Articles from People Today Magazine
In the midst of the Imperial Valley labor strife, on June 27, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill by a vote of 240 to 139 making it possible for farmers to hire illegally entered [Mexicans].
Congress OKs the Hiring of Illegal Farm Workers (People Today Magazine, 1951) Read More »
With the U.S. inducting some 50,000 men a month there must necessarily be a high number of delinquents… Few draft dodgers realize that the FBI steps in when the draft board steps out of the picture. Furthermore delinquents are liable to five years imprisonment.
To read an article about American draft dodgers of W.W. II, click here.
The Draft Dodgers (People Today Magazine, 1950) Read More »
Attached is a brief notice concerning Joseph P. Kennedy (1888 – 1969), Hollywood producer, politician, adulterer and FDR’s one-time ambassador to Britain – and his thwarted attempt to merge the Boston Post with the Boston Globe in order to best influence voters in the 1952 Massachusetts congressional elections.
From Amazon: Assassination of John F. Kennedy Encyclopedia
Daddy’s Boy (People Today, 1952) Read More »
An anonymous scribe at PEOPLE TODAY wrote this well-illustrated piece to mark the occasion that heralded the end of the Negro Baseball League – and the integration of major league baseball in America.
Click here to read a 1954 article about Willie Mays.
The Twilight of Segregated Baseball…(People Today Magazine, 1951) Read More »
Pretty girl’s pictures help sell toothpaste, cigarettes and magazines, so why shouldn’t they help sell religion? This logic is being applied by churchmen producing the new TV series called, This is the Life.
After all – it’s no sin to be pretty – quoth Reverend R.C. Wuerffel, Chairman of the Lutheran TV Production Committee.
It was indeed divine inspiration that graced the craniums of these producing-churchmen employed by the Lutheran Hour Ministries – this television program was an absolute success – appearing first in 1952 and wrapping in 1988. Some of the pretty faces they employed along the way belonged to Annette O’Toole, Kathy Garver, Angie Dickinson, Lisa Pelikan, Mala Powers and Lynn Whitfield.
‘This Is The Life” (People Today Magazine, 1953) Read More »
When it became clear to all that the Black community was not wasting its money or withering under the weight of Syphilis like their White counterparts – it was decided that it was time to erect an interracial hotel in the Nevada casino capital of Las Vegas, and so they did; it was called Moulin Rouge.
Racial Integration Comes to Sin City (People Today Magazine, 1955) Read More »
You can bet that throughout the short career of Marilyn Monroe there were voluminous amounts stylistes, cosmetologists, coiffeurs and doyennes of glamour who came in contact with the headliner at one time or another. Some offered genuine nuggets of beauty wisdom while others could only offer bum steers. Although the name Emmeline Snively may sound like a character from a Charles Dickens novel, she was in actuality the very first woman to offer sound fashion advice to the ingenue – advice that would start her on her path to an unparalleled celebrity status as the preeminent Blonde Bombshell in all of Hollywood. You see, Emmeline Snively was the one who recommended that La Monroe dye her hair that color in the first place.
The Woman Who Created Marilyn Monroe (People Today Magazine, 1954) Read More »
The President has asked all Americans to keep their eyes open for spies and subversives and to report them to the FBI. Who would you start looking for?
Can You Spot a Red? (People Today Magazine, 1950) Read More »
There was one thing the Japanese hated more than being defeated and occupied by the Gai-jin (the Japanese slur for Whites) and that was when their daughters, sisters and nieces began bedding their tormentors and baring their young. Tremendous shame was brought on these women, and their families. This article is about the Amerasian babies who were isolated in a special orphanage designed just for them.
How did all of this come to pass? Click here to find out…
The War-Babies of Occupied Japan (People Today Magazine, 1954) Read More »
She had been a key figure in the most spectacular murder trial of the Gilded Age. An artist’s model, a Broadway chorus girl, the obsession of crazed millionaire and the play thing of one of America’s greatest architects; her beauty was legend – driving men to do the sorts of things that they knew were wrong. Her name was Evelyn Nesbit (1884 – 1967) and when that era faded into obscurity, so did she; until the hard-charging reporters of PEOPLE TODAY found her decades later – in the Land of Fruits and Nuts (Southern California), where the celebrities of yesteryear all go to find themselves.
Whatever Happened to Evelyn Nesbit? (People Today, 1952) Read More »
