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Category: Technology, 1940s
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 16, 2021 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Body, Hygiene, Advertising, Surrealism, 1940s
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 29, 2021 -
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Category: Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1940s
Posted By: Alex - Sun Nov 28, 2021 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Books, 1940s
Wally Cox (b.1924 d.1973) He started in nightclubs in 1948 doing this act; Monologs done in a heavy NYC accent followed by a song done in a high breaking voice. He was on early TV as Mr. Peepers school principle 1952-1955. A main stay of TV & movies throughout the 60s. He was the voice of Underdog cartoon and one of the Hollywood Squares game show. And a life long friend of Marlon Brando.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 04, 2021 -
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Category: Humor, 1940s
Nancy Magee, the 1948 Chicken of Tomorrow Queen
"Miss Joan Walters of Rogers, Ark., 18-year-old brunette beauty, was crowned Chicken-of-Tomorrow Queen here last Friday night in a ceremony at the University of Arkansas field house."--The Madison County Record - Apr 12, 1951
"Miss Joan Walters of Rogers, Ark., was recently named National Chicken-of-Tomorrow Queen." Image source: Arkansas Land and Life - Spring/Summer 2004
San Bernardino County Sun - Apr 8, 1951
Orlando Evening Star - May 25, 1951
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 02, 2021 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Farming, 1940s, 1950s
Sydney Morning Herald - May 1, 1949
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 22, 2021 -
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Category: Games, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1940s
Petoskey News Review - Dec 8, 1947
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 17, 2021 -
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Category: Drugs, Music, 1940s
The Images of Modern Evil series, painted between 1943 and 1948, offers a probing and powerful insight into the schismatic socio-political climate of World War II and its aftermath. Though neither critically nor popularly successful at the time, the series proved formative in Tucker’s practice as a distillation of humanist, psychological and mythological ideas and as a vehicle for specific motifs and narratives that have endured within his art.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 15, 2021 -
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Category: Art, Evil, 1940s
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 28, 2021 -
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Category: Medicine, Smoking and Tobacco, 1940s
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