Articles from Gentry Magazine
This summer calls for some thought on that most succulent of all shellfish: lobster.
Attached herein are three easy recipes, not for quick preparation and fast dining, but rather for more leisurely days or evenings following a day on the beach.
Lobster Recipes (Gentry Magazine, 1956) Read More »
Here is an article from GENTRY MAGAZINE on the delightful day and high expectations of a French cognac taster:
This is how it works: each morning, from about ten o’clock until lunch, at one, the taster receives in his office those farmers and distillers who have come to offer him samples of their cognac. The taster has eaten only a very small breakfast hours before. His stomach is practically empty…The taster never fills the glass with cognac, for that way the bouquet is lost . Instead, he pours in the cognac until the glass is one-third or at most half filled. Then he turns the glass so that the cognac is twirled in the glass and it’s vapors mix even more with the air of the glass…
A fascinating read.
The Grand Cognac Taster (Gentry Magazine, 1956) Read More »
Fads like ukulele strumming and flagpole sitting have not been seen on college campi since the 1920s – but the undergraduates in 1956 did adopt one fashion element from the Twenties – their father’s raccoon coats.
Click here to read about the Ivy League look for 1953.
THE RETURN OF THE RACCOON COAT (Gentry Magazine, 1956) Read More »
Fads like ukulele strumming and flagpole sitting have not been seen on college campi since the 1920s – but the undergraduates in 1956 did adopt one fashion element from the Twenties – their father’s raccoon coats.
Click here to read about the Ivy League look for 1953.
THE RETURN OF THE RACCOON COAT (Gentry Magazine, 1956) Read More »
Fads like ukulele strumming and flagpole sitting have not been seen on college campi since the 1920s – but the undergraduates in 1956 did adopt one fashion element from the Twenties – their father’s raccoon coats.
Click here to read about the Ivy League look for 1953.
THE RETURN OF THE RACCOON COAT (Gentry Magazine, 1956) Read More »
The attached notice recalled one of the grandest moments in baseball history when Babe Ruth played it up to his fans:
Then like an actor who, having played a part so often, knows it by heart, Ruth majestically waved toward the right center field wall. A moment later the Babe’s pantomimed prediction was a reality. As the crowd, sensing the finale of the drama, rose to its feet, Ruth slammed a homer almost exactly where he had pointed.
The Showmanship of Babe Ruth (Gentry Magazine, 1952) Read More »
The attached notice recalled one of the grandest moments in baseball history when Babe Ruth played it up to his fans:
Then like an actor who, having played a part so often, knows it by heart, Ruth majestically waved toward the right center field wall. A moment later the Babe’s pantomimed prediction was a reality. As the crowd, sensing the finale of the drama, rose to its feet, Ruth slammed a homer almost exactly where he had pointed.
The Showmanship of Babe Ruth (Gentry Magazine, 1952) Read More »
Few realize that when we applaud the tremendous style that went into so much of the design of 1950s American cars, we are actually praising the fertile mind of Harley J. Earl (1893 – April 10, 1969):
Earl, who served as the Vice-President of Design at General Motors, conceived of so many design elements that are associated with that period, such as wrap-around windshields, tail-fins and two-tone paint styling. In the attached article, written when he was at the top of his game, Harley Earl tells his readers what is involved in automobile design:
Shakespeare has told us ‘neither a borrower nor a lender be’. An automobile stylist must be both. He must borrow his ideas from the creatures and creations of nature which are all about him…
Harley Earl on Car Design (Gentry Magazine, 1956) Read More »
During the early days of 1953 some of the young men of the World War Two generation looked into their grandfather’s wardrobes and came away with a new friend – the Norfolk jacket:
There has been some talk concerning the possible revival of certain Edwardian fashions. In the renewed acceptance of the Norfolk jacket, which takes its name from the 15th Duke of Norfolk, we have the revival of a style which is even older, having first come into being during the Victorian era….In 1910 it was so well accepted that few small lads of that era were content unless they had a Norfolk coat just like their fathers’.
Buy an Original Pattern:
1870s-1900s Norfolk Jacket Pattern
The Revival of the Norfolk Jacket (Gentry Magazine, 1953) Read More »
It can be soft, hard, sweet, sour, hot, cold, pungent or bland.
It comes in various shapes and many colors.
It can be inodorous or effuvious.
It is known in every country, to every tongue.
Whatever its shape, hue, scent or nationality it is one of the most ancient,
most honorable of foods and it is called cheese.
A wise man once said A Meal Without Cheese is Like a Beautiful Woman with One Eye.
James Beard on Cheese (Gentry Magazine, 1957) Read More »
