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Washington Weighs in on China (Pathfinder Magazine, 1949)
1949, China - Twentieth Century, Pathfinder Magazine

Washington Weighs in on China
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1949)

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Seasoned Washington journalist Felix Morley (1894 – 1982) discussed the complicated issues involved in the diplomatic recognition of Communist China:

All the obvious arguments are against recognition. The Red regime in China has imprisoned our official representatives, confiscated American property, flouted and insulted us in a dozen different ways.

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.

Can There be Peace with Stalin? (United States News & World Report, 1948)
1948, The Cold War

Can There be Peace with Stalin?
(United States News & World Report, 1948)

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The Berlin Blockade was already six weeks old when this article appeared proclaiming that peace with the Soviet Union was still possible:

Russia and the U.S. are in the midst of another showdown on peace. Odds favor a settlement, not war.

Peace terms are shifting closer to compromise. Russia is more interested in seeking peace, less interested in stalling… Each side is out to get the best possible terms. But prospects for easing the tension of cold war are good.


Click here to read about the Berlin Blockade.

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The Hollywood Happenings in the Spring of '44 (Yank Magazine, 1944)
1944, Hollywood, Yank Magazine

The Hollywood Happenings in the Spring of ’44
(Yank Magazine, 1944)

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Tenderly ripped from the brittle pages of a 1944 issue of YANK MAGAZINE was this short paragraph which explained all the goings-on within the sun-bleached confines of Hollywood, California:

Rita Hayworth steps into the top spot in the Columbia production, ‘Tonight and Every Night’; Ethel Barrymore returns to the screen after 11 years’ absence to share honors with with Cary Grant in ‘None but the Loney Heart’…In ‘Something for the Boys’ Carmen Miranda will sing ‘Mairzy Doats’… etc, etc, etc.

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Television with All It's Possibilities (Stage Magazine, 1939)
1939, Early Television, Stage Magazine

Television with All It’s Possibilities
(Stage Magazine, 1939)

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There wasn’t a single soul in 1939 would have imagined that television would be the sort of venue that would allow millions of strangers to see Tyra Banks get a breast exam, but that is the kind of institution it has become.

STAGE MAGAZINE correspondent Alan Rinehart was astonished that so much dough was being invested in such a young industry, yet he recognized that T.V. was capable of much good, but was also capable of generating the kind of banality that we’re used to.

What then, will be the entertainment value of television?…What’s to be the entertainment? Why should we tune in? Will we get more than we will on the radio?…The revolutionary idea about television is that the medium has been developed before the art. It’s as if the piano had been invented before music, or paint and canvas before drawing.

Dance International (Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)
1937, Dance Magazine Articles, Pathfinder Magazine

Dance International
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)

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In New York last week, on the polished floor of the Rainbow Room, Rockefeller Center’s skyscraping night club, Hawaiians, Chinese, Scandinavians and Africans stamped whirled, leaped, and gesticulated to a dozen different kinds of music…it was an exposition of no little cultural and social importance – ‘Dance International,’ a festival showing the progress of the dance in all nations since 1900.


In their quest to document the evolution of dance in the United States, the audiences were treated to Modern Dance performances by Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Paul Weidman and Paul Haakon.

BBC Television Broadcasting Begins (Literary Digest, 1935)
1935, Early Television, The Literary Digest

BBC Television Broadcasting Begins
(Literary Digest, 1935)

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The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that they were capable of transmitting television programming as early as 1935:

The British engineers plan to begin with a single broadcasting tower, capable of transmitting television images to receiving sets within a radius of about thirty miles…British engineers are not the first to try television broadcasting. A station has been operating regularly in Berlin for several months.

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1933, Sino-Japanese Wars, The Literary Digest

The Japanese Drive on Beijing
(The Literary Digest, 1933)

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The aggressive ambitions of Japan know no bounds. The occupation of Peiping [Beijing] will lead to further aggression in Shantung and Shansi and other northern provinces, and will result either in the establishment of a new puppet regime in North China.

The Shanghai SHUN PAO, an independent newspaper, bewails the futility of the uncoordinated resistance which has prevailed among China’s forces since the capture of Jehol, and it adds:

The only possibilities now are peace by compromise or a continuance of war. Despite the dangers of the latter course it is the only possible solution, but resistance must be coordinated under an able leader, China must fight or become a second Korea.

Waiting for Television (Literary Digest, 1937)
1937, Early Television, The Literary Digest

Waiting for Television
(Literary Digest, 1937)

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Written in response to the loud cries generated by those would-be pioneering couch-potatoes, this article presents a lengthy list of all the technical difficulties the young television broadcasting industry had to deal with in 1937.

First to have commercial television, it is agreed, will be New York City, then Philadelphia. In both of these cities transmitting-stations already exist. Advancement to other urban centers will be slower. Chicago, for example will have commercial television only after it has been made to pay in New York and Philadelphia. As each city’s television enterprises become self-supporting, installation will be begun in a new center.

One Cartoonist's View of Depression Era Hollywood...(Ken Magazine, 1939)
1939, Hollywood History, Ken Magazine

One Cartoonist’s View of Depression Era Hollywood…(Ken Magazine, 1939)

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A full page drawing of the sound stage-spangled Hollywood landscape picturing all the usual suspects – the Hollywood glory girls, studio yes-men and sub-literate European starlets -all sweltering beneath the intense heat of the occidental sun.

Click here to see cartoons about the silent movie culture.

Click here to read historic magazine articles about American animated films.

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Rudy Vallee: 'Vagabond Lover' (Film Spectator, 1929)
1929, Talkies 1930, The Film Spectator Magazine

Rudy Vallee: ‘Vagabond Lover’
(Film Spectator, 1929)

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It is not surprising to think that one of the first sound movies to be made had to consist of a plot that involved a musical number, and when put to the task of writing his review of VAGABOND LOVER (1929: RKO Pictures) the well respected film critic Welford Beaton dished-out some lukewarm opinions concerning it’s star, crooner/teen-idol Rudy Vallee (1901 – 1986):

The laddie’s face is set in a sort of perpetual sorrow which, added to the fact that he seldom looks the camera in the eye, makes him seem like the wraith of some calamity walking through the scenes. Only the voice is virile…

The Tennis Blazer (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1916)
1916, Tennis History, Vanity Fair Magazine

The Tennis Blazer
(Vanity Fair Magazine, 1916)

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This article dates to a the dear, dead days when tennis balls were white and landscapers (rather than diesel machinery) were relied upon to make tennis courts; it was also a time when the abilities of a skilled tailor were required for tennis clothing. These court-side stylists would not simply monitor the drape of tennis trousers but they would anticipate the unspoken needs of their tennis dandies – and in so doing, the tennis blazer was born.

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1918, Golf History

The Working-Class Golfer
(A and N Catalog, 1918)

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The 1920s editors of VANITY FAIR MAGAZINE would never have endorsed this ready-wear golfing jacket, nor would they have thought much of the country club that would permit such togs; but by today’s barbarian standards which decide what passes for acceptable golf apparel, we think it’s pretty nice.

1925, Fashion, The Delineator Magazine

Hats from the Spring of 1925
(The Delineator, 1925)

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Tenderly ripped from a copy of Delineator Magazine was this one page that featured nine chic illustrations of the fashionable hats for the Spring of 1925.

The small hat trimmed on top with an artichoke bow, pom-poms, gardenias, roses, water lilies, violets or quills is very popular…Hats for general wear remain head-size. The large hat is seen occasionally with afternoon gowns and will be worn with more formal Summer frocks.


Click here to see a beautifully photographed article about the fashionable hats of 1947.


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