Articles from Gentry Magazine
Reagan was the first actor to become president, Buchanan the first tailor, Jefferson the first architect and Abraham Lincoln was the first writer to move into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue:
The world has long known that Lincoln liked an occasional back-room story. Here is the only record – in his own handwriting – of that earthy side of the Great Emancipator.
Abe Lincoln: Short Story Writer… (Gentry Magazine, 1956) Read More »
Food writer Sam Aaron (1911 – 1996) let loose a slew of his well-researched thoughts on the matter of how well cheese and wine complement one another and provided us with a helpful list of which type of wines harmonize best with certain cheeses:
With Italian cheeses, such as Taleggio Cheese Provolone, I like a delicate red wine made near Verona called Bardolino. Frank Schoonmaker
Selecting the Wine and Cheese (Gentry Magazine, 1957) Read More »
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1952 College Fashions (Gentry Magazine, 1952) Read More »
Attached, you will find the preferred brandy-based drink recipes of three outstanding Virginians: Nathaniel Bacon, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
18th Century Christmas Grogs (Gentry Magazine, 1956) Read More »
Compiled four years after the Babe’s death, the attached list will provide you with a compilation of all the various, assorted mosts that Babe Ruth racked up during his baseball career:
Most home runs, lifetime…………………………….714
Most home runs, American League………………708
Most home runs, World Series…………………….15
Most home runs, season…………………………….60
Most years leading in home runs………………….12
etc…etc…
Babe Ruth’s Record (Gentry Magazine, 1952) Read More »
Babe Ruth hit his sixtieth home run on October 1, 1927:
The mighty blow came off a south-paw throw of Tom Zachary, Senator pitcher, as he saw his low, hard one belted into Babe’s favorite parking place, the right field bleachers. This hit not only set a record, but won the game since the score was deadlocked at two-two in the eighth, when the Pasha of Bash stepped to the rubber with one out and Koenig on third…
Take a look at an interesting article about baseball played in Japanese prison camps.
Home Run No. 60 (Gentry Magazine, 1952) Read More »
Babe Ruth hit his sixtieth home run on October 1, 1927:
The mighty blow came off a south-paw throw of Tom Zachary, Senator pitcher, as he saw his low, hard one belted into Babe’s favorite parking place, the right field bleachers. This hit not only set a record, but won the game since the score was deadlocked at two-two in the eighth, when the Pasha of Bash stepped to the rubber with one out and Koenig on third…
Take a look at an interesting article about baseball played in Japanese prison camps.
Home Run No. 60 (Gentry Magazine, 1952) Read More »
The artist-editor-author-publisher of TOPOLSKI’S CHRONICLE, the London fortnightly, recently visited America. These are his drawings and comments on an American-Greek-god-sex-hero phenomenon:
But, however mystically chosen, why Elvis Presley? Because, I think, he possess very happily the godlike value of all-embracing popularity: he is vulgar, yet stylish in the ‘zoot’ manner – thus he appeals to both the sophisticated and the simple. And his manhood is above suspicion…
Impressions of Elvis (Gentry Magazine, 1957) Read More »
*Click here to read about the 1956 college fashion craze*
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This article, by celebrated chef James Beard (1903 – 1985), walks us through the history of Champagne as only a true lover of food and wine can do:
Not until around 1670 was a way discovered to imprison those tantalizing bubbles in every bottle, and keep the bottle from exploding. Credit for inventing sparkling Champagne is attributed, inaccurately perhaps, to a Benedictine monk named Dom Perignon…It is said that as an old, blind man, Dom Perignon could sniff a glass of Champagne, sip it, swish it about his mouth, and then unfailingly say from what hillside the grapes had come…
James Beard on Champagne (Gentry Magazine, 1955) Read More »
