47 Magazine

Articles from 47 Magazine

The Cold War and Public Opinion
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

This article was written by Gallup Poll Editor William Lydgate who compared various opinion surveys that were taken shortly after the close of W.W. II with the ones that were created just one year later.

The 1945 poll revealed that the American public generally looked forward to friendly relations with the Soviet Union, shared remarkably high hopes for world peace and believed deeply that the United Nations would be responsible for the creation of a better world. However, the 1946 poll measured an enormous drop in this sunny disposition.

Robert Capa: A Life
(’47 Magazine)

This article was written by John Hersey (1914 – 1993); it was written as a review of Slightly Out of Focus, the memoir by the most famous of World War II combat photographers, Robert Capa (né Andre Friedmann: 1913 – 1954). A fun and informative read, you will learn how the man came to be a photographer, how he acquired his nom de guerre, his work during the Spanish Civil War and the credibility that quickly followed.

Click here to read what General James Gavin remembered about photographer Robert Capa.

Fast Facts About Hollywood Silent Movies
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

A really quick, informative read that will let you know a whole bunch about the earliest days of Hollywood silent film production:

• Silent film production companies averaged three movies per week.

• A good salary for an early Hollywood silent film executive was $50.00 per week

• Silent film extras were paid 1.50 per day.

• There were no stunt doubles.

• The average silent film director was paid $150.00 per week.

• A big-budget production was one that cost $500.00.

• Silent film directors would talk continuously during shooting.

– and much more.

Click here to read articles about Marilyn Monroe.

BLOODBATH
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

Written some eighteen years after the event, here is a reminiscence of the worst day in Prohibition history: the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.

William Saroyan’s Reminiscence ofCombat Photographer Robert Capa
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

Dramatist and author William Saroyan (1908 – 1981) treated the readers of ’47 MAGAZINE with a number of his anecdotes concerning his close wartime friendship with W.W. II photographer Robert Capa.

They all involve alcohol.

Click here to read an anecdote about Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War.

William Saroyan’s Reminiscence ofCombat Photographer Robert Capa
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

Dramatist and author William Saroyan (1908 – 1981) treated the readers of ’47 MAGAZINE with a number of his anecdotes concerning his close wartime friendship with W.W. II photographer Robert Capa.

They all involve alcohol.

Click here to read an anecdote about Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War.

William Saroyan’s Reminiscence ofCombat Photographer Robert Capa
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

Dramatist and author William Saroyan (1908 – 1981) treated the readers of ’47 MAGAZINE with a number of his anecdotes concerning his close wartime friendship with W.W. II photographer Robert Capa.

They all involve alcohol.

Click here to read an anecdote about Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War.

William Saroyan’s Reminiscence ofCombat Photographer Robert Capa
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

Dramatist and author William Saroyan (1908 – 1981) treated the readers of ’47 MAGAZINE with a number of his anecdotes concerning his close wartime friendship with W.W. II photographer Robert Capa.

They all involve alcohol.

Click here to read an anecdote about Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War.

William Saroyan’s Reminiscence ofCombat Photographer Robert Capa
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

Dramatist and author William Saroyan (1908 – 1981) treated the readers of ’47 MAGAZINE with a number of his anecdotes concerning his close wartime friendship with W.W. II photographer Robert Capa.

They all involve alcohol.

Click here to read an anecdote about Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War.

William Saroyan’s Reminiscence ofCombat Photographer Robert Capa
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

Dramatist and author William Saroyan (1908 – 1981) treated the readers of ’47 MAGAZINE with a number of his anecdotes concerning his close wartime friendship with W.W. II photographer Robert Capa.

They all involve alcohol.

Click here to read an anecdote about Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War.

The Women of Reginald Marsh
(’47 Magazine)

Against the backdrop of a metropolis, a painter finds exultation in the vigorous beauty of the common girl.

’47 Magazine
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

’47 Magazine was established in March of 1947 and it was their intention to change their name with the calendar year, year by year and on through the succeeding decades. We have in our vast periodical library a few copies of ’48 Magazine – but that is as far as they got before they were voted off the island.

It was a terrific magazine – and many of the names on their board of directors are recognized as some of the best literary minds that America had produced in the mid-Twentieth Century. But, as you’ll see when you read the attached manifesto (they called it a Statement of Intent, but I think that they really wanted to call it was a manifesto) they deeply desired to create an arts magazine that was entirely free of accountants, advertisers, lawyers, agents and, ultimately, profits; so they weren’t around very long.

A Grateful Immigrant Speaks
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

An article by Atomic Age immigrant Juanita Wegner testifying as to her undying gratitude that she should be permitted to live in a nation with so many freedoms. Having spent much of her life on the run from the Fascists of Austria, Italy and Argentina, Wegner stated:

For all my life I’ve wanted to be an American. I’ve dreamed about it, studied, worked for it…I’ve been an American for only a few days. But if I could have one wish it would be to go up to everybody I meet and say: ‘Aren’t we lucky to have this chance! Let’s never forget it.’

Irony at the Command and General Staff School
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

This is a humorous World War II story about the heroics of Captain Charles W. Davis (1917 – 1991), former resident of Guadalcanal, and his experiences with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Her Life Since Leaving the White House
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

Attached is a 1947 article that reported on the post-FDR life of The Widow Roosevelt since assuming the position of the United States delegate to the newly established United Nations:

Mrs Roosevelt’s performance during the first session of the U.N. General Assembly in London during the winter of 1946 surprised and pleased even those who had once been her husband’s most bitter foes.

Suffering A W.W. II Head Wound
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

When Joe Martin received a shrapnel wound to the head it affected that region of his brain that processes language. He spent a good deal of time in military hospitals trying to regain his lost ability to communicate, as he articulated clearly in the attached article:

He then held up a pencil in front of me and asked, ‘Joe, what is this?’

I heard myself reply, ‘A paddle’.

Son of ”Fast Facts”
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

To be sure, the motion pictures that Hollywood produced during the late teens were very self-conscious, but they were beginning to develop smartness…
Los Angeles and its environs were crowded with new motion picture companies. The American Film Company, the Vitagraph Company, the Universal Company Christie Comedies and Selig found competitors springing up like weeds after rain: the demand for flickers was enjoying its first boom.

General James Gavin Remembered Robert Capa
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

Here is a W.W. II reminiscence of combat photographer Robert Capa (1913 – 1954) by the legendary airborne infantry commander General James Gavin. The remarks were addressed to the editors of ’47 Magazine in response to an article on Capa that had appeared earlier in the magazine.