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Hollywood Screenwriter Robert Lord Magazine Article | Screen Writing in 1935 Hollywood
1935, Hollywood History, Recent Articles, Rob Wagner's Script Magazine

The Story Factory
(Rob Wagner’s Script, 1935)

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Motion picture studios manufacture motion pictures. Motion pictures are shot from scripts. Scripts are developed from stories. Stories are written and sent to studios by undertakers, gamekeepers, chocolate dippers, steamfitters, pretzel-makers, judges, dentists, trapeze artists, carpet layers, parachute jumpers, nurses, tea tasters and amateur winders. It is a platitude that everyone owning a pencil fancies themselves a writer.

I Still Believe in Non-Violence' by Mahatma Gandhi (Collier's Magazine, 1943)
1943, Collier's Magazine, Mahatma Gandhi, Recent Articles

I Still Believe in Non-Violence’ by Mahatma Gandhi
(Collier’s Magazine, 1943)

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In the face of history’s most brutal war, as men the world over live by the rule of kill or be killed, India’s leader preaches a gospel of never lifting a weapon or pulling a trigger. Here he tells why:

The principle of non-violence means, in general terms, that men will deliberately shun all weapons of slaughter and the use of force of any kind whatsoever against their fellow men…Are we naive fools? Is non-violence a sort of dreamy wishful thinking that has never had and can never have any real success against the heavy odds of modern armies and the unlimited application of force and frightfulness?

The Imperial Wizard (Ken Magazine, 1938)
1938, Ken Magazine, Ku Klux Klan, Recent Articles

The Imperial Wizard
(Ken Magazine, 1938)

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Fat, shrewd-smiling, garrulous Old Doc Evans (Hiram Evans, 1881 – 1966) is still Emperor and Imperial Wizard, but he’s now apparently only fronting for a Big Boss who has some sensational new plans which have already begun to click. Once again the Klan is holding hands with politicians all over the country, but the hand-holding is being done under the table. The big drive begins in May

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Henry Dreyfuss (Coronet Magazine, 1947)
1947, Coronet Magazine, Design

Henry Dreyfuss
(Coronet Magazine, 1947)

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Attached is an article about the work of the American industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss (1904 – 1972):

At 43, Henry Dreyfuss is enormously successful, a fact which he makes every effort to conceal… In designing a typewriter, he measured the fingers of hundreds of typists. In creating a new chair for plane or train, he doesn’t settle for the fact that the chair simply seems comfortable. He hires an orthopedic surgeon to advise.

Industrial design was barely getting started when the 1929 Depression struck. America’s economic collapse may have meant calamity for millions of people, but for designers it spelled golden opportunity. Savage competition became the rule. To stay in business, a manufacturer had to give his products new utility, new eye-appeal…

Story Behind GONE WITH THE WIND by Margret Mitchell |Margret Mitchell bio | Margret Mitchell journalist career
1961, Coronet Magazine, Gone with the Wind Articles, Recent Articles

‘The Strange Story Behind GONE WITH THE WIND”
(Coronet Magazine, 1961)

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What was the real origin of Gone with the Wind? Margaret Mitchell (1900 – 1949) referred to a simple incident in her childhood. One afternoon, her mother took her on a buggy ride through the countryside around Atlanta, showing her all the once proud plantation homes that stood in crumbling shame from the Civil War, and others that were symbols of revival and progress. The impression never left her. Gone with the Wind, she said, was the story of Georgians who survived and those who didn’t.


In this article a book reviewer questions why anyone thought the novel was so great.

Eric Satie Goes After the Critics (Vanity Fair, 1921)
1921, Eric Satie Articles, Recent Articles, Vanity Fair Magazine

Eric Satie Goes After the Critics
(Vanity Fair, 1921)

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There is little doubt that the French Composer Eric Satie had wished that the bellyaching dilettantes who were charged with the task of writing music reviews for the Paris papers had spent more time in school in order that they might show greater erudition in their writings. However, Satie recognized that we can’t change the past and so he took his critics out to the woodshed with this column.

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1950s integration resistance | Anti-Integration Magazine Article
1959, African-American History, Pageant Magazine

The Old Southern View of Integration
(Pageant Magazine, 1959)

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In this 1959 article Alabama wordsmith Wyatt Blasingame did his level-headed best to explain the sluggish reasoning that made up the opinions of his friends and neighbors as to why racial integration of the nation’s schools was a poor idea. He observed that even the proudest Southerner could freely recognize that African-Americans were ill-served by the existing school system and that they were due for some sort of an upgrade – they simply wished it wouldn’t happen quite so quickly. The journalist spent a good deal of column space explaining that there existed among the Whites of Dixie a deep and abiding paranoia over interracial marriage.


Their line of thinking seems terribly alien to us, but, be assured, Southern white reasoning has come a long way since 1923…

Will Prohibition Create More Drug Users? (The Literary Digest, 1922)
1922, Prohibition History, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

Will Prohibition Create More Drug Users?
(The Literary Digest, 1922)

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It stands to reason that when one addictive drug disappears, the users will seek another drug to serve as a substitute – and although Wikipedia stated that drug addiction rose 44.6% throughout the course of Prohibition, this 1922 article reported that (at least for the first three years of the law) narcotics use remained at it’s pre-1919 levels.


