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Saturday, September 25, 2010
Groucho Turns 120
The Secret of Making Beautiful Cars In The 1950s
Tennis Elbow
For the Birds
Fall Travel: Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

"A cigar is Groucho's pet prop. 'If you forget a line, all you have to do is stick the cigar in your mouth.'"—The Saturday Evening Post, September 18, 1954.
(Image: Wikimedia Commons)
Saturday, August 28, 2010
The Rustic Poetry of Louisa Walker
Diabetes News
Conformity: The Ladies’ Model
Dogs Hate School!
The Price Of An Organized Society: Conformity in the 1960s

Walker family portrait, taken in 1918 by Jim Shelton.
Photo courtesy of Great Smoky Mountains Association.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
1969: The Post Listens To “The Soul Sound”
Sexy, Simply, Sad: How Mitch Miller Defined Pop Music in the 1950s
Air Conditioning: From Luxury to Necessity
Melanoma Update
Leading Ladies of the Sixties

Former spiritual singer Joe Simon shouts into a microphone the sounds of deep emotion that characterize Memphis soul music.
Photo by William Albert Allard.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
A Fiddler Keeps Hope Alive in 1920s Texas
The Post Discovers Country Music… in 1944
Walk Your Way to Fitness
Global Warming Sixty Years Ago
Forgotten Country Gentleman Covers

When a neighbor phoned Dad Nordyke for a few tunes to raise his spirits, people on the party line for miles around listened in to his pioneer network.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Enemy Agents Strike New York—In 1916
Arriving This Month!
It’s Road Trip Season!
Happy 4th of July!
Tips for Happy and Healthy Families

"Huge geysers of flame showed where burning barges were loose from their moorings." Here is a load of munitions afire during the Black Tom disaster. Captain Voska believes German agents directed Russians in setting off the blast.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
The Old Masters: Gene Sarazen Reinvents His Clubs and Self
The Old Masters: Thoughts on Golf and Life from Bobby Jones
Father’s Day Times Seventeen
Rheumatoid Arthritis
The Six Types of Fathers

What Gene Sarazen calls the most difficult stroke in golf, where the ball lies on the upside of the sand trap almost under the grass ledge.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Why America Should Care About The World Cup
84 Days of Ben Franklin
I Know That Face!
The Dangerous Doctor King
Crochet for Kids

The dusty hills of Malaysia provide one of thousands of worldwide playing fields. Such a universal sport is tailor-made for the great "melting pot." Photo Courtesy Zainal Abd Halim
Saturday, January 2, 2010
How to Raise Your Circulation by 62500% in Five Years
Firsthand America: “I Was a Game-Show Champion!”
Welcome, New Year
January Notes: Home, Yard, and Garden
Healthy New Year!

A newstand in Omaha, Nebraska. November, 1938.
Photography by John Vachen. Courtesy Library of Congress.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
The Photographer and the Spy
Signs of Economic Recovery
Special Delivery!
Top 10 Gardening Books
Track Your Family Health History

U. S. diplomat Alger Hiss was accused of espionage in 1948 and placed on trial. Post photographer Ollie Atkins, who covered the case, wrote about his experience when Hiss was readmitted to the bar in 1976.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Waiting for the Next Twain
The Show that Ruined Television
Post-Thanksgiving
Beyond Daffodils
Beating the Holiday Blues

Mark Twain (penname of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) in the lab of Nikola Tesla. Taken in the spring of 1894, and originally published as part of an article by T.C. Martin called "Tesla's Oscillator and Other Inventions" that appeared in the Century Magazine (April 1895). Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Cancer Therapy: Know Your Options
Seasonal Spirits
Aaron Copland Tries to Put It Into Words
Picking the Perfect Christmas Tree
The Inside Story

Experts provide reliable information on cancer therapies that work, as well as ones that don’t, in The American Cancer Society (ACS) Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Cancer Therapies. The book is available online at cancer.org/bookstore, at bookstores, and by calling the ACS toll free at 1-800-227-2345. Photo courtesy American Cancer Society.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Communism & Hollywood
Ben Franklin and the Slow Movement
A Kiss is Just a Kiss
Them Apples
New & Effective Psoriasis Drug

The Caine Mutuny director Edward Dmytryk was briefly involved with the Communist Party in 1944. He later grew disillusioned with the party and offered to help the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the 1960s.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Have You Seen Me?
What’s To Be Done with Fools?
Keeping Up with Yard Work
Making a Splash with Herbs
5 Steps to Healthier Skin

80 years ago a New York judge and "ladies' man" entered a taxi in midtown Manhattan. He hasn't been seen since. © 1960 SEPS. All rights reserved.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Walter Cronkite: A Few Last Words
To Reach Old Age, Stop Counting
Ellen Pyle
Planting Fall Crops
Diagnosis: Appendicitis

Ignoring a litter of wire-service copy on his desk, Cronkite takes a breather in CBS office. © 1963 SEPS. All Rights Reserved.























































































































































































































































































