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Last weekâs column began with, âI suppose there arenât many of us who havenât read Tennysonâs famous poem The Charge of the Light Brigade while in school.â It went on to point out that out of the 670 British light cavalrymen who charged into that valley on October 25, 1854 to capture some cannons at its far end, 278 men and 375 horses fell in just five minutes; and it added the fact that the brave men who died in that charge were in the wrong place. In truth, no one was supposed to charge into that valley of death. It was all a mistake, one which began as a simple order to go guard some abandoned enemy cannons up on a hill until the infantry could climb up there and collect them. ....
The True Story Behind Tokyo Rose Donaldson Collection/Getty Images By Marina Manoukian/Jan. 21, 2021 11:08 am EDT During World War II, Tokyo Rose was infamous among American GIs for seductively predicting their downfall, whether it was due to infidelity, sterility, or in battle. But for all the stories told about Tokyo Rose, there s little evidence that she actually existed. Despite this fact, the United States government insisted on turning Iva Toguri d Aquino, a U.S. citizen who refused to renounce her citizenship during the war, into Tokyo Rose during the 1940s and 50s when they prosecuted and convicted her for treason, per Courthouse News. Toguri ended up serving a little over six years in prison and was repeatedly threatened with deportation after her release. ....
By Sandra Niemi Feral House: 350 pages, $22. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. You didn’t need to be a pubescent boy (or his father) to fully appreciate the charms of Maila Nurmi a.k.a. Vampira when she first appeared on late-night KABC-TV in the spring of 1954. But it didn’t hurt. She was tall, beautiful and frightening and she screamed like a banshee, climaxing each howl with a lewd lick of her full lips, which even in black-and-white glistened bloodily. Her pale body was almost a caricature of an hourglass figure, like one of those inexplicably bountiful women featured in the pinups of Joaquin Alberto Vargas, for whom Nurmi had modeled only a few years earlier. But what made Vampira most memorable was the jokes she slyly delivered at machine-gun speed: pop, pop, pop. She came heavily armed with oodles of sexy, macabre puns and she wasn’t afraid to use them. ....
comments A rarely- seen set of LIFE Magazine photos capture the legendary stripper, Gypsy Rose Lee while on tour with the carnival in 1949- Lee was the world s most famous burlesque dancer in the 1930s and 1940s Born to a ruthlessly ambitious stage mother- Lee spent her entire childhood performing as a second-rate actor in the vaudeville circuit while playing second fiddle to her younger sister who was the star of the show Her mother pitted the sisters against each other and dismissed Gypsy as fat and untalented - her sister later said that Gypsy was the first person to be famous for being famous ....