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...radio. The movie uses the messages from God to emphasize the power of mass media in American life, Hoberman said. The Hollywood producers during the Cold War were growing aware that their movies provided a social function, Hoberman said. Action and war films during the early 1940s had catered to an excited, militant public. In the 1950s, that action was replaced by the tranquility of the homestead amid fears of nuclear war. Only a miracle, such as the voice of God in “The Next Voice You Hear,” could quell those fears, Hoberman said. Hollywood...
...parking-garage tycoon Joe Diamond, you might still be looking for a spot. In the 1940s, faced with a postwar shortage of parking-lot attendants, he set up self-pay boxes to collect fees. His tactics, like attaching 50-gal. drums to the tires of unpaid vehicles, irked customers, but his idea caught on, helping make self-pay systems standard in lots across the country...
...Tarzan; in Los Angeles. Brix was not the most famous Tarzan--an injury forced him to cede that role to Johnny Weissmuller-- but he was the favorite of Tarzan writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. Later, as Bruce Bennett, his stage name, he appeared in such acclaimed films of the 1940s as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with Humphrey Bogart, and the Joan Crawford classic Mildred Pierce...
...publication of “Middletown”—a best-selling anthropological study of a Midwestern community—the search for the “average American” in the public opinion polls of George Gallup and Elmo Roper in the 1930s and 1940s, and the controversy stirred up by the publication of the Kinsey Reports in 1948 and 1953. Her analysis focuses on how the development of surveys and statistics affected the understanding of social science in the mainstream and gave Americans a yardstick to measure themselves with, different from any tool they...
...during his presidency. The first President Bush, by comparison, issued only 77 pardons during his four-year term. His son has thus far issued 113 pardons as President. But as governor of Texas, he holds the record for the least number of pardons of any Texas governor since the 1940s (only 17, compared with 70 for his predecessor Ann Richards). He has explained his reluctance by citing his bad experience with the case of a drug dealer he pardoned, who was rearrested a few months later for stealing cocaine from a drug raid...