Graham Smith
428 posts
The TV GAME QUIZ
What is the year -
please repost so others can play.
Tv teaser!
What was the year ?
#friday
#retro #television
English
Jimmy Stewart, 1945 | A War Hero Returns Home.
Written by Ben Cosgrove for LIFE Magazine, September 24, 1945.
When James Maitland Stewart, the oldest child and only son of Alexander and Elizabeth Stewart of Indiana, PA, enlisted in the United States Army in 1941, he wasn’t like most privates. For one thing, he was already well into his 30s. For another, he had already been rejected by the military for being too skinny. (The first time around, he was five pounds under the Army’s weight standard for new recruits.) And finally, no other World War II inductee had won a Best Actor Oscar, as Stewart had for his performance as reporter Mike Connor in the 1940 classic, The Philadelphia Story.
Putting his Hollywood career on hold to join the Army Air Corps—a forerunner to today’s Air Force—Stewart ultimately reached the rank of Colonel, making him one of few Americans ever to rise from private to colonel in four years. He flew dozens of combat missions, some as command pilot, on sorties deep into Nazi-occupied Europe, and returned from the war on the Queen Elizabeth, covered in medals including the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Distinguished Service Medal.
For the cover story of LIFE magazine’s September 24, 1945 issue, photographer Peter Stackpole followed Stewart as the Hollywood star and war hero returned to his hometown.
______________________________________________________________________________
Photo Descriptions
Photo 1. Jimmy Stewart and his dad outside the family hardware store, Indiana, PA, 1945.
Photo 2. Thirty-seven-year-old Jimmy Stewart sat down at the table with (clockwise from left) his younger sister Mary, his mother Elizabeth, his father Alexander, and his other younger sister, Virginia, 1945.
Photo 3. Jimmy Stewart, home from the war, helped clear the table at his parents’ house, 1945.
Photo 4. Jimmy Stewart chatted with George Little, the oldest employee in his father’s hardware store, 1945. Besides all the usual hardware goods, the store also boasted Jimmy’s “Philadelphia Story” Oscar on display in the stores front window.
Photo 5. While his father chatted with a customer at the hardware store, a uniformed Jimmy Stewart set up a date to go fishing.
Photo 6. Jimmy Stewart on the phone at his father’s hardware store, 1945.
Photo 7. Jimmy Stewart went fishing with his old friend Clyde “Woodie” Woodward, 1945.
Photo 8. Jimmy Stewart and friend Clyde “Woodie” Woodward fishing, Indiana, PA, 1945.
Photo 9. The house where Jimmy Stewart grew up in Indiana, PA, about 50 miles from Pittsburgh, 1945.
Photo 10. Jimmy Stewart signed autographs in Indiana, PA, 1945.
Photo 11. Jimmy Stewart, 1945.
Photo 12. Jimmy kidded his father about the old days. His sister Mary (centre) was an artist and married to a chaplain in the Navy. His other sister Virginia (left) was a magazine writer and married to artist Alexis Tiranoff, who was in the Army.
Photo 13. Jimmy Stewart plays the piano with his sister Virginia, 1945.
Photo 14. James Stewart looked in his family’s hardware store window and spotted a model plane he’d built years earlier, 1945.
Photo 15. In 1945, Jimmy Stewart eyed a stuffed squirrel he’d shot years earlier. The creature was only “slightly mouldy” reported LIFE.
Photo 16. Visiting his hometown in 1945, Colonel Jimmy Stewart played with a pair of puppets he made when he was seven years old.
Photo 17. Jimmy Stewart entertained some local children, Indiana, PA, 1945.
Photo 18. Jimmy Stewart took out his father’s horse, 1945.
Photo 19. Magician Bill Neff wasn’t just a friend of Stewart’s; he once provided Jimmy with a summer job, when they “took a tour as magicians.”
Photo 20. James Stewart, back home after serving in World War II, read in bed at his parents’ house, Indiana, PA, 1945.
Photo 21. Jimmy Stewart, 1945.
_______________________________________________________________________________
All photos and captions by photographer Peter Stackpole for LIFE Magazine.
Song | “Battle Hymn of the Republic” performed by The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.
English
The TV GAME QUIZ
Phew 😰
What is the year -
please repost so others can play.
Tv teaser!
What was the year ?
#thursday
#retro #television
English
@bbctms This on reflection of what happend in Australia is how unprofessional this cricket board is.
English
Former captain Michael Vaughan says it is "ridiculous" England are yet to appoint their new national selector, after Luke Wright announced he was stepping down earlier in the year 🗣️
English
The TV GAME QUIZ
What is the year -
please repost so others can play.
Tv teaser!
What was the year ?
#Wednesday
#retro #television
English
THE MUSIC CHART QUIZ ❤️❤️
What year ??
Please repost so others can play !
A nice UK chart .what year is it from
Try to do it without using google or Grok . . #music #popchart #wednesday
English
The TV GAME QUIZ
What is the year -
please repost so others can play.
Tv teaser!
What was the year ?
#tuesday
#retro #television
English
@untypicalboro @FraserNelson @utb_smith we must get a grip of this , some thing serious has got to happen the country simply can't afford it .
English
Another significant evolution in Reform's style of politics. Its proposed internment camps will only be built in parts of the country that vote for its rivals.
This is a new departure for UK politics: rejecting the idea of PM-for-all and instead a new partisan style.
Zia Yusuf@ZiaYusufUK
Today we announce a new policy: In order to deport all illegal migrants in Britain, Reform will need to detain tens of thousands at a time. Migrants will not be able to leave these detention centres, and each will be held there a couple of weeks before being deported. So here’s our promise: A Reform government will not put any migrant detention facilities in any constituency with a Reform MP. Nor will we put them where Reform controls the council. And of the remaining areas, we will prioritise Green controlled parliamentary constituencies and Green controlled councils to locate the detention centres. Put simply, if you vote in a Reform council or Reform MP, we guarantee you won’t have a detention centre near you. If you vote Green, there’s a good chance you will. This is an important exercise in democratic consent, not just for our mass deportation policy, but for where the detention centres are placed. Given @ZackPolanski openly advocates for open borders, I look forward to their warm embrace of this policy. votegreengetillegals.com
English
@AtTheRaces They will start to worry when the crowds start disappearing.
English
✍️ 'If it becomes simply another elite race dominated by the sport’s strongest forces, something of its magic is dissipated...'
In his latest column, Tom Savill asks why the Grand National is losing its audience 👇
English
The TV GAME QUIZ
What is the year -
please repost so others can play.
Tv teaser!
What was the year ?
#monday
#retro #television
English
The TV GAME QUIZ
What is the year -
please repost so others can play.
Tv teaser!
What was the year ?
#sunday
#retro #television
English
@WillieMullinsNH @dan2231 @punchestownrace Well done to Team Mullins on another successful season , well deserved willie.
English
♥️PLACE DE LA NATION♥️ & @dan2231 land the G1 SBK Irish EBF Mares Champion Hurdle @punchestownrace this afternoon!!
Congratulations to owners Gigginstown House Stud, groom Laurine & our team at home ⭐️
📸Caroline Norris
English
@gelliott_racing @jackkennedy15 Well done to Jack , well deserved.
English
A second Irish jumps jockey title for @jackkennedy15 🏆
Well deserved and a huge congratulations from the entire team 👏🏻
English
@RacingTV well done
very good Jockey wish him well for the future.
English
