#december 1947

[theamericanpin-up]

Earl MacPherson - "Winter Scene" - 1947 Artist's Sketch Book Calendar Illustration - Shaw-Barton Calendar Co. - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Christmas tree at Rockefeller Plaza stands out on December 26, 1947, as a few hardy pedestrians make their way through the drifts of the big 1947 blizzard.

Photo: Harry Harris for the AP via Design You Trust

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

Anything Goes December

Miracle on 34th Street / Natalie Wood as Susan Walker

Susan has a couple of nice winter coats in this movie. I picked this double-breasted plaid one for three reasons. First, because it's a nice item in itself. Second, because Maureen O'Hara (as Doris Walker) and John Payne (as Fred Gailey) also have terrific costumes in the scene where it appears--just look at that gorgeous overcoat and perfectly sloped hat on Payne! And third, because I couldn't resist a chance to screencap Natalie Wood giving some truly epic sideye.

The tailoring on the coat is very nice: note how the stripes line up between the body and the sleeves. It also has a belt in the back to adjust the fit. With it, Susan wears a hood-style hat with rosettes over the ears, probably of felt.

This was always my favorite of the classic Christmas movies. Remakes? What remakes?

[todaysdocument]

Pumpkin pie and Perfection Salad were on the menu at the Truman White House on 12/20/1947. 

Collection HST-BWT: Bess W. Truman Papers

Series: White House Menus Files

File Unit: October 1 - December 31, 1947

Transcription:

[stamped] HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY NARA [/stamped]

Saturday

December 20

1947

LUNCHEON

Bouillon

Chipped Beef on toast [handwritten] 8 - Sm. Din. Rm. [/handwritten]

Buttered Peas [handwritten] lots of coffee [/handwritten]

Casserole of Squash

Cinnamon Rolls

Macaroon Whip

DINNER

Grapefruit

Pork Roast

Pineapple Garnish

Baked Sweet Potatoes

Broccoli

Hollandaise Sauce

Perfection Salad

Pumpkin Pie

Cheese

[machetelanding]

Cary Grant in The Bishop's Wife (1947)

[federer7]

Wonder Comics #15 , December 1947)

Cover by Alex Schomburg

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[rabbitcruiser]

The Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated on December 6, 1947.

[a-typical]

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappé (2006)

[theamericanpin-up]

Alberto Vargas - "Island Charmer" - December 1947 Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Yearbook Calendar Illustration - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Two New Yorkers dig out a car on December 26, 1947. In the two-day period of December 26th and 27th, 1947, the city recorded a snowfall of 26.4 inches.

Photo: Associated Press via WHNT

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

Anything Goes December

The Bishop's Wife / Cary Grant as Dudley

I'm including this in a bonus post because in some ways I feel like it doesn't quite deserve to be featured. After all, it's just a dark overcoat with a polka-dotted scarf--nothing really out of the ordinary. It's not even the fact that Cary Grant is wearing it, because he's worn plenty of other things that I don't remember as well. Maybe it's just the black and white contrast, or maybe it subconsciously reminds me of something my father used to wear? All I know is that this combination has really stuck with me.

Somehow, I never saw this movie until a few years ago, but it quickly became a holiday favorite. The women's costumes are fascinating in it as well because they're in that very brief window between the end of wartime austerity and the rise of the New Look.

P.S. This is my 500th post!

[heritageposts]

Germany's leading Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the opposition Christian Democratic Party (CDU) have ordered high schools in Berlin's borough of Neukolln to distribute brochures titled The Myth of Israel #1948. [...] Neukolln is one of Berlin's most diverse and international boroughs with a large Palestinian community. [...] The brochure states there are five "myths" around the creation of the state of Israel, which are subsequently refuted in short essays by various authors. In the first section, debunking myth #1, that Jews and Arabs lived together in peace before Israel was founded, Israel's pre-state militia, the Haganah, responsible for the destruction of 531 Palestinian villages and the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians between December 1947 and the summer of 1948, is promoted as a merely "defensive" Jewish resistance movement. Under 'Myth #2: Israel was established on stolen Palestinian land', Masiyot states that the acquisition of land by Jewish immigrants to Palestine took the form of a legal exchange of capital for an official title deed. At no point in history was land illegally conquered by Jewish immigrants, the author of the text, Michael Spaney, claims. Even land conquered following the wars of 1948 and 1967 and the subsequent construction of settlements, which are internationally recognised as a violation of international law, did not occur unlawfully, it says. "Anyone who uses the accusation of land theft as an argument demonises Israel and denies its legitimacy, i.e. acts out of antisemitic motives," Spaney wrote. "Myth #5: Israel is to blame for the Nakba", includes a text by researcher Shany Mor titled "the UN is distorting the meaning of the Nakba: its view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is extremely one-sided". In the text, Mor states that "displacement during war - then and now - was nothing unusual". He also labels the UN's attention to the Palestinian cause "obsessive" and the Arab defeat of 1948 a myth.

. . . full article on MME (23 Feb 2024)

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry written c. December 1945 from The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. IV: 1944-1947

[sayruq]

The brochure states there are five "myths" around the creation of the state of Israel, which are subsequently refuted in short essays by various authors.In the first section, debunking myth #1, that Jews and Arabs lived together in peace before Israel was founded, Israel's pre-state militia, the Haganah, responsible for the destruction of 531 Palestinian villages and the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians between December 1947 and the summer of 1948, is promoted as a merely "defensive" Jewish resistance movement. Under 'Myth #2: Israel was established on stolen Palestinian land', Masiyot states that the acquisition of land by Jewish immigrants to Palestine took the form of a legal exchange of capital for an official title deed.

At no point in history was land illegally conquered by Jewish immigrants, the author of the text, Michael Spaney, claims.Even land conquered following the wars of 1948 and 1967 and the subsequent construction of settlements, which are internationally recognised as a violation of international law, did not occur unlawfully, it says. "Anyone who uses the accusation of land theft as an argument demonises Israel and denies its legitimacy, i.e. acts out of antisemitic motives," Spaney wrote. "Myth #5: Israel is to blame for the Nakba", includes a text by researcher Shany Mor titled "the UN is distorting the meaning of the Nakba: its view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is extremely one-sided". In the text, Mor states that "displacement during war - then and now - was nothing unusual".He also labels the UN's attention to the Palestinian cause "obsessive" and the Arab defeat of 1948 a myth.

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