Small Fur Hats
(Quick Magazine, 1953)
Pictured herein are three fur hats by Sally Victor (1905 – 1977: Coty Award 1944) modeled by the actress Vanessa Brown (1928 – 1999).
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Vera Maxwell and Claire McCardell
(Quick Magazine, 1952)
From the Great Minds Think Alike Department came this small piece about two American sportswear designers, Claire McCardell and Vera Maxwell and their admirable approach in creating a light weather coat that served to both keep women warm in springtime gales, yet accommodate the full, billowing skirts that complemented their feminine forms (as well as the hip padding that accompanied many skirts of the Fifties).
Eisenhower Goes to Korea
(Quick Magazine, 1952)
After trouncing Adlai Stevenson in the November Election, President-Elect Eisenhower made good on the vow he had made earlier and packed his bag for a fact-finding trip to the stagnant front lines on the Korean Peninsula.
No abrupt change in Korea is likely to follow Ike’s visit. He doesn’t plan to negotiate with the Reds there. He is interested in training, equipping and preparing South Koreans to defend themselves… The South Korean’s morale is good. About 400,000 of them are mobilized.
Reds Pushed Back
(Quick Magazine, 1951)
The two-round, all-out offensive launched by the Chinese Army on April 22 exhausted itself and fizzled-out four weeks later after suffering heavy losses and gaining no ground whatever.
The Long Haul
(Quick Magazine, 1951)
By the Winter of 1951 another round of cease-fire and truce agreements between UN and Communist field commanders had once again come to naught – and America’s second Thanksgiving in Korea soon gave way to America’s second Christmas in Korea. This brief column lays out what went wrong in the last negotiations and American Secretary of State Dean Acheson declared that the U.S. would remain in Korea even after a peace agreement has been signed.
‘Political Killings in Korea”
(Quick Magazine, 1951)
South Korean firing squads had executed hundreds of men, women and children accused as Red sympathizers before President Rhee stopped the practice last week and set up a special board to review death sentences.
Stalin Dies and Power Changes Hands
(Quick Magazine, 1953)
Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953 generated a tremendous amount of uncertainty in the West, and a good deal of it is reflected in the attached column. A list of possible successors was provided; two of the names played an immediate roll in the governance of the Soviet Union: Georgy Malenkov (1902 – 1988) – who ruled for three days, until he was replaced by Nikolai Bulganin (1895 – 1975). Bulganin ran the shop until he, too, was replaced by Stalin’s right-hand man: Nikita Khrushchev
(1894 – 1971) – who was known in some corners as the hangman of the Ukraine.
Stalin’s Rule Summarized
(Quick Magazine, 1953)
Stalin’s final days, as recalled by his daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926 – 2011), were mired in paranoia; he had imprisoned his one physician (accusing him of being a British spy) and refused all medical attention – preferring to self-medicate with liberal doses of iodine. His hatred of the West had drastically intensified; he rambled on about the natural intelligence of peasants and was displeased that numerous members of his family wished to marry Jews.
(Click here to read another article about the 1953 death of Stalin.)
In Search of a Truce
(Quick Magazine, 1953)
During the final months of the Korean war, when it seemed that both sides were willing to make an arrangement that would bring the hostilities to an agreed upon end, the Chinese diplomats upped the ante
… the Red regime in Peiping [Beijing] wanted a Great Power conference on Korea’s future as a preface to new truce talks… Zhou Enlai, premier in Mao Tse Tung’s government, has secretly proposed tossing all disputes – the prisoner exchange issue as well as the political future of Korea – into a conference of 11 nations.
Watch an informative Christian documentary on Korea in 1953 (- its in color).
A Trivial Tail
(Quick Magazine, 1951)
More articles about Disney films can be read here – KEY WORDS: Mickey Mouse Trivia 1951,Walt Disney Trivia,Mickey Mouse’s Tail,evolution
Fur Jewelry and Wraps
(Quick Magazine, 1952)
Attached, you will find three articles on fur in Fifties fashion: one pertains to fur jewelry, the other two stoles, wraps and coats.
Mao and the Death of Stalin
(Quick Magazine, 1953)
Upon hearing that Stalin had died, the official Red Chinese radion spent hours talking of Stalin’s death, paid little heed to Malenkov’s elevation to Russia’s premiership.
Mao has considered himself second only to Stalin in communism.
The Basket Bags
(Quick Magazines, 1952)
They clogged the shelves of every thrift shop, church bazaar and Goodwill outlet throughout all of the 70s and 80s – and during that same period costume designers used them to signify how detached and estranged a feminine antagonist was in dozens of movies and TV productions. We are referring, of course, to the basket bags of the early fifties and their heavy presence in the bric-a-brac shoppes of yore only serve to testify as to how remarkably popular they were as fashion accessories in the land of the free and home of the brave. The attached article from 1952 is illustrated with six images of the various swells of old Palm Beach clinging proudly to their wicker trophies.
(We were delighted to see that basket bags enjoyed a small come-back in the fashion world during the summer of 2017.)
The Importance of Winning
(Quick Magazine, 1950)
Policy makers in Washington were divided into two groups during the early Cold War days: one held that Communist expansion was most dangerous in Asia while the other believed that Europe was the spot most deserving of attention. This short editorial by John Gunther (1901 – 1970) argued that Asia was the vulnerable zone and if Korea was lost to the Reds – the whole world would follow.
Pants in High Fashion
(Quick Magazine, 1953)
1953 was the year that designers from both Paris and New York included pants in their respective evening wear collections – even their homely little sister, Los Angeles – the new fashion capitol of sportswear, provided a pair of pants for dinner occasions.
Mickey Cohen in Hollywood
(Quick Magazine, 1949)
Illustrated with a photo of L.A. mobster Mickey Cohen and his wife, this short column from 1949 summarizes one of the many shake-down schemes that the thug would employ to blackmail Hollywood actors during their weaker moments.
Now the Men Can Sleep
(Quick Magazine, 1952)
From the same country that gave us Benny Hill came this remarkable invention that improved men’s lives immeasurably.