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The Look for Autumn (Quick Magazine, 1952)
1950s Fashion, 1952, Quick Magazine

The Look for Autumn
(Quick Magazine, 1952)

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The ‘costume look’ has developed into a strong fashion idea for fall and winter. The news is in the mis-mated fabrics and colors used in this year’s go-togethers. Highly-textured (and often noisily patterned) coats and jackets are sold frankly as suits with solid color dresses or skirts… Mismatched colors as well as mixed fabrics were used by Vera Maxwell in her coat and dress team [pictured]… Ben Zuckerman offered another example of fashion’s new doubling-up with black hip-length coat over a two-piece red wool jersey dress [pictured].

Lace (Quick Magazine, 1953)
1950s Fashion, 1953, Quick Magazine

Lace
(Quick Magazine, 1953)

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Less dependent on the whims of fashion than almost any other fabric, lace blooms perennially in designers’ collections. Because it has an ageless quality, which makes it look well on women of any age, its uses are varied. This season it is treated in new ways by some of the top couturiers. It is embroidered, used as applique, beaded or scattered with sequins… There is variety in lace itself; it may be gossamer sheer or rich and handsome in design. But whatever its form, it is a universal fashion favorite [for now].

1950 College Fashion | Spring 1950 Mode
1950, 1950s Fashion, The Diamondback

The College Fashion Forecast for the Spring of 1950
(The Diamondback, 1950)

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A few words that anticipated fashion’s offerings for the Spring of 1950:

This Spring is predicted to bring a completely new point of view to the clothes-conscious American woman… Although the boyish figure of the 20s will not return as pronounced, the trend seems to be toward narrow shoulders with heavy exaggerated lines above the waist and slimness below.

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Dashiel Hammett Fights the Fascists (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, Recent Articles, Twentieth Century Writers, Yank Magazine

Dashiel Hammett Fights the Fascists
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

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Dashiel Hammett (1894 – 1961) had a pretty swell resume by the time World War Two came along. He had a number of celebrated novels and short stories published as well as a few well-paying gigs writing in Hollywood. It was during this period, in the Thirties, that he had created some of the wonderful characters that are still remembered to this day, such as Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon) and Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man). During the war, it was rare but not unheard of, for an older man with such accomplishments to enlist in the army -and that is just what he did. This one page article clearly spells out Hammett’s period serving on an Alaskan army base; his slow climb from Buck Private to Sergeant; his difficulty with officers and the enjoyment of being anonymous.

Accompanying the article is a black and white image of the writer wearing Uncle Sam’s olive drab, herringbone twill -rather than the tell-tale tweed he was so often photographed wearing.

Mary Pickford: An Appreciation (Motion Picture Magazine, 1916)
1916, Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford, Motion Picture Magazine, Recent Articles

Mary Pickford: An Appreciation
(Motion Picture Magazine, 1916)

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I haven’t a clue as to whether California lawyers had the Restraining Order as one of the tools in their arsenal back in 1916; but if they had, Mary Pickford might have chosen to deploy just such a legal measure in order to defend herself from this obsessed fan who wrote the following essay for the editors of MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE:

She is adorably feminine, from her curls to her toes. In Tessstyle=border:none, Caprice, the forlorn waif of the desert island in Hearts Adrift, she is feminine in everything she does. She can storm, but she storms like a warm-hearted, human woman, not a virago; she can coquettestyle=border:none, but it is never the cold blooded type of flirting; Mary Pickford couldn’t be cold blooded if she tried. Men of all ages, women of all types, children of both sexes respond to this wonderful little girl in a manner no other star is able to arouse. They are all good and have done some wonderful work, but Mary is child, sweetheart and friend of the whole world, and no one can ever take her place in our hearts.


Click here to read a 1923 comparison between Norma Talmadge and Mary Pickford.

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Son of ''Fast Facts'' ('47 Magazine, 1947)
1947, 47 Magazine, Silent Movie History

Son of ”Fast Facts”
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

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To be sure, the motion pictures that Hollywood produced during the late teens were very self-conscious, but they were beginning to develop smartness…
Los Angeles and its environs were crowded with new motion picture companies. The American Film Company, the Vitagraph Company, the Universal Company Christie Comedies and Selig found competitors springing up like weeds after rain: the demand for flickers was enjoying its first boom.

The First Anniversary of Chateau-Thierry (The Stars and Stripes, 1919)
1919, Chateau Thierry, The Stars and Stripes

The First Anniversary of Chateau-Thierry
(The Stars and Stripes, 1919)

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Monday, June 2 [1919], was a holiday in the 2nd Division in the bridgehead on the Rhine. The anniversary of the battle of Chateau-Thierry was observed. It is just a year ago that infantry and Marines of the 2nd Division were thrown against the Boche on the Paris-Metz road near Chateau-Thierry, and from that moment on the Americans were in continual fighting until November 11.