Click here to read about the problems of American drug addicts in the Forties…

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German Reparations Payments 1921 | Supreme Council of the Allies on Reparation Payments 1921 | Reparations Commission Edicts
1921, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest, Versailles Treaty

‘Why Germany Must Pay”
(The Literary Digest, 1921)

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The war that Germany began and lost cost the Allies, according to a recent estimate, the stupendous total of $177,000,000,000. The Reparations Commission has named a principal sum of about $32,000,000,000 as the damages for which reparations by Germany is due under the Treaty of Versailles. The Supreme Council of the Allies, sitting at Paris in January, placed the amount to be paid by Germany at a present value of $21,000,000,000, which when paid with interest and in installments covering forty-two years, would amount to about $55,000,000,000.

Jesus in Psalm 22 | Jesus in the Old Testament | The Psalm on the cross by David H Roseberry
Faith, Recent Articles, The Book of Psalms

Jesus In The Old Testament
(Book of Psalms)

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For believers in Christ, Psalm 22 is the most curious of all of the 150 Psalms. It catches our imaginations not simply because our Savior quoted from it during His final hours, but because it makes a reference to the practice of crucifixion centuries before the torture was ever conceived. It also anticipates His thirst, the coming of the church and the distributing of His garments among His tormentors. We have highlighted these verses and illustrated the prophetic aspects of the psalm with quotes from a recent book on the topic.

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FDR Economic Failures | 1930s Economic Recovery Failings
1935, New Outlook Magazine, Recent Articles, The Great Depression

FDR’s Continuing Failures
(New Outlook, 1935)

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When FDR’s first term reached the half-way mark the editor of New Outlook, Francis Walton, sat down at his typewriter and summarized the new president’s record:

It is a record of action – mostly ill-considered. It is a record of astounding failures. It is a record of abandoned experiments smilingly excused and apologized for by their perpetrator even before they were undertaken… It is a record against which natural recovery is waging a super-human struggle to reach us.

The Fascisti (Current Opinion, 1921)
1921, Benito Mussolini, Current Opinion Magazine, Recent Articles

The Fascisti
(Current Opinion, 1921)

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A tight little essay that clarifies the force behind Italian fascism. This was an editorial penned by Dr. Frank Crane, a pastor who appeared regularly in the pages of CURRENT OPINION.

The Fascisti is a name given to a political party in Italy. Political parties, and indeed almost all organizations, as has often been pointed out, hold together and get their strength by hating something. The Fascisti hate the Bolshevists, Communists and the like.


Click here to read about those who resisted Mussolini.

Russia's Women Soldiers of W.W. I (Literary Digest, 1917)
1917, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest, Women (WWI)

Russia’s Women Soldiers of W.W. I
(Literary Digest, 1917)

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The attached news article from 1917 reported on the a Russian combat unit that consisted entirely of women soldiers called The Battalion of Death:

The courage of the Battalion of Death when the actual test came is the subject of many enthusiastic Petrograd dispatches. They behaved splendidly under fire, penetrating into a first-line trench of the Germans and brought back prisoners.

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The James Agee Review of It's a Wonderful Life (The Nation, 1947)
1947, It's A Wonderful Life, The Nation Magazine

The James Agee Review of It’s a Wonderful Life
(The Nation, 1947)

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James Agee, the film reviewer for The Nation (1942 – 1948), was charmed by the warmth of It’s a Wonderful Life
and believed that it was an admirable and well-crafted piece of film making; he nonetheless came away feeling like he’d been sold a bill of goods and rejected the movie primarily because he believed that films created in the Atomic Age should reflect the pessimism that created the era.

Inventor C Francis Jenkins Magazine Article 1921
1921, Recent Articles, Silent Movie History, The Literary Digest

He Made the Pictures Move
(The Literary Digest, 1921)

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Ten million people a day go to the movies in the United States, but how many of them know who made the first movie? The Noes have it. The man who made the first motion-picture, as we know it today, is C. Francis Jenkins (1867 – 1934). Many [actresses] who have not been ‘in pictures’ a month are better known.


C. Francis Jenkins was also one of the brainiacs who contributed his talent to the invention of television.

Down With Christian Dior and His ''New Look''! (Rob Wagner's Script, 1947)
1947, Recent Articles, Script Magazine, The New Look

Down With Christian Dior and His ”New Look”!
(Rob Wagner’s Script, 1947)

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The California fashion critic who penned this article believed that the fashions of Christian Dior stood firmly in opposition to the optimistic, Twentieth Century casual elegance of Claire McCardell (1905 – 1958) and Adrian (1903 – 1959). She could not bare Dior, with his vulgar penchant to spin

the feminine figure in the unconventional manner, trying to make her look good where she ain’t. He seeks the ballet dancer illusion – natural, rounded shoulders, too weak to support a struggling world…Her waist is pinched in an exaggerated indentation, the better to emphasize her padded hips…There are butterfly sleeves, box pockets, belled jackets, and barreled skirts, suggesting something like a Gibson girl, or whatever grandmother should have worn.


Click here to read a 1961 article about Jacqueline Kennedy’s influence on American fashion.

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