Articles from 1952
As college girls talked back to school, it was clear that they had switched their allegiances from saddle shoes
to a new favorite: white bucks
Reference is also made to the rounded-button-collar dress shirts that were appearing on the backs of so many college men at that time.
White Bucks and the College Look (Quick Magazine, 1952) Read More »
Keep it short: that was the M.O. of the hairdressers of the Fifties (as you, no doubt, gathered from this 1949 article) – and this column, accompanied by eight photos, serves as proof. Much of this column pertains to the men who were active in 1952 hair dressing, and their deep thoughts pertaining to pny tails, perms and poodle-cuts.
Click here to read about the short hair craze of the late Forties.
Hair Fashions of the Early 1950s (People Today, 1952) Read More »
Popcorn was introduced as a snack food to American movie-goers as a result of the candy shortages during the earliest years of the Second World War.
Attached is a petite notice documenting the fact that the substitute was a wise one:
By 1952, movie houses accounted for about one-third of the nation’s annual $350 million retail popcorn sales.
Reference is also made to the efforts that were made to secure noiseless popcorn bags.
If popcorn replaced sweets on the home front, what replaced steak?
Popcorn Finds a Home at the Movies (Quick Magazine, 1952) Read More »
A single page from the petite pages of the short-lived magazine QUICK, heralding the arrival of the Bob and Ray radio show:
Two young fugitives from from a Boston radio station (W.H.D.H.) ,Bob Elliott (b. 1923) and Ray Goulding (1922 – 1990) were proving that radio – and some 15 million listeners – could take anything. In exchange for lampooning radio’s most sacred cows – soap operas and commercials – Bob and Ray now have four separate radio shows (two on NBC’s network; two on NBC’s New York station), were on the air five days a week…
The Timeless Comedy of Bob and Ray (Quick Magazine, 1952) Read More »
This is President Herbert Hoover’s recollection as to how his administration addressed the mass demonstrations of W.W. I veterans in need of relief. It is very different from the version recalled in high school history books in that Hoover stated that the order to burn the Anacostia shacks came from General MacArthur, not him.
Read about the the mood of the Great Depression and how it was reflected in the election of 1932 – click here…
President Hoover and the Bonus Marchers (Collier’s Magazine, 1952) Read More »
In this 1952 article, Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States (1929 – 1933) painstakingly explained why he was not responsible for the Great Depression.
‘Don’t Blame Me” (Collier’s Magazine, 1952) Read More »
In the midst of the Korean War, two American squadrons of B-29 bombers spotted UFOs flying high above the towns of Suchon and Wonson. Attached are excerpts from two newspaper editorials on the subject.
U.S. Air Force Spots UFOs Over War-Torn Korea (Quick Magazine, 1952) Read More »
Those darn misogynists in Washington fell asleep at the switch again when they appointed a woman to fill the number two spot at the Department of Defense. The woman in question was Anna Rosenberg (1902 – 1983), an experienced and well-respected hand in the Nation’s Capital who served in that post between 1950 and 1953. During the middle of the war she paid a visit to the American military installations in Korea and wrote warmly about all that she had seen.
‘This I Saw In Korea” (Collier’s Magazine, 1952) Read More »
From the Great Minds Think Alike Department came this small piece about two American sportswear designers, Claire McCardell and Vera Maxwell and their admirable approach in creating a light weather coat that served to both keep women warm in springtime gales, yet accommodate the full, billowing skirts that complemented their feminine forms (as well as the hip padding that accompanied many skirts of the Fifties).
Vera Maxwell and Claire McCardell (Quick Magazine, 1952) Read More »
After trouncing Adlai Stevenson in the November Election, President-Elect Eisenhower made good on the vow he had made earlier and packed his bag for a fact-finding trip to the stagnant front lines on the Korean Peninsula.
No abrupt change in Korea is likely to follow Ike’s visit. He doesn’t plan to negotiate with the Reds there. He is interested in training, equipping and preparing South Koreans to defend themselves… The South Korean’s morale is good. About 400,000 of them are mobilized.
Eisenhower Goes to Korea (Quick Magazine, 1952) Read More »
