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Adapting Hebrew for the Modern Age (Coronet Magazine, 1960)
1960, Coronet Magazine, Jews in the 20th Century

Adapting Hebrew for the Modern Age
(Coronet Magazine, 1960)

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A fascinating read about how the previously embalmed language of Hebrew had been dusted off and born anew for the modern era. Hebrew in 1948 (the year that the U.N. recognized Israel as a nation) was largely seen as an inaccessible tongue known only to scholars – had existed for the past 4,000 years with a scant 8,000 words: this would now change as the language was permitted to live and grow once more. Today it is believed that Hebrew has between 60,000 and 150,000 words and that there are as many as 9 million people who speak the language worldwide.

The Oscars: Hollywoods Self-Adoration Fest (Stage Magazine, 1938)
1938, Hollywood History, Stage Magazine

The Oscars: Hollywoods Self-Adoration Fest
(Stage Magazine, 1938)

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A tongue-in-cheek magazine article from 1938 about The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and their annual gala devoted to over-confidence, The Oscars. Written eleven years after the very first Academy Award ceremony, and published in a magazine that catered to New York theater lovers, the article was penned by an unidentified correspondent who was not very impressed by the whole affair but managed to present a thorough history of the award nonetheless.


Director Frank Capra was awarded his third trophy at the 1938 Oscars…

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Oscars for 1938 (Pathfinder Magazine, 1939)
1939, Hollywood History, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles

Oscars for 1938
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1939)

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Attached is short report listing some of the highlights of the 11th Academy Awards ceremony that was held on February 23, 1939 in downtown Los Angeles:


• Director Frank Capra received his third Best Director statue for You Can’t Take It with You
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• Walt Disney was awarded an Oscar for the best animated short film, Ferdinand The Bull – in addition to a special award for his innovative work on
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.


• The Best Screenplay Oscar went to Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw for his efforts on Pygmalion.



An amusing, if blasphemous, article about the 1938 Oscars can be read here…

Lucille Ball Gets Noticed (Pic Magazine, 1940)
1940, Hollywood History, Pic Magazine

Lucille Ball Gets Noticed
(Pic Magazine, 1940)

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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.


You can click here to read about I Love Lucy here

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1952, Early Television, Recent Articles, The American Magazine

The Cuban and the Redhead
(The American Magazine, 1952)

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We didn’t become addicts of I Love Lucy deliberately; it was a habit that engulfed our whole family gradually. the captivating thing about Lucy and Ricky is, we think, the fact that they hold a mirror up to every married couple in America. Not a regulation mirror that reflects truth, nor a magic mirror that portrays fantasy. But a Coney Island mirror that distorts, exaggerates and makes vastly amusing every little incident, foible and idiosyncrasy of married life.

WWII Atomic Bomb Research | WWII Atomic Bomb Production
1945, Atomic Bombs, Yank Magazine

How The Atomic Bomb Was Developed
(Yank, 1945)

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The story behind the atomic bomb is a detective story with no Sherlock Holmes for a hero. The number of scientists who took part in the search was without parallel…The dramatic story begins with Dr. Lise Meitner (1878 – 1968), a woman scientist and director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. In 1938 Dr. Meitner is bombarding uranium atoms with neutrons and then submitting the uranium to chemical analysis. To her amazement…


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Hiroshima Two Years Later (Collier's Magazine, 1947)
1947, Atomic Bombs, Collier's Magazine

Hiroshima Two Years Later
(Collier’s Magazine, 1947)

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The Collier’s article attached herein, The Atom Bomb’s Invisible Offspring does not simply track the radioactive illnesses and contamination generated as a result of the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also discusses the nuclear testings at Bikini and Alamogordo, New Mexico. Attention is paid to how the devastated people as well as all the assorted flora and fauna in the targeted regions.

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The Lady was a Spy (Coronet Magazine, 1954)
1954, Coronet Magazine, Recent Articles, Women (WWII)

The Lady was a Spy
(Coronet Magazine, 1954)

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During World War II many women played roles as daring and courageous as were required of any man. This is the true story of one such woman, who gambled her life to help the Allies win the final victory in Europe.

…I began my mission in wartime France as a British secret agent. Colonel Maurice Buckmaster had told me what my assignment was:

You will parachute into France with a wireless operator and a demolition specialist. The drop will be 40 miles from Le Mans, where Rommel’s army is concentrated…


Click here to read about the women who spied for the Nazis during the Second World War.

The Mid-Century Look in Fashion (Pathfinder Magazine, 1950)
1950, 1950s Fashion, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles

The Mid-Century Look in Fashion
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1950)

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Hair as short as a boy’s and feathered into wisps about the face… Accented waist… Long slim look… Spread-eagle effect about the shoulders obtained by deep armholes, bloused backs, big collars or little capes… Mostly narrow skirts but still plenty of full ones.


– so begins the attached two page Spring fashion review that was torn from the Women’s Page of the January 25, 1950 issue of Pathfinder Magazine. Judging from the six photographs that illustrate the column, Christian Dior continued call the tunes that other fashion designers had to dance to if they expected to attract a following. The New York designers whose efforts were singled out for praise were Lilly Daché, Hattie Carnegie, Ben Reig, Ceil Chapman and Vera Jacobs of Capri Originals.


More about 1950s hairstyles can be read here…

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1940s China Articles | ww2 China History
1943, Sino-Japanese Wars, Yank Magazine

Nationalist Chinese Trained by U.S. Army
(Yank Magazine, 1943)

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This article will come as a surprise to the historical revisionists who run the Chiang Kai-Schek memorial in Taipei where U.S. involvement in W.W. II is oddly remembered only as having been the nation that sold oil to the Japanese. It is a well-illustrated Yank Magazine article filed from India regarding the military training of Chinese infantry under the watchful eye of General Joe Stilwell’s (1883 – 1946) American drill instructors.

The Lynching of African-Americans in France (NY Times, 1921)
1921, African-Americans, Recent Articles, The New York Times

The Lynching of African-Americans in France
(NY Times, 1921)

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This disturbing article from 1921 reported on a series of lynchings that took place between the years 1917 through 1919 by U.S. Army personnel serving in France during the First World War. The journalist quoted witness after witness who appeared before the Senate Committee regarding the lynchings they had seen:

Altogether…I saw ten Negroes and two white men hanged at Is-Sur-Tille. Twenty-eight other members of my command also witnessed these hangings and if necessary, I can produce them.


Read about racism in the U.S. Army of W.W. I

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Pierre Laval Colluded with the Nazi Occupiers | France Under Premiere Pierre Laval
1942, France, Newsweek

Laval’s France
(Newsweek Magazine, 1942)

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An article from the Spring of 1942 concerning the efforts of Premiere Laval to fool the French citizenry into loving their Nazi occupiers and hating the Allies.

Laval’s handicaps in reconciling the nation to the ‘new order’ are his personal unpopularity – careful observers estimate that 90 to 95 percent of the population spurn his policies – and the determination of the Nazis to stamp out resistance with terrorism.

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