The Battle of Chateau-Thierry (Stars and Stripes, 1918)
1918, Chateau Thierry, Recent Articles, The Stars and Stripes

The Battle of Chateau-Thierry
(Stars and Stripes, 1918)

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The American performance at the battle of Chateau-Thierry proved to General Foche that the Americans had the necessary stuff, and it was widely recognized that the Doughboys played the key roll in keeping the Germans out of Paris.


The attached STARS AND STRIPES article is extremely detailed as to the individual units (both French and American) that participated in rolling back the Germans along the Marne.

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German Weapons in Winter (Yank Magazine, 1943)
1943, Recent Articles, Weapons and Inventions, Yank Magazine

German Weapons in Winter
(Yank Magazine, 1943)

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The following notes, based on directions issued in 1943 by the German Army High Command, regarding the use and proper care of German infantry weaponsstyle=border:none during winter campaigns. The instructions in question concern:


• German Luger & Walther P38 pistols,


• the Gewehr 41 rifle, Gewehr 98,


• M.G. 34 light machine gun and the,


• M.G. 42 heavy machine guns.


The article is accompanied by illustrations of the snow sleds used to transport the German machine guns.


Click here to read about the mobile pill boxes of the Nazi army.

The Fashion Group (Collier's Magazine, 1948)
1940s Fashion, 1948, Collier's Magazine, Recent Articles

The Fashion Group
(Collier’s Magazine, 1948)

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At the time this article appeared on the pages of COLLIER’S MAGAZINE, the Fashion Group was already over twenty years old and in need of more office space.


Established in 1928 by the crowned-heads of the American fashion industry, it was decided that the dominate fashionistas ‘needed a forum, a stage, or a force to express and enhance a widening awareness of the American fashion business and of women’s roles in that business. This article points out that there were present in that room on that historic day a smattering of women who toiled in the vineyards as fashion journalists and collectively it was understood that the two groups very much relied upon each other.
The Fashion Group was established in order to:

judge trends by watching sales figures, which indicate which fashions are on the wane and which are gaining favor. They travel around to see what we do, and therefore, what we need.

Today, the Fashion Group has offices in every major American city as well as branches in the fashion capitols of Europe, South America and Asia.

The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, Atomic Bombs, Recent Articles, Yank Magazine

The Making of the Atomic Bomb
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

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The Manhattan Project was the code name given to the allied effort to develop the Atomic Bomb during World War Two. The research and development spanned the years 1942 through 1946 and the participating nations behind the effort were the Unites States, Great Britain and Canada. Within the United States, there were as many as three locations where the Manhattan Project was carried out however this article concerns the goings-on at the uranium-enrichment facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The article presents the point of view of your basic PFC on the base; how he had to maintain the necessary secrecy, what was it like living among such a plethora of pointy-headed slide-rule jockeys and how grateful they were to be living the comfortable life, while so many other draftees fared so poorly.

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1930 US Immigration Info | Immigration Records from the 1930 U.S. Census
1932, Immigration History, Pathfinder Magazine

The Foreign-Born Population in the Early ’30s
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1932)

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A brief notice from the 1930 Census reporting on that percentage of the United States population that was born on foreign shores. Within the confines of this small paragraph some details were provided as to how many arrived prior to 1900, how many between 1901 and 1910; 1911 and 1919; 1920 and 1930. Additional information appears concerning the assorted racial make-up of these new American and how many of them originated from both quota and non-quota nations.

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Letter from France (Tricolor Magazine, 1944)
1944, Recent Articles, Tricolor Magazine, World War Two

Letter from France
(Tricolor Magazine, 1944)

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A British staff officer who was an eyewitness to the Allied breakout from the Normandy hedgerows compiled all the assorted questions that friends and family had written to him in their respective letters and answered them in a public format published in TRICOLOR MAGAZINE:

What do you feel when you see people dead?

Just an urgent desire to get by quickly and a feeling of revulsion which is greater or less according to the length of time the body has been dead… There is no difference in appearance between decomposing men and decomposing animals and the same stench comes from both.

1922, Charlie Chaplin Articles, Current Opinion Magazine, Recent Articles

Charlie Chaplin Wanted to be Taken Seriously
(Current Opinion, 1922)

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We have all seen it many times before: the well-loved, widely accepted comedian who decides that being adored by the masses is simply not enough. For too many comic talents, sadly, there comes a time when they slip on one banana peel too many and it occurs to them that they want the world to appreciate them for their ability to think. Comics who fill this description might be Al Frankin, Woody Allen or Steve Martin.


This article tries to understand why Chaplin wanted to play a tragic part in a 1921 London stage adaptation of William Thackeray’s ‘Vanity Fair’.
We have seen such behavior in comics many times before, they hadn’t.

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