Articles from 1952
Ewing Krainin (1912 – 2004) was a popular photographer in his day, and the darling of many a magazine editor. His most revered image was the Life picture of the scantily clad fashion model Chili Williams (1921 – 2003) – an image that is recalled and explained in the opening paragraphs of this article.
Using numerous unkind pejoratives throughout his article, this journalist interviewed plenty of farmers and politicians who had many thoughts and observations concerning this question:
“What to do with the thousands of Mexican farm laborers who illegally enter the U.S. each year to harvest South Texas crops.”
Eleanor Metheny (1908 – 1982) enjoyed a full life in academia, spanning over forty years. Mid-way through her career she wrote the attached article explaining to one and all why she found teaching such a fulfillment.
If you thought progressive education was a scourge that existed only in the digital age – you’d be wrong; the apostles of progressive education have simply been able to gain traction in our era where leftism has been enjoying greater momentum. Progressive education policies, intent on preserving the student’s “sense of self” over their genuine education, have been around for decades – and the attached article seems no different from much of the criticism that is leveled at them today.
“Critics of progressive education insist teachers don’t place enough emphasis on achievement in their fear of harming the child’s personality.”
“For three consecutive years, 1946 through 1948, Betty Grable was the highest salaried woman in the world. For the past ten years she has never left the list of the nation’s ten biggest box office attractions. She also gets more fan mail (from 3,000 to 10,000 letters a week) than any other star in the motion picture industry. Oddly enough, most of it comes from women hungering for the Betty Grable beauty secrets.”
The townsfolk of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, found the seasonal presence of the Spanish-speaking cherry pickers quite irksome until a sincere effort was made by local clergy to bring the two groups together.
Having learned a good deal from two world wars concerning the fragile nature of soldiers and Marines who suffered from battle fatigue, the U.S. Army Medical Department sent hastily trained psychiatrists to the forward positions during the Korean War in order to better serve these men – and get them back to battle. The Atomic Age name for battle fatigue is neurotic psychiatric casualty
With the bad old days that spanned that period between October, 1929 through August, 1945 seen only in the rear view mirror, many Americans began to enjoy the high life that came with the booming post-war economy – a buying spree that wouldn’t slow until the mid Seventies. In the midst of so much plenty American magazines began to run articles about some of the folks who weren’t partaking in all the fun, and this article is a fine example – it is about the 2,000,000 white people who toiled in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley. Thirteen years later they would be outsourced by a labor pool willing to work for even less money.
… They get no unemployment insurance. They get no social security benefits. The law does not, in the main, protect them.
Click here to read about the horrendous living conditions of 1940s migrant workers…
Click here to read about the tremendous hardships that fell upon the fertile San Joaquin Valley in 1937…
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.
