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The Ice was Thawing... (Pathfinder Magazine, 1949)
1949, African-American History, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles

The Ice was Thawing… (Pathfinder Magazine, 1949)

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Starting in the 1940s, small articles like the one here began appearing in magazines and newspapers across the nation – snippets indicating that the American people (ie. whites) were slowly catching on to the system of racial injustice they had inherited – and wondering aloud as to the tyranny of it all:

To 13 co-eds at Uppsala College, East Orange, N.J., democracy is something more than a worn text-book theory. It is a living, though thorny, reality. Shortly before school’s end, they formed one of the nation’s first interracial, interfaith college social sororities.


Another article about segregation’s end can be read here.

Was Jim Crow a Person | Jim Crow Origin | 1960s Jim Crow Empire Starts to Crumble
1963, African-American History, Recent Articles, Washington World

The Beginning of the End for Jim Crow (Washington World, 1963)

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By citing numerous examples of American jurisprudence spanning the early to mid-Fifties, this uncredited journalist illustrates that the era of Jim Crow was being disassembled brick-by-bigoted-brick:

All across the South, the segregation wall is cracking. The hammer is being wielded by the courts… The executive branch is also moving into the civil rights field.

Humphrey Bogart and his Feud with the Hollywood Press (Pageant Magazine, 1956)
1956, Hollywood History, Pageant Magazine

Humphrey Bogart and his Feud with the Hollywood Press (Pageant Magazine, 1956)

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There was a time, Humphrey Bogart maintains, when he saw all interviewers and tried to answer all questions put to him…

But I can’t take it anymore, I’ve had to cut the fan magazines off my list entirely. Just the sheer smell of them drives me crazy. They smell of milk. The interviewers themselves treat you like a two-year-old child with their will-Debbie-marry-Eddie and can-Lance-Fuller-live-without-a-wife kind of idiocy. You know the whole sorry groove of the thing.


You can read about David Niven HERE

The Crew of the Enola Gay Fifteen Years Later (Coronet Magazine, 1960)
1960, Coronet Magazine, Recent Articles, The Enola Gay

The Crew of the Enola Gay Fifteen Years Later (Coronet Magazine, 1960)

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The men of the Enola Gay were hand-picked experts, chosen for intelligence, emotional stability and discipline, qualities they have put to good use in their post-war careers. Four remained in the service (one died in 1953) and the others are all successful in their business carees. They earn above-average salaries, all but one are married and they have 26 children among them. None of them has been to Japan since the war, and few have met since separation.

The Bombers Speak (Coronet Magazine, 1960)
1960, Coronet Magazine, The Enola Gay

The Bombers Speak (Coronet Magazine, 1960)

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Appearing in a 1960 issue of Coronet Magazine was this piece that revealed the assorted introspective perceptions of the crew of the Enola Gay.


In the fifteen years that had past since the dropping of the Atomic bomb these are the personal thoughts that were produced after years of sober reflection concerning their part in one of the preeminent events of the last century:

After 15 years the scene over Hiroshima is still sharp and clear to them, and though they disagree on details, they are unanimous on the point of whether they’d do the same things again.

Luftangriffe auf München 1942 | Munich Bombed 1942
1942, German Home Front, PM Tabloid

RAF Bombs Munich (PM Tabloid, 1942)

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Throughout the course of the Second World War, the city of Munich was bombed seventy-four times by both the Royal Air Force as well as the U.S. Army Air Corps. The attached article gives an account of the third of these attacks.

Giant four-motored planes flew in over their targets so low that they could clearly see the Brown House and the Beer Hall where Hitler organized his 1923 putsch… The citizens of Munich will, no doubt, be thinking of their Fuehrer today as they survey the bombed-out buildings and piles of rubble in the streets where Hitler first harangued them about his political ideas.

Walt Disney's Artists and the Making of 'Bambi' (Collier's Magazine, 1942)
1942, Collier's Magazine, Recent Articles, Walt Disney

Walt Disney’s Artists and the Making of ‘Bambi’ (Collier’s Magazine, 1942)

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For the production of Snow White (1938), the Disney artists had gone to great lengths in order to properly portray the manner in which young women move; these efforts were rewarded at the box-office to such a high degree that the same devotion was applied to the study of deer anatomy in their efforts to create Bambi (1942).

We had to remember, that Disney has a ruthless fidelity to the physical scene, to the truth of nature, even when he may seem to be distorting nature.

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