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A floating party on the Apple River in Somerset, Wisconsin in 1941. history

When River Tubing Was A New American Pastime

Negro kids all over the country mob Paige. He is placed alongside Joe Louis and Bill Robinson as a popular hero. Satchel free-lances, pitching each week for best bid. people

Satchel Paige When He Pitched for the Black Yankees

Portrait of the legendary Carter family (R-L) A. P. Carter, his sister-in-law Maybelle (playing guitar), her sister Sara (A.P.'s wife) playing autoharp and; Maybelle's young daughters Helen, June and; Anita; singing together home. arts & entertainment

Behind the Music of Country’s Founding Family

As the game went into the night, the ash trays overflowed and the air got positively "blue." Reasoning that "if men can take it, so can we," the women continued. history

Role Reversal: LIFE Goes to a Men’s-Style Party Night for Republican Women

Rita Hayworth, photographed through a car window, 1941. arts & entertainment

Rita Hayworth: Hollywood Legend, Pinup Icon

Walt Disney filming on a beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1941. people

The Unlikely Hipster: Walt Disney on the Beach in Brazil, 1941

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Last Days of High School: Mansfield, Ohio, 1941

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