 London stage adaptation of William Thackeray’s ‘Vanity Fair’.
We have seen such behavior in comics many times before, they hadn’t.

1921, Recent Articles, Writing

An Austrian at the German Supreme Headquarters
(Times Literary Supplement, 1921)

By editor / May 26, 2016

Reviewed herein is the W.W. memoir of General von Josef Graf Sturgkh (1859 – 1916) memoir recalling his days in Berlin serving as the Austrian Army delegate to the German military’s Great Headquarters (1915 – 1916):

Graf Sturgkh drops several hints about the very heavy losses incurred by the Germans in the very first weeks of the war…

1917, Recent Articles, The Times Literary Supplement, Writing

An Englishman in the French Army
(Times Literary Supplement, 1917)

By editor / May 26, 2016

Under the French Flag is a W.W. I memoir by M. Macdonald in which the author tells the story of an Englishman who chose to sign up for the French Army due to their lax recruiting regulations which provided for the enlistment of men as old as fifty years of age. The reviewer believed the author recounted some interesting scenes of early-war France and French barracks life.

Click here to read articles about W.W. I poetry.

1956, The Dept. of the Army, The Korean War

The Two Korean Armies Compared
(Dept. of the Army, 1956)

By editor / May 25, 2016

This single page analysis of the North Korean People’s Army and the Army of South Korea will clue you in pretty quickly as to why President Truman hastened to get the necessary beans, bullets and band-aids delivered to the South as quickly as he did. This comparison, written by the U.S. Army History Section, clearly indicates that the North Korean force was intended to be an offensive army; well-equipped and fast-a-foot; the army of the South, by comparison, was intended (for some unexplained reason) to fight limited engagements – rather than prolonged, corps sized campaigns.

It was no surprise to the assorted military insiders of the world when the South Korean capital of Seoul was seized three days into the war.

Irish Playwright Sean O'Casey | Biography of Sean O'Casey

1934, Recent Articles, Stage Magazine, Twentieth Century Writers

Sean O’Casey: Laborer, Playwright, Poet
(Stage Magazine, 1934)

By editor / May 21, 2016

Drama critic Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick interviewed Irish playwright Seán O’Casey
(1880 – 1964) for the November, 1934, issue of STAGE MAGAZINE and wrote this piece which clearly illustrated his art and politics.

1914, Men's Fashion, Recent Articles, The Delineator Magazine

Good Taste and the Year 1914
(The Delineator Magazine, 1914)

By editor / May 21, 2016

A quick read for costumers and historians regarding the fashion dos and don’ts on the matter of men’s ready-made clothes from 1914.

1936, Dada History, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

Dada at MOMA
(Literary Digest, 1936)

By editor / May 21, 2016

An amusing, if blasphemous, art review of the Museum of Modern Art’s 1936 Dada and Surrealism exhibit.
The journalist oddly credited Joan Miro as the author of the Dada movement.

The Marx Brothers of the art world are displayed, in all their unrestrained glory, in an exhibition of Fantastic Art in New York this week.

An exhibition of this type is always easy prey for the practical joker. A similar show in Paris several years ago exhibited a shovel, submitted by a well-known but discontented artist as an example of perfect symmetry.

Click here to read about the contempt that the Nazis had for Modern Art.

1913, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest, Women's Suffrage

Violent Women
(The Literary Digest, 1913)

By editor / May 21, 2016

With the number violent acts committed by destructive Suffragettes quickly growing, the British patriarchs considered deporting them to Australia and other dominions as a just punishment for such a class of women.

Read about an attack on President Wilson that was launched by the suffragettes in 1918…

1945, Recent Articles, World War Two, Yank Magazine

A Writer in the Ranks
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

By editor / May 20, 2016

Dashiel Hammett (1894 – 1961) had a pretty swell resume by the time World War II came along. He had written a string of well-received novels and enjoyed a few well-paying gigs in Hollywood. During the war years it was rare, but not unheard of, for an older man with such accomplishments to enlist in the army – and that is just what he did. The attached article spells out Hammett’s period serving on an Alaskan army base, his slow climb from Buck Private to sergeant, his difficulty with officers and the enjoyment of being anonymous.

Accompanying the article is a black and white image of the writer wearing Uncle Sam’s olive drab, herringbone twill – rather than the tell-tale tweed he was so often photographed wearing.

Click here to read a 1939 STAGE MAGAZINE profile of Hammett’s wife, the playwright Lillian Hellman.

1947, Battle of the Bulge, Commonweal Magazine, Recent Articles

‘Dark December”
(The Commonweal, 1947)

By editor / May 20, 2016

This is the 1947 review of Robert Merrian’s history on the Battle of the Bulge, Dark December; the reviewer, T.E. Cassidy, had served as a U.S. Army intelligence officer in the Ardennes:

Merriam is at his best analyzing the actual confusion that was rampant from the very beginning of the German drive on December 16th. I know his handling is expert here, for I was in the midst of the chaos, and can vividly recall, for example, the blank stares I met at various headquarters when I would ask what road net was clear, and to what point. It was really no one’s fault, after the first day or two. People simply did not know what was happening. And it was days and days before there was any concerted agreement among the different levels as to just what was going on.

1947, Battle of the Bulge, Commonweal Magazine, Recent Articles

‘Dark December”
(The Commonweal, 1947)

By editor / May 20, 2016

This is the 1947 review of Robert Merrian’s history on the Battle of the Bulge, Dark December; the reviewer, T.E. Cassidy, had served as a U.S. Army intelligence officer in the Ardennes:

1956, Gentry Magazine, Men's Fashion, Recent Articles

The Beau
(Gentry Magazine, 1956)

By editor / May 12, 2016

Widely remembered as the best dressed man of the Nineteenth Century, Beau Brummell, (né George Bryan Brummell 1778 – 1840), set the standard for male sartorial splendor and as a result, his name
liveth ever more.

The attached men’s fashion article was written at a time when American leisure wear was going through it’s birth pangs and slovenly attire was on the rise all over the fruited plain; it was thoroughly appropriate for the editors of GENTRY MAGAZINE to print this article which not only examined the clothing philosophy of the Beau but also paid heed as to which actors portrayed him on screen (oddly, there was no mention made whatever as to who the various costume designers were).

He dressed simply, without ornamentation. What was it then that set him apart so ostentatiously from the crowd? What made him the best dressed man of the century? The answer lies not, as history has decided, in his clothes. It lay entirely in the way he wore them.

A further study of Dandies can be found here…

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