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Paris, 1918: La Guerre Fini! (The Stars and Stripes, 1918)
1918, The Stars and Stripes, World War One

Paris, 1918: La Guerre Fini!
(The Stars and Stripes, 1918)

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Yank and Aussie and Jock, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Pole, Checko-Slovak, Tommy, Indian, all from the newly arrived Brazilians to the wizened and and weather-beaten poilus wearing the seven brisques denoting four years in the furnace, knew no nationality, no difference of tongues or even of uniform.


Click here to read another article about the 1918 Armistice.


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The British Home Front Observed (Harper's Weekly, 1915)
1915, Harper's Weekly, World War One

The British Home Front Observed
(Harper’s Weekly, 1915)

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Attached is one American journalist’s view of the Great War as it is waged on the home-front by the British people. He was impressed with the resolve of the population to win the war and he found that everyone, regardless of age or infirmity, was pursuing war work with a surprising earnestness.

The outward evidences of a nation at war are plentiful in London. Soldiers are everywhere. Columns of armed men and columns of recruits still in civilian clothes march through the streets. Drilling goes on in the parks and other places all day and every day.


Read about how the First World War effected life on the campus of Eton College.

The Atmosphere of W.W. I Paris (Atlantic Monthly, 1918)
1918, The Atlantic Monthly, World War One

The Atmosphere of W.W. I Paris
(Atlantic Monthly, 1918)

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William Beebe is best remembered for his exploration of the oceans in a submersible craft called a Bathysphere, however, as a younger man his study of nature brought him to war-weary Paris.

Four devastating years of war had altered the city and made quite an affect on the young naturalist. His astute and very moving observations were recorded in this essay, A Naturalist in Paris.


This link displays the first six pages; the remaining seven pages are available upon request.


Click here to read about the day when the Nazis took Paris.

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Traveling Movie Theaters (Click Magazine, 1944)
1944, Click Magazine, Hollywood History

Traveling Movie Theaters
(Click Magazine, 1944)

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Two million Americans have as their principal form of visual entertainment nomad movies, run by some 3000 road-showmen who present their motion pictures in tents, auditoriums or churches. Few city folks realize that this is the way in which entertainment is brought to about 5000 U.S. towns of less than 1000 population… Road-showmen say that the favorite shows are fast-action westerns and occasional comedies. Mushy love scenes are box-office poison among their clientele. During harvest seasons, when customers can best afford the ten to twenty-five cents admission charge, these showmen take in between $75.00 and $150.00 a week.

These were not the only traveling entertainers during the Thirties: the Federal Theater Project also sent hoards of players throughout the nation to amuse and beguile – you can read about that here


Click here to read about Marilyn Monroe and watch a terrific documentary about her life.

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Marshal Pétain on Trial (Commonweal, 1945)
1945, Commonweal Magazine, France

Marshal Pétain on Trial
(Commonweal, 1945)

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An irate editorial concerning the 1945 trial of French General Henri Philippe Pétain (1856 – 1951).

Whoever is managing the current spectacle in Paris desires us to think that the Petain trial is a revolutionary trial. The thesis is that the whole French nation has risen against the politicians who did not prepare for the war, against the Marshal who signed the the armistice, collaborated with the Germans and betrayed France. And so that trial is not a search for truth, it is a public exposure of truth, it is a simple demonstration…Look at them: Daladier, Reynaud, Weygrand – how they fight each one against the other. Because it is not just Petain who is guilty. It is Petain’s trial. But it is also the trial of all the witnesses… Everyone is guilty.

1938 Maginot Line Magazine Article | Genius of Maginot Line 1938
1938, France, The Literary Digest

The Maginot Line Will Save Us
(Literary Digest, 1938)

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The Maginot Line will permit calm French mobilization, experts say, in the event of a crisis. It may be noted, from a study of these forts on a map, that the chief point of concentration is approximately opposite the reoccupied Rhine zone. The Paris newspaper, Le Soir, says that no army can break down the Maginot Line.


Click here to read an article about French confidence in the Maginot Line.

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General George S Patton Obituary | General George Patton Magazine Article
1945, Newsweek, World War Two

Ol’ Blood ‘N Guts Goes South
(Newsweek, 1945)

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Here is the Newsweek obituary for the American W.W. II army commander General George S. Patton:

As spectacular in his tactics as in his speech, he used his armor as Jeb Stuart employed his cavalry… Time after time his divisions broke through and slashed forward in drives which made military history. After the victory, German generals said they had feared him more than any other American field commander.


Click here to read about Patton’s prayer for good weather during the Battle of the Bulge…


Click here to read about the Patton Tank in the Korean War…

Leopard and Zebra Prints Become the Thing, Again (Quick Magazine, 1954)
1950s Fashion, 1954, Quick Magazine

Leopard and Zebra Prints Become the Thing, Again
(Quick Magazine, 1954)

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Two years before this article went to press, some Delphian at Quick Magazine scribbled these words:

Expect fashion designers to jump on the African trend in literature and entertainment. Examples: four new African [themed] films (Cry the Beloved Countrystyle=border:none, The Magic Gardenstyle=border:none, Latuko and The African Queenstyle=border:none) to be followed by a Walt Disney African wildlife film.


– next thing you know, down fashion’s runways sashay the teen waifs – all clad as if they were the striped and spotted beasts who prance upon the Serengeti Plain.

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Did Imperial Japan Like Their German Allies | Fascist Japan and Nazi Germany Were Mismatched Allies
1943, Collier's Magazine, World War Two

The Japanese Did Not Like The Germans
(Collier’s Magazine, 1943)

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A ranking member of of the German embassy staff in Tokyo told me a few weeks before Pearl Harbor, ‘If Japan goes to war against America and Britain, our days will be numbered here, too. Japan will wage a race war in which we Germans will be regarded as enemies along with the rest of the white race. It is only a matter of time. They intend to conquer all of us, but they are smart enough not to tackle all of us at once.’


Imperial Japan had a great many reasons to dislike their Nazi ally and most of them were far more legitimate than this one. All of them are are laid out in the attached article.

Iwo Jima Beachmaster 1945 | USN Captain Carl Squeaky Anderson on Iwo Jima | Supplies for Iwo Jima Invasion
1945, Iwo Jima, Newsweek

The Beachmaster
(Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

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One of the most familiar human sounds in any Central Pacific operation is a rasping, oath-throwing voice with a rich Scandinavian accent which booms out over the loudspeaker on the invasion beaches. The voice threatens, gives orders with no reservations, pleads and intimidates. It is the voice of a Navy captain, Carl E. (Squeaky) Anderson, the force, or senior, beachmaster – the man who unloads the ships and keeps the supplies (all 64,000 tons) rolling in.

Iwo Jima, he says, is the worst beach he’s ever had anything to do with.

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1950 Television Viewing Data | How Television Changed Sports | Television Impact On Sports
1950, Early Television, Pathfinder Magazine

TV Viewers And Sports Attendance
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1950)

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Without a doubt, the strongest impulse to buy the earliest televisions came from sports fans. The deep lust in their hearts to witness their favorite sporting events as it happened, free of a bar tab, was a strong one – and the television industry loved them right back. This glorious trifecta consisting of viewers, TV networks and team owners not only altered the way America watched sports, it totally transformed sports itself. Author Steven D. Stark put it nicely in his book Glued to the Set (1997):


Television has changed the sports landscape — changing everything from the salaries, number of teams, and color of uniforms, to the way that fans conceive of sports and athletes alike,

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