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[Clipping of Win Post Tourney openers] (open access)

[Clipping of Win Post Tourney openers]

Section of the Houston Post covering the Post Tourney. Includes Post Tourney Calendar and Tournament Box Scores, and names of the teams and their performance. Also includes an article by Frank Morris, "Mexicans Field Sensationally behind Beltran."
Date: July 8, 1940
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Girl Pilots] (open access)

[Clipping: Girl Pilots]

Featured article in LIFE magazine about the WASP members and life at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas. The article includes many photographs of the women taking classes, performing tasks, and training at the flight school. On the back of one of the pages is part of an article on narcotics.
Date: July 19, 1943
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: "Life's Cover"] (open access)

[Clipping: "Life's Cover"]

Magazine clipping of a brief item discussing the cover subject of Life Magazine's July 19, 1943 issue. It includes details about WASP trainee Shirley Slade and where readers can learn more about "girl pilots" (line 10).
Date: July 19, 1943
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Girl Pilots] (open access)

[Clipping: Girl Pilots]

Magazine clipping of an article about the females training to be pilots. Details about their training such as classes and daily routines are provided.
Date: July 19, 1943
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Fifty Years Ago Today] (open access)

[Clipping: Fifty Years Ago Today]

Newspaper clipping of an article featuring excerpts from the Dallas Morning News fifty year prior. Some of the excerpts are about Dallas county indictments to conviction ratio and a Dallas restaurant with a singing parrot. An article is partially visible on the reverse side about peanut farm loss.
Date: July 30, 1943
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Mrs. Bryan, Pioneer of Abilene, Dies] (open access)

[Clipping: Mrs. Bryan, Pioneer of Abilene, Dies]

Newspaper clipping about the death of Martha Chaplain Dashiell, wife of senator W. J. Bryan, along with the clipped newspaper header. Partial ads and articles are on the reverse side.
Date: July 28, 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Class 3 Achieves First Goal] (open access)

[Clipping: Class 3 Achieves First Goal]

Newspaper clipping describing the quality of the parachutes used at Avenger Field and the Link training process for the WASPs. The clipping also provides details about the graduation ceremony for the Women AIrforce Service Pilots, class of 43-W-3.
Date: July 26, 1943
Creator: Clements, Betty; Seip, Margaret & Baumgartner, Ann
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: American Red Cross Receives Letters From Overseas Workers] (open access)

[Clipping: American Red Cross Receives Letters From Overseas Workers]

Newspaper clipping of the article, "American Red Cross Receives Letters from Overseas Workers," and three photos of Cornelia Yerkes, Hope Mills-Price, and Florence Goldrick. The article briefly profiles each pictured woman and provides information on how to work with the Red Cross.
Date: July 11, 1945
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Song for a Lonely Girl] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Song for a Lonely Girl]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl wearing a low-back blue and white floral bodysuit paired with the verse "Song for a Lonely Girl" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction print of the painting "Bayonet Fighter with Wings" by Alexander Leydenfrost especially for the July edition of Esquire Magazine in 1944. The painting depicts a squad of nine soldiers unloading from a fighter plane that has landed in a field, carrying with them various weapons and ammunition while planes fly low overhead.
Date: July 1944
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Leydenfrost, Alexander
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clippings Related to 1944 Democratic National Convention] (open access)

[Clippings Related to 1944 Democratic National Convention]

Card with printed text "Bawl hell out of Dan Moody and Clint Small" attached to two newspaper clippings related to Texas delegates opposing support for the New Deal and F. D. Roosevelt being elected for a fourth presidential term. Names are underlined in red pencil on the card and in the clippings, and "Write Clint Small" is typewritten at the top of the text in the first clipping. Partial articles on the backs of the clipping describe news about World War II, in Guam and Hungary.
Date: 1944-07~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Smoke Protects Fighters] (open access)

[Clipping: Smoke Protects Fighters]

Bulletin article discussing the advantage of smoke screens to cover the positions of troops, cities, harbors, ships, and camps during WWII. Partial articles on the reverse of the pages discuss military technology and medical research.
Date: July 1, 1944
Creator: Monahan, A. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: A Glossary for Reactionaries] (open access)

[Clipping: A Glossary for Reactionaries]

Newspaper clipping containing an editorial in the form of a glossary defining words for reactionaries. The definitions reflect the author's view of American culture at the time. A cartoon labelled "X-Ray of the Nationalist Brain" is featured next to the editorial. There are headlines for other articles on the back of the clipping.
Date: July 5, 1945
Creator: Lerner, Max
System: The Portal to Texas History