While her birth certificate spelled her name "Betty," she changed the spelling later in life to "Bettie ... her images were everywhere, gracing magazine covers and locker pin-ups.

Unsheltered life along The Ave in the U District looks ... Beat Generation writers, including Jack Kerouac, spent time during the 1950s in Washington fire lookouts. The solitary summers often ...

The magazine that called itself Life stood ... Taylor is right there on the cover of Volume 1, “The Golden Age of Stars, ...

On May 6, 1946, Life magazine published "Bedlam 1946," an exposé ... By contrast the same state starts prison guards off at $1,950 a year plus maintenance, although the psychiatric attendant's ...

take a look at her life in pictures. John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Born in Rome, Italy, on Sept. 20, 1934, Loren finished as a finalist in the Miss Italia 1950 contest ...

He maintained that love and work were the foundation of a meaningful existence. I have lived 34,342 days so far, and I am ...

According to their donor, the trend was made popular among high school and middle school girls of the 1950’s. Fathers or brothers would purchase the bullet cases from local Army surplus stores ...

Equally recognizable was the blank stare that those same kids knew evoked the iconic question: “What, Me Worry?” Drawn by ...

Even when things began to improve as the 1950s progressed, life was still difficult for many working class people. This was something Shelagh Delaney was keen to portray in her play. She also ...

For this Nostalgia edition we will be taking a look back at the early 1950s. There was a lot happening across the world at this time. This was the decade when NASA was created Elizabeth II becomes ...

In Fellow Travelers, Bailey and Matt Bomer star in the roles of Tim and Hawk, male political staffers who fall in love in the 1950s when gay ... from that period of my life. It’s a very distant ...

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