Articles from People Today Magazine
For the first time in history, the U.S. government is training professional spies – and picking the brightest college youngsters to make espionage their career. By December, some 250 men and 50 women will be learning the spy business from the bottom up, at schools they mustn’t even admit exist.
A 1951 article about the young CIA can be read by clicking here…
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Building the CIA (People Today Magazine, 1951) Read More »
A smattering of 1953 gowns designed by the most active European fashion designers at the time.
Coronation Gowns (People Today, 1953) Read More »
It was called the Universal-International School of Motion Picture Drama and it was established in 1948 (the year of it’s closing is not so easy to find). The school’s young students were all Universal contract players who had been chosen by legendary casting agent Robert Palmer; a few illustrious names from the alumni list include Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, Shelley Winters, Jeff Chandler and Piper Laurie.
Although he is not listed as a student in that program, Clint Eastwood can clearly be seen in the center of the attached class photo.
A’ is for Acting (People Today Magazine, 1955) Read More »
Sixty years before this article was published, Libero Nardonne, who posed for the Rodin’s celebrated sculpture, The Kiss (1885), enjoyed a life as one of the most popular artist’s model in all of Paris – at a time when the greatest artist’s in the world were residences of that famous burg. Jump forward to 1955 and you would find him a broke and broken man who lived on the streets – nonetheless, he showed the American photographers through the art museums to point out all the masterpieces he had played a part in creating.
He Posed for Auguste Rodin (People Today Magazine, 1955) Read More »
For reasons we are unable to fully comprehend, today’s magazine editors are no longer asked to cast their ballots for a category titled Most Photogenic Figure on TV – but this was not the case in 1951, and Delores Roxanne Rosedale won hands-down.
The Girl ”Loomed Large” – for a Bit (People Today Magazine, 1951; Tempo, 1954) Read More »
Additional magazine and newspaper articles about Cold War spies can be read on this page.
Noel Field: Family of Spies (People Today Magazine, 1950) Read More »
Well-illustrated, pithy and informative, this article will get you up to speed on some of the espionage triumphs of the Soviet GRU (the military intelligence arm of the former worker’s paradise). The article refers to where their agents trained before their American and Canadian deployments, what they were taught, and how big the GRU was. Of even greater interest were the parts of the article that referred to their Atomic spies and the variety of traitors and turncoats they were able to attract.
Highlights of Soviet Espionage: 1949 – 1953 (People Today, 1953) Read More »
This is a report on the UFO and extraterrestrial experiences recalled by numerous men and women who attended the Second Annual Spacecraft Convention at the Giant Rock Airport near Palm Springs, California in 1955.
The Witnesses (People Today Magazine, 1955) Read More »
