Category:
1950s
The Institute of Radio Engineers chose 19-year-old Toy Palaske to be "Miss Electronics of 1950." She got to wear a swimsuit covered with electronics symbols and a crown topped with a television antenna.
A few papers reported a different title for her, "Miss Microwave of 1950".
I assume she was both simultaneously.
(left) Pasadena Independent - Sep 15, 1950; (right) Los Angeles Mirror - Sep 14, 1950
The reassuring news, according to Dr. G.D. Kersley, was that if you've had one nuclear bomb dropped on you, you're unlikely to have another.
Kersley's article appeared in the Aug 9, 1958 issue of the
British Medical Journal.
You can read it here. The reassuring comments are on the final page, in the conclusions section.
Birmingham Post - Aug 8, 1958
The Linden Springs Rocket Restaurant, located in Staunton, Virginia, opened in 1959. A full-size, neon-lit rocket stood outside of it.
Going along with the theme of being a restaurant of the future, it boasted that it served food "cooked by radar." By this it meant that the food was microwaved.
This has to be one of the few times that a restaurant has actually bragged about serving microwave-cooked food.
image source: hippostcard.com
The restaurant went out of business in the 1970s, and the rocket was taken down. I haven't been able to find out where it ended up.
Staunton Daily News Leader - Nov 20, 1959
Staunton Daily News Leader - Nov 2, 1959
Staunton Daily News Leader - July 31, 1959
"I am sure if the powers that might wage war upon us knew that the population of the country was calmly clear on the information which can be used to protect themselves and their families, and knew what steps will be taken, then that might be the greatest deterrence to the use of any form of nuclear warfare."
It'd be nice to think that it was the calm practicality of British housewives that saved the world from nuclear warfare.
Vancouver Sun - Nov 27, 1957
Westminster and Pimlico News - Feb 27, 1959
Nov 1957: Anita Nock announced her intention to form an "Association of Angry Young Women."
Melbourne Age - Nov 26, 1957
Later reports indicated that her association didn't attract a lot of members.
Vancouver Sun - Feb 25, 1958
However, a news report from a few months later suggested that the Association did exist, in some form. The
"Monaco incident" referred to involved Lady Docker tearing up a paper flag of Monaco after she learned that her son wasn't invited to attend the wedding of Prince Rainier of Monaco and Grace Kelly. Hearing about this, Prince Rainer had her banned from the entire French Riviera.
London Sunday People - May 11, 1958
What were the miracle ingredients that could cure the tobacco habit?
Source.
Sep 1958: The National Live Stock and Meat Board's response to the launch of Sputnik was the creation of "Meat-Nik," aka "intercontinental bologna missile."
The National Provisioner - Sep 6, 1958
The National Provisioner - Sep 20, 1958
As far as I can tell, the frozen food industry started choosing a "Miss Frozen Foods" in 1956. Sometimes the winner was called Miss Frozen Food Month (or Week). The last Miss Frozen Foods that I can find was named in 1961.
Dillon Daily Tribune - Feb 7, 1956
Miss Frozen Foods of 1958 (Nancy Moss). image source: USC Libraries
Los Angeles Evening Citizen News - Mar 19, 1959
Tampa Tribune - Nov 5, 1961
You know the scene in old movies when the cops or some other authority figure calls in the handwriting expert? The expert examines the sample handwriting and confidently proclaims, "The writer was a sixty-five-year-old widow, who grew up in Romania, and has been a turkey farmer for the past three years." Well, now you too can become such an expert, by studying
this volume at the Internet Archive.