His work quickly gained popularity during the 1940s and 1950s and he created over 500 pin-up paintings during his career, many of which were featured in magazines, calendars, and advertisements.

Gina Elise loved that glamorous look and decided to use the nostalgia to support contemporary troops. In 2006, she launched ...

After calling time at The Three Swans pub on September 5, 1940, landlady Nellie Curtis told her 16-year-old twins Frank and Dorothy to bed down in the smokeroom at the back. It was a fortuitous ...

The production reveals the horror of the Nazi bombing campaign that killed 40,000 civilians devastated London and other British cities between September 1940 and May 1941. And while viewers get to ...

Once again, Wallace is looking for love – and his swerve into bakery takes him to the door of Piella Bakewell, a former pin-up girl for the Bake-O-Lite company. Unfortunately, their budding ...

FARGO — The infamous Armistice Day Blizzard hit this region suddenly on Nov. 11, 1940, killing 154 people in the Upper Midwest. Among the dead were 49 Minnesotans, mostly bird hunters who froze ...

The best movies on Disney+ are actually just the best movies Disney has ever made, because the streaming giant has a monopoly on the House of Mouse. That means any property owned by Disney is on ...

Exercise and diet are not the only things to radically change over the last half-century. In the 1950s, a new home cost £2,000 but an office worker's average wage was just £ 14 a week.

George Merck addressed this question directly in 1950, proclaiming that: "We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have ...

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There was hardly a compelling match that didn’t get made in the 1950s. Boxing was a major sport in the 50s—competing with baseball as the most popular form of sporting entertainment at the time. The ...