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    Tramp Steamers

    There is also a similar site for air traffic worldwide.
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    Sexiest man alive turns 90

    Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates!
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Anti-aircraft fire, or Flak, (Flugzeugabwehrkanone), was generally considered quite effective by the end of the Second World War. Initially however, its performance was poor. Although the guns in use of both sides remained largely unchanged from the beginning to the end of war, improvements in...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I was lucky in Junior High School to have an extremely good German teacher. Mrs. Royal insisted on pronunciation and grammar, and said your vocabulary will grow with usage. It was true. Nine years later I was in the army stationed at a small base in a small town in Franconia. The grammar and...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Betty Hutton first came to my notice in Star Spangled Rhythm when I was tracking down Preston Sturges films. (Yes, I saw this before TMOMC. Its because Sturges is in SSR playing himself. And his bit includes trains and a prat fall.) Besides Hutton's singing chops, what floored me was her...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    It is interesting to note in these day-by-day newspaper stories hints of the activities of British Security Coordination. (This was the semi-covert organization the British ran to stymy Nazi activities in the Western Hemisphere and to influence the US government and population to side with...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    'Marie Dressler' dress were manufactured by the Gottfried Company of Cleveland, Ohio between 1935 and 1947. Marie Dressler herself died in 1934. This fashion history blog has a plausible run-down on this might have come about.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Sid and Marty Krofft have a lot to answer for... especially their jingle writer.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    That's awfully close to the estate that Nazi commercial envoy Westrick was staying at.
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    Grandfather's Editorial Cartoon Collection

    These are from before the war but reflect some of the domestic debates that were going on in the US. The fellow with the eyebrows and jaw holding the club is John L. Lewis. He was the president of the United Mine Workers and one of the founders of the CIO. He was of immense help to FDR in...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    FadingFast, if you liked Ann Sheridan and her fast, censor-duping banter, check out her role as a truck-stop waitress in They Drive By Night. The movie itself is sort of two different movies welded together. The first half, (in which Sheridan's dialogue dices fine), is a Warner Bros. working...
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    My Grandfather's Collection of Wartime Cartoons

    The next three here concern the war in Asia with particular attention to Japan's aims in India. The first one refers to the song, The Road to Mandalay.
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    Grandfather's Editorial Cartoon Collection

    Some more regarding the Democrats' convention:
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    Grandfather's Editorial Cartoon Collection

    Seeing that the party conventions for 1940 are being reported on in the Brooklyn papers, here are a few cartoons commenting on some of the issues at hand. This last one is a bit of a mystery to me. Looking up 'Wendell Willkie' and notebook just gets me pages of ads for political ephemera...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The 1935 version of Hitchcock's The 39 Steps with Donat and Carroll. I liked the bit on the Firth of Forth bridge particularly.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I don't know, but I'm rather glad that George Harrison mortgaged his house to put up the money to get Monty Python's Life of Brian made.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    If you are ever out Portland, Oregon way, head out east on Hwy 26 towards Mount Hood. In the town of Government Camp is the Huckleberry Inn. Besides being a lodge catering to skiers, the diner there serves a variety of Huckleberry dishes: Pie, Milkshakes, Pancakes. They apparently no longer...
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    My Grandfather's Collection of Wartime Cartoons

    Awareness of the possibility of an alliance between Japan and Germany, (along with Italy), predates the war's outbreak in 1939. The first cartoon here is from April-May of 1939. Beck is Jozef Beck, the Polish foreign minister. After unsuccessfully trying to play Germany and Russia off against...
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    My Grandfather's Collection of Wartime Cartoons

    Post-Pearl Harbor and this trio become increasingly common in the cartoons And Mussolini continues to be an easy mark.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "The agreement was reached even as two British naval cruisers attacked and sunk the 1378-ton French cruiser Frondeur in a two-hour battle off the coast of Crete." This is a good example of how the fog of war or deliberate misinformation can affect reporting. First, as far as I know or can find...

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