Liberating Paris Rejoicing Crowd Welcomes Yanks
Ernie Pyle recounts the first hours after Paris freedom. He and fellow reporters ride through jubilant streets as crowds kiss, cheer, and shower flowers on American troops and jeeps. Parisians, in festive dress, fill avenues while German danger looms.
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Paris
Stalingrad
Rambouillet
Second Armored
Helen Cardon
America
Cardon
George Swikart
New York City
Edgar
Peter
Paris Girls Have Beauty and Imagination
Paris dazzles with vibrant fashion and bold colors as summer Parisian streets fill with holiday crowds. A soldier notes the thrill of seeing bright clothes again amid the city’s lively mood, while the piece acknowledges both beauty and rough edges in the urban scene.
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Paris
Hank Gorrell
Redheaded Gals Who Made Their Mark In Hollywood
A retrospective on redhead actresses from Cleopatra's era to mid century film, highlighting Virginia Van Upp Rita Hayworth Marlene Dietrich Susan Hayward and others. It notes bold personalities, grit and career resilience, plus anecdotes about Mary McCarey’s daughter and a 18th birthday contract with George White’s Scandals.
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Cleopatra
Virginia van Upp
Hollywood
Irving Cummings
Jean Arthur
Lee Bowman
Irene Dunne
Charles Boyer
Charles Coburn
Columbia
Rita Hayworth
Marc Platt
Oklahoma
Marc
Greer Garson
Mrs. Miniver
Madame Curie
Mary Astor
Barbara Stanwyck
Lucille Ball
Jeanette MacDonald
Jeanette
Marlene Dietrich
Joe von Sternberg
Marlene
Chichi
Jimmy Stewart
Destry
Una Merkel
Elephants
Buddy de Sylva
Leo McCarey
Mary
Buddy
George White
White
Leo
George
Remodeling an old chair into a blue accented seat
By Rath Wyeth Spears describes costly handwork to reclaim seating by scraping paint to reveal grain and adding a plywood scrap blue seat with ticking edge. The process includes enamel, drying time, and a fringed cover with ties, promoting BOOK 10 instructions.
Steel Checks Awarded In 1932 Welding Contests
Checks of steel presented by a Cleveland firm honored three winners of a 1932 contest. The two by one foot by three sixteenths inch plates bore welded steel letters and figures as prize money. The checks could be honored and canceled with a sub machine gun, the word Paid spelled by bullet holes.
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Cleveland
Eagle Trained to Hunt In Manner of Falconry
Dan and Jule Mannix, naturalists, trained a golden eagle named Tequila to hunt and return its prey. The eagle, with an eight foot wingspread, tackled a giant iguana lizard five feet long, excluding its tail, in its biggest hunt yet.
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Asia
Europe
Dan
Jule Mannix
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Seine
Senate
Tipperary
Madelon
Lotliwood
Susan Hayward
Paramount
Susan
Hairy Ape
Ann Sheridan
Nancy Coleman
Maureen O'Hara
Dinah Shore
Billie Burke
Flo Ziegfeld
Divine Sarah Sarah Bernhardt
Modjeska
Rejane
Lotta Crabtree
Ellen Terry
Leslie Carter
By Rath Wyeth Spears
Ruth Wyeth
Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Feathers
Mitchell
St.Joseph
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Doan
Doen
Crateic
WNU
Narita Bt
Firestone
Pioneer
Voice of
N.B.C
The
Firestone Tire & Bubber Co
Ewa
Mirestone
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