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1951, Coronet Magazine, Food and Wine

An Ice Cream History
(Coronet Magazine, 1951)

By editor / February 23, 2016

In this admirable effort to briefly tell the history of ice cream, the authors of this three page narrative begin in the year 62 A.D., pointing out that the Roman Emperor Nero had gone on record declaring his fondness for frozen delicacies, but, as you will read, what he was consuming was in actuality something more along the lines of a snow-cone; but it is good to know that the market was very much in place at such an early moment in time. Jumping ahead some 1,200 years, we learn that Marco Polo had returned from China with a frozen tasty treat:

People tried it out, and something like our sherbet was soon served in many parts of Europe, eventually being improved upon by the addition of milk to resemble ice cream.

The trivia truly begins to flow from that point and we learn that George Washington was really quite fond of the stuff, and how ice cream sundaes and Eskimo Pies came into the world.

A refreshing read.

Food and Wine

Corn on the March
(Confederate Veteran Magazine, 1918)

By editor / February 23, 2016

Forty-three years after the bloody end of the American Civil War, this reminiscence by a Southern officer appeared in print recalling the important roll that corn played during those days as it had throughout all American history:

During the war I commanded the 1st Arkansas Regiment, consisting of twelve hundred men, and during the four years we never saw a piece of bread that contained a grain of wheat flower. We lived entirely on plain corn bread, and my men were strong and kept the best of health….

1936, Jews in the 20th Century, The Literary Digest

‘Some of My Best Friends Are Jewish”
(Literary Digest, 1936)

By editor / February 20, 2016

Jews are like everybody else, only more so.’
So clicked the typewriter of the epigrammatic Dorthy Thompson (1893 – 1961), syndicated columnist and wife of Sinclair Lewis (1885 – 1951)’.

‘Are they?’ queried Robert Gessner (1913 – 1978), twenty-nine-year-old instructor of English at New York University. ‘Then why are they so persecuted?’

‘To answer his own question, the young Michigan-born Jew traveled to Europe, saw Hitler-swayed Jews march from meetings shouting ‘Down with us! Down with Us! Less fantastic were his experiences in Poland, Palestine, the Soviet Union and England…’

1940s Modeling, 1951, Quick Magazine

The ”Actress/Models”
(Quick Magazine, 1951)

By editor / February 15, 2016

The Forties and Fifties were indeed the infancy of the model/actress era; one of the first slashies, Lauren Bacall (b. 1924) was buried in 2014.

1927, Aftermath (WWI), The Nation Magazine

Looking Back at the War with Regret
(The Nation, 1927)

By editor / February 13, 2016

Ten years ago the American people reversed its national tradition against entangling alliances and participation in the political struggles of Europe in order, as it is fondly believed, to make the world safe for democracy, safeguard the rights of small nations and the principle of self-determination… If the causes and justifications for our intervention were based on facts, some evidence of their truth ought now, after ten years, to be apparent.

1929, Babe Ruth Articles, The Literary Digest

Babe Ruth Ranks and his Peers
(Literary Digest, 1929)

By editor / February 12, 2016

The ten best players that Babe Ruth can pick from the major leagues go into an unofficial diamond hall of fame. Ruth started picking these teams as a result of a clubhouse argument…

That there has been no prejudice is best shown, I think, by the fact that I have named six men from the National League and only one from my own league, the American…I haven’t named a single man from my own club, the New York Yankees, the men who play alongside me day after day through the season.

1949, Pathfinder Magazine, The Cold War

Did Stalin Want the U.S. to Recognize China?
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1949)

By editor / February 10, 2016

Felix Morley (1894 – 1982), one of the senior Washington columnists in the early Cold War era, summarized the various concerns involved in the diplomatic recognition of Communist China as well as the surprising issue as to whether or not it was what the Soviet Premiere actually preferred at the time?

There is good reason to believe that the Communist high command in Moscow does not want us to recognize the new Communist government of China

But in recent years we have mixed up diplomatic recognition and moral approval. The absurd result is that we recognize Russia and not Spain, and are at present opposed to recognizing China even though we fear that may be cutting off our nose to spite Stalin’s face.

Magazine Articles Cold War Washington DC | Cold War Washington DC Power Structure

47 Magazine, The Cold War

The Most Powerfull Men in Cold War Washington
(’47 Magazine)

By editor / February 10, 2016

A former player and long-time watcher of the Washington power-game, James Watson Gerard (1867 – 1951) – he was known to have kept a list throughout the decades leading up to his death, of all those Washington insiders who wielded the greatest influence in that burg. Well-heeled journalist, John Gunther (1901 – 1970), managed to catch up with him and his 1947 list, which was comprised of 64 names – some of the names had been on his list for decades (such as W.R. Hearst and Colonel Robert McCormick) others were appearing for the first time (George Gallup and Clark Clifford).

Click here to read about the men BEHIND these men…

Click here to read Ambassador Gerard’s list of the most powerful men in Depression-era Washington (non of them were elected)…

1951, Collier's Magazine, Recent Articles, The Cold War

‘Don’t Count on Germany to Fight”
(Collier’s Magazine, 1951)

By editor / February 10, 2016

Not too long after the end of World War II, the French, British and Americans found that they had to assemble a coalition of nations (NATO) that would be willing to fight the Soviets for what was believed to be an even bigger rumble in the future – but after losing two enormous wars, West Germany refused to join.

