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1950s TEXAS | Texas Magazine Travel Article | Don Eddy Magazine Article
1952, Miscellaneous, The American Magazine

1950s Texas (American Magazine, 1952)

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Lost in wide-eyed wonder, this journalist reported all that he saw during his four-month journey through The Lone Star State, finding, to his astonishment, that everything those annoying men named Tex had told him throughout the years was absolutely true.

Don’t be offended if Texans fail to thank you for compliments about their state; they are weaned on a sublime conviction that everything in Texas is the biggest or best or both… Anything in Texas that isn’t the biggest or best is bound to be the smallest or the worst; there is no mediocrity.


Click here to read about the U.S. Border Patrol in Texas.

Mr. Kinsey's Report (Pathfinder Magazine, 1948)
1948, Miscellaneous, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles

Mr. Kinsey’s Report (Pathfinder Magazine, 1948)

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Although much of what Dr. Alfred Kinsey wrote concerning male sex patterns has been debunked in our own age, his conclusions were taken quite seriously in the late Forties and early Fifties. This slender column serves as a summary and review regarding his studies that were published in his 1948 book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948).


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The Era of Naval Aviation WW2 | Aircraft Carrier Engagements 1942
1942, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles, War at Sea

A New Kind of Naval Warfare (PM Tabloid, 1942)

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In the seven months since Pearl Harbor the aircraft carrier has replaced the battleship as the true capital ship of modern naval warfare. The carrier’s rise to power reached a crushing climax in the battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway – the two most decisive naval engagements of the war thus far. Opposing fleets only struck at each other with bomber and torpedo planes and never fired a shot except in self-defense against aircraft.

Dalton Trumbo Brings on the Storm(Rob Wagner's Script Magazine, 1946)
1946, Blacklisting, Recent Articles, Rob Wagner's Script Magazine

Dalton Trumbo Brings on the Storm
(Rob Wagner’s Script Magazine, 1946)

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Blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (1905 – 1976) did not do himself any favors when he wrote the attached essay outlining his sympathies for Stalin’s Soviet Union at the expense of the United States. A year later he would find himself in the hot-seat in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee (1938 – 1975) where his non-cooperation landed him eleven months in the hoosegow on contempt of Congress charges.


In 1887 the New York Times reviewed the first English edition of Das Kapital by Karl Marx, click here to read it…

Dalton Trumbo Brings on the Storm(Rob Wagner's Script Magazine, 1946)
1946, Blacklisting, Recent Articles, Rob Wagner's Script Magazine

Dalton Trumbo Brings on the Storm(Rob Wagner’s Script Magazine, 1946)

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Blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (1905 – 1976) did not do himself any favors when he wrote the attached essay outlining his sympathies for Stalin’s Soviet Union at the expense of the United States. A year later he would find himself in the hot-seat in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee (1938 – 1975) where his non-cooperation landed him eleven months in the hoosegow on contempt of Congress charges.


In 1887 the New York Times reviewed the first English edition of Das Kapital by Karl Marx, click here to read it…

'I'm No Communist'' (Photoplay Magazine, 1948)
1948, Blacklisting, Photoplay Magazine

‘I’m No Communist” (Photoplay Magazine, 1948)

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Months after his appearance as a spectator at the House Committee on Un-American Activities, actor Humphrey Bogart wrote this article for the editors of Photoplay Magazine addressing the topic of communist infiltration in the Hollywood film industry:

In the final analysis, this House Committee probe has had one salutary effect. It has cleared the air by indicating what a minute number of Commies there really are in the film industry. Though headlines may have screamed of the Red menace in the movies, all the wind and the fury actually proved that there’s been no Communism injected on American movie screens.

Removing God from the Public Schools | Creating Secular Public Schools 1945 | McCollum v. Board of Education
1945, Education, Newsweek, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

Kicking God Out of the Schools (Newsweek Magazine & PM Tabloid, 1945)

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A religion-in-the-schools trial, held last week in the Champaign, Illinois Circuit Court, will probably make history. The plaintiff was Mrs. Vashti McCollum, 32, pert, wide-eyed wife of a University of Illinois professor, demanding that the Champaign School Board discontinue a five-year program of religious instruction in school buildings, on the ground that the constitutional separation of church and state is jeopardized.


Posted herein was one of the first of many articles concerning what would come to known as the landmark Supreme Court case McCollum v. Board of Education (1948): the court decided in her favor.


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Orson Welles Magazine Article 1941 | Orson Welles in the 1940s
1941, Direction Magazine, Interviews: 1912 - 1960

The Wunderkind: Orson Welles (Direction Magazine, 1941)

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his brief notice is from a much admired American magazine containing many sweet words regarding the unstoppable Orson Welles (1915 – 1985) and his appearance in the Archibald McLeish (1892 – 1982) play, Panic (directed by John Houseman, 1902 — 1988).

The year 1941, Ano Domini, was another great year for the boy genius who seemed to effortlessly triumph with all his theatrical and film ventures. At the time this appeared in print, Welles was filming The Magnificent Ambersons, having recently pocketed an Oscar for his collaborative writing efforts in Citizen Cane. Highly accomplished and multi-married, no study of American entertainment is complete without mention of his name. The anonymous scribe who penned the attached article remarked:

No pretentiously shy Saroyan courtship of an audience about Welles! He really loves his relation to the public. He doesn’t flirt with it.

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