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on February 3, 2012
With the Academy Awards presentations coming later this month, let’s get the movie reels rolling ...
Memories
on February 2, 2012
My brother, Lavern Lerg, and I used to go stag to dances so we could ...
1940s
on February 2, 2012
My high school classmate Dorothy and I stood at the bus stop in front of ...
1930s
on February 2, 2012
When I was a girl in the 1930s and ’40s, washing dishes for our family ...
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on February 1, 2012
With the Academy Awards presentations coming later this month, let’s get the movie reels rolling ...
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on February 1, 2012
Love is sometimes helped along by circumstances, as this tongue-in-cheek letter appearing in a hometown ...
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on February 1, 2012
Memories of chocolates and surprises beset my every thought as Valentine’s Day drew near in the early 1940s. Mother always said that ...
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on February 1, 2012
When I turned 11, the most wonderful thing happened in Ms. Daisy Blogg’s classroom—I fell ...
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on February 1, 2012
These intrepid men are sailing aboard the Bear of Oakland with Rear Admiral Robert A.J. ...
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on January 26, 2012
As the 2011 Academy Awards approach, we can’t help reminiscing about the best movies of ...
When I switched careers from radio to television production in 1948, everything was new and untried. There were no lists of things you couldn’t do,...
Uplifting Stories
His cauliflower ears made him look like he’d endured a series of nasty headlocks from ...
Cars and Travel
I remember my first car as clearly as though it were parked in my driveway ...
Family Life
The winter of 1935-36 went down in history as one of the coldest and snowiest ever ...
Pop Culture
As high schoolers in the 1940s, my friends and I loved the Big Bands and ...
Childhood
In the 1940s, when I was in elementary school, we didn’t have much money. But ...
Military
I climbed the gangway of the USS J.R.Y. Blakely with some trepidation. The colorful decals ...
