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The Mouseketeers
The "Mouseketeers" were an assortment of variously gifted, mostly non-professional California kids selected by Walt Disney as the core around which...
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Little Black Dress
The little black dress, a simple yet timeless fashion innovation first popular in the 1920s, has been called the foundation of any woman's...
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Jacqueline Susann
Jacqueline Susann, sometimes called the Joan Crawford of novelists, wrote only three works of fiction between 1966 and 1973, but her first novel,...
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The Weekend
In contemporary American culture, the weekend generally signifies the end of the traditional work week, or the period from Friday night to Monday...
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Public Television
With its dedication to the high ideals of presenting the finest in drama, music, children's programs, and political debate, public television...
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Armed Forces Radio Service
During World War II American radio made three key contributions to the war effort: news broadcasts supporting U.S. involvement in the war,...
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Advice Columns
An often maligned and much parodied journalistic genre--though a telling and accurate barometer of moral assumptions and shifting sexual...
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Billboards
From simple barnside advertisements and other billboarding techniques of the early 1900s, to today's huge high-tech creations on Los Angeles'...
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Sex Scandals
Like the worlds oldest profession, scandals motivated by human sexuality have always been with us. From the Old Testament and those scandalous...
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Ray Coniff
Through a unique combination of genuine musical talent fused with a keen sense of both commercial trends and evolving recording technologies of the...
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