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Saturday Night Uforia: In the news, 1952 (Part 5)
Above: Featurette from the Sunday newspaper supplement Parade Magazine, July 27, 1952, with text sections enlarged at bottom of image.NINETEEN FIFTY-TWO might be remembered for many things, large and...
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Saturday Night Uforia: In the news, 1952 (Part 6)
Above: From the Daily Telegram, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, July 29, 1952.NINETEEN FIFTY-TWO might be remembered for many things, large and small. The election of Dwight Eisenhower as President of the...
View ArticleSaturday Night Uforia: In the news, 1952 (Part 7)
THE SEVEN YEARS FOLLOWING the end of World War II brought to the world only a turbulent and troubled peace. By 1946 Winston Churchill was warning that the Soviets had lowered an "iron curtain" across...
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Saturday Night Uforia: In the news, 1952 (Part 8)
Above: From the North Adams Transcript, Massachusetts, July 30, 1952.NINETEEN FIFTY-TWO might be remembered for many things, large and small. The election of Dwight Eisenhower as President of the...
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Saturday Night Uforia: In the news, 1952 (Part 9)
Above: From the News-Palladium, Benton Harbor, Michigan, July 30, 1952.NINETEEN FIFTY-TWO might be remembered for many things, large and small. The election of Dwight Eisenhower as President of the...
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Saturday Night Uforia: In the news, 1952 (Part 10)
Above: From the Hutchinson News-Herald, Kansas, July 31, 1952.NINETEEN FIFTY-TWO might be remembered for many things, large and small. The election of Dwight Eisenhower as President of the United...
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Saturday Night Uforia: In the news, 1952 (Part 11)
Above: From the Waukesha Daily Freeman, Wisconsin, August 2, 1952.NINETEEN FIFTY-TWO might be remembered for many things, large and small. The election of Dwight Eisenhower as President of the United...
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Saturday Night Uforia: Time for a break
THOSE REGULARS READING THE TITLE could justifiably assume that this means time for another short vacation. But this time is different. This time it means it's time for this series to make a break, a...
View ArticleKagan: No constitutional right to marriage equality
ALTHOUGH SUPREME COURT nominee Elena Kagan comes without a record of written judicial opinions, according to her written answers submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2009, her views...
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The Carriage Held But Just Ourselves
THIS IS A DIARY ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED on January 6, 2007, during a time when my primary activity -- outside of tending to my son -- was keeping the human cost of the war in Iraq front and center. I was...
View ArticleMy July 4th in prison, or what it really takes to be a foster family
(reposted) I HAD ORIGINALLY PROMISED SEVERAL KOSSACKS that I would write this diary on the ins and outs of foster care, and becoming a foster dad (or mom) weeks ago. I'm late in posting this because I...
View Articlea sneaky diary for the old gang
WELL WITH MB LEAVING and all attention turned there I thought I'd sneak in an announcement regarding the former diary series here known as Saturday Night Uforia that's meant to be and hopefully is seen...
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