1943, American Traitors, Coronet Magazine

Constance Drexel of Massachusetts
(Coronet Magazine, 1943)

By editor / February 9, 2016

The hokum that Constance Drexel (1894 – 1856?) coughed-up over the airwaves on behalf of her Nazi paymasters was considered to have been so negligible in content by the U.S. Department of Justice that all charges against her were dropped.

1922, European Royalty, Vogue Magazine

Alexander of Yugoslavia Joined in Marriage to Marie of Romania
(Vogue Magazine, 1922)

By editor / February 9, 2016

A beautifully illustrated page from VOGUE MAGAZINE reporting from Belgrade on the the royal wedding of Alexander I of Yugoslavia (1888 – 1934) and Marie of Romania (Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen: 1900 – 1961). An earlier posting on this site indicated that the groom had been promised in 1913 to wed Grand Duchess Olga of Russia (1895 – 1918), but there were complications.

Following Alexander’s 1934 assassination, their oldest son, Peter II (1923 – 1970) assumed the throne and presided as the last king of Yugoslavia.

Richard Julius Hermann Krebs German Communist | Jan Valtin German Communist

1939, Ken Magazine, Miscellaneous, Recent Articles

Richard Julius Hermann Krebs Under the Nazi Boot
(Ken Magazine, 1939)

By editor / February 8, 2016

A first-hand account as to the daily goings-on at Hitler’s Plotzensee Prison.
Written by Jan Valtin (alias of Richard Julius Hermann Krebs: 1905 – 1951), one of the few inmates to make his way out of that highly inclusive address and tell the tale. Krebs was a communist in the German resistance movement who later escaped to New York and wrote a book (Out of the Night
) about his experiences in Nazi Germany.

The prisoner who has served his sentence is usually not released; he is surrendered to the Gestapo for an indefinite term in one of the concentration camps, preferably Sachsenhausen or Buchenwald. Incurable hard cases are sent to Dachau…

1919, Aviation History, Popular Mechanics Magazine

French Pilot Glides Under the Arc de Triomphe
(Popular Mechanics, 1919)

By editor / February 6, 2016

A great picture of Lieutenant Charles Godefroy flying his Nieuport under the great arch of Paris during the Autumn of 1919. The stunt was performed three weeks after the French Victory parade that marked the end of the First World War and was intended to serve as a salute to the French pilots who died during the course of that blood bath.

1930, Photoplay Magazine, Recent Articles, Talkies 1930

Various Remarks About the First Talkies
(Photoplay Magazine, 1930)

By editor / February 3, 2016

Assorted quotes addressing some aspects of the 1930 Hollywood and the entertainment industry seated there. Some are prophets who rant-on about the impending failure of talking pictures, others go on about the obscene sums of money generated in the film colony; a few of the wits are well-known to us, like Thomas Edison, George M. Cohan and Walter Winchell but most are unknown – one anonymous sage, remarking about the invention of sound movies, prophesied:

In ten years, most of the good music of the world will be written for sound motion pictures.

1918, Posters, Sea Power Magazine

The ‘Christy Girl’ at War
(Sea Power Magazine, 1918)

By editor / February 3, 2016

When the songwriter Irving Berlin sat down in 1915 to write his well-loved ditty I love the Girl on the Magazine Cover, we have no doubt that it was the Christy Girl who inspired him. The Christy-Girl, so-called, was the creation of the American commercial illustrator Howard Chandler Christy (1873 – 1952) who placed her famous mug on thousands of magazine covers, newspaper ads and billboards.

The attached file consists of two articles, both pertaining to recruiting posters; one for the U.S. Navy and the other for the Marines. In the interest of national security, the Christy-Girl is depicted as a cross-dressing patriot in both of them, and the sailors loved it; they preferred to call her Honey Girl, and as far as they were concerned, that name fit her just fine.

WW1 US Navy Enlistment Poster | TO ARMS W.W. I Navy Recruiting Poster by Milton Bancroft

1918, Posters, Recent Articles, Sea Power Magazine

The Navy Call to Arms
(Sea Power Magazine, 1918)

By editor / February 3, 2016

Attached are a few words on the W.W. I naval recruiting poster To Arms by illustrator Milton Bancroft.

The article primarily describes what the duties of a ship’s bugler are, what this position represents and why this was such an suitable graphic image for recruiting sailors for the war.

1920s Fashion sleeve Details | Parisianne mode 1921

1921, Fashion, Recent Articles, Vogue Magazine

A Look at the Winter Sleeves of 1921
(Vogue Magazine, 1921)

By editor / February 2, 2016

A collection of twelve fashion illustrations depicting the variety of sleeve treatments available during the winter of 1921. Some of the details offered were created by the House of Worth, Captain Molyneux, Martial et Armand and Madeleine and Madeleine.

1960, Coronet Magazine, Hollywood History, Recent Articles

Natalie Wood
(Coronet Magazine, 1960)

By editor / January 30, 2016

This is one of the first profiles of Hollywood beauty and former child star Natalie Wood (1938 – 1981).

The journalist went into some details explaining how she was discovered at the age of five by the director Irving Pichel (1891 – 1954) and how it all steadily snowballed into eighteen years of semi-steady work that provided her with a invaluable Hollywood education (and subsequently creating a thoroughly out-of-control teenager).

At sixteen, Natalie co-starred with the late James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause, and the resulting Dean hysteria swept her forward with him… She cannot bear to be alone. She is full of reasonless fears. Of airplanes. Of snakes. Of swimming in the ocean.

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