Articles from Pic Magazine
Published four months after the above article, here is a similar, well-illustrated piece that lists the names of the photographers and reporters who were killed – and the younger breed of writers and lens-men who took their places.
More Reports on the War Reporters (Pic Magazine, 1944) Read More »
Among all the many lovelies who resided in the Hollywood of 1940, the wide-awake editors of PIC MAGAZINE singled-out Lucille Ball (1911 – 1989) as the one to watch:
Barring accidents, Lucille Ball tomorrow will occupy the spot now disputed by Carol Lombard, Joan Crawford and Ginger Rogers – as First Lady of Hollywood. Lucille deserves to get it and she has what it takes to get there. The red-headed ex-chorus girl has talent, ability looks, personality and willingness to take every punishment on her way up.
Lucille Ball Gets Noticed (Pic Magazine, 1940) Read More »
Icebergs are disappearing from Canada’s Atlantic coast; forests are growing in the sub-Arctic of the east and air bases have been established on Baffin Island.
The Atlantic Heats Up (Pic Magazine, 1955) Read More »
It matters not that we’re fighting a war on, under and over all the seas and on half the continents of the earth. Uncle Sam is determined that there shall be be no new army of ‘forgotten men’ to make a mockery of all the things for which we are now fighting…The Farm Security Administration [has been] detailed to look out for migratory defense workers – the kind who can’t find a place to live in overcrowded war-boom towns
Click here to read about the effects that the Great Depression had on the clothes we wore…
Aid From The Farm Service Administration (Pic Magazine, 1942) Read More »
The fact that more boy babies are born during and immediately after major wars is a phenomenon that was discovered by the underpaid statisticians employed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1942. The articles that are attached are but two of what was probably four hundred articles that appeared on the topic that year. The writers and thinkers of the digital age continue studying this actuality – among them is the gang over at Psychology Today who wrote:
Scientists have known for a long time that more boys than usual are born during and after major wars. The phenomenon was first noticed in 1954 with regard to white children born during World War II in the United States. It has since been replicated for most of the belligerent nations in both World Wars. The phenomenon has been dubbed the ‘returning soldier effect.’ There is no doubt that the phenomenon is real, but nobody has been able to explain it. Why are soldiers who return from wars more likely to father sons than other men?
More Boys Are Born During War (Yank & Pic Magazines, 1945) Read More »
All thanks to the efforts of a private donor, three lounges were built explicitly for the women volunteers of the WACs and WAVES. Furnished with vanities, hair dryers, magazines and ping-pong tables; they must have been a big hit – they look very much like the sets of a Fred Astaire movie.
Lounges for WAACs and WAVES (Pic Magazine, 1943) Read More »
This article appeared in an issue Click Magazine that was deliberately edited to aid those young men who had been wearing uniforms for the past few years and, subsequently, had no knowledge whatever of tailoring or of fabric that was not government issued. It consists of a handy guide for the aspiring dandy showing just how a gentleman’s suit should fit if it is to be properly worn.
The Dos and Don’t in Men’s Suiting of the Forties (Pic Magazine, 1945) Read More »
Call it what you will – socialized medicine, the public largess or the community chest, it makes no difference, but let it be known that in the late Thirties the elders who presided over Shelby County, Tennessee, recognized that some measure of TLC was required in their dominion, and so they bought a big bus and stuffed it full of 12 nurses and a physician. The leading African-American doctors in the area were also instrumental in the creation of this behemoth – which was created to contain syphilis in Shelby County.
A Clinic On The Move (Pic Magazine, 1941) Read More »
Dan Burley (1907 – 1962) was a much admired man of his day; noted editor and columnist who served at a number of respected African-American newspapers and magazines, a Boogie Woogie pianist, sports writer covering the Negro League and he was to Jive what Samuel Johnson was to English – a lexicographer. This PIC MAGAZINE profile centers primarily on his efforts to translate famous English lines into Jive talk and chronicle the slanguage .
More about the African-American press corps can be read HERE.
Dan Burley, Editor (Pic Magazine, 1943) Read More »
The Story of G.I. Joe
‘The Story of GI Joe” (Pic Magazine, 1945) Read More »
