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  1. Stanley Doble

    What if Edward VIII never abdicated?

    I was surprised to find how popular Edward was among the working class in Canada and England even into the sixties and seventies. I knew older men who would not hear a word against him. This puzzled me enough to ask why. The reasons they gave were vague, but seemed to boil down to the fact that...
  2. Stanley Doble

    What if Edward VIII never abdicated?

    Contemporary joke I heard from an Englishman who was there at the time. You won't find it in print for obvious reasons. Did you hear the King joined the Merchant Marine? He's third mate on an American tramp.
  3. Stanley Doble

    What if Edward VIII never abdicated?

    They could have accepted an American but they could not accept a divorcee with two husbands living and a shady past in Shanghai. Quote from the wife of an MP of the time: "You are a man and a politician, and you have to deal with all sorts. But I will not be introduced to that whore". The...
  4. Stanley Doble

    What if Edward VIII never abdicated?

    I don't think it would have made much difference in the short run. The government kept him on a short leash. Notice that when he put his foot down about marrying the woman he loved, it was he who lost his job not the prime minister or Parllament. In the longer term we would have had no Queen...
  5. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Bought a roast chicken at the grocery store along with some cole slaw, dinner rolls and cheesecake. Came home and cooked up some potatoes, carrots and turnips in the pressure cooker. Even boiled up my own cranberry sauce and made stove top stuffing out of a loaf of stuffing bread. It made quite...
  7. Stanley Doble

    What's For Breakfast...

    Cream of wheat with all bran and milk. Strawberries with cream.
  8. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    (Pressure cooker) boiled vegetables, cabbage rutabaga parsnip carrot potato with a slice of ham. Cake with strawberries and whipped cream for dessert.
  9. Stanley Doble

    What if FDR had lived?

    If JFK approved the Bay of Pigs invasion why deny them air support?
  10. Stanley Doble

    What if FDR had lived?

    Here is a very interesting recording, the only recording of Hitler in private conversation, with Baron Carl Mannerheim, Commander in Chief of the Finnish armed forces. Not many people remember the Finnish war when the Soviet Union attacked Finland in 1939. The occasion was Mannerheim's 75th...
  11. Stanley Doble

    What if FDR had lived?

    The Bay of Pigs invasion was a CIA operation disguised as a spontaneous counter revolution. It was planned during the Eisenhower administration, presumably with Eisenhower's approval. Kennedy attempted to quash it, but they went ahead without his approval and without air support. They thought...
  13. Stanley Doble

    What if FDR had lived?

    Hitler's big mission was to protect Germany from outside aggression. He feared France and England but Communism was his big bugbear and he believed Communism was a Jewish plot. As long as we are theorizing about alternate history how about one more small change. What if Hitler never invaded...
  14. Stanley Doble

    What if FDR had lived?

    I would have expected Nixon to give the CIA the backing (air support) they wanted. Whether the invasion of Cuba would have succeeded, or caused an all out nuclear war I have no idea. The invasion might well have failed but in a more bloody fashion, and left the US government and Nixon taking the...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Counting Your Change...

    Unless they changed the law that silver certificate entitles you to $1 worth of silver at the official price of $1.29 an ounce, less than 1/10 what it sells for today. But I have a feeling they have changed the law since the sixties.
  16. Stanley Doble

    What if FDR had lived?

    As long as we are talking about alternative history how about this butterfly wing. In 1960 vice President Richard Nixon was running for President. Some reporters asked President Eisenhower what Nixon's most important contributions as vice President were. Eisenhower replied "give me a week and I...
  17. Stanley Doble

    What if FDR had lived?

    You may be right about Stalin but it is only fair to point out that if it had not been for the threat of the Communist party inside Germany, and the threat of the Soviet Union from the outside Hitler would never have invaded Poland and probably would never have come to power. In other words...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Golden Era movies set during 1880s/1890s?

    Life With Father was written by Clarence Day and was his attempt to put down on paper, memories of his own father who he looked up to as a most remarkable character. The book at least is told as true, and the movie is reasonably true to the book. So as good a portrait of life in an upper middle...
  20. Stanley Doble

    Picture of MGM Stars in 1943

    As an actor the first thing you have to learn is never look at the camera
  21. Stanley Doble

    Golden Era movies set during 1880s/1890s?

    She Done Him Wrong was set in the 1890s but does not depict it as very idyllic. It was written by Mae West who was born in 1893, put it on the stage in 1926 and made it into a movie in 1933. It tells the story of a promiscuous saloon singer, her lovers who range from a convict to a Salvation...
  22. Stanley Doble

    Dean Martin's signature "Flame of Love Martini"

    To me Dean Martin was a better singer and had a better voice than Sinatra. Too bad he usually threw it away by hamming it up for laughs.
  23. Stanley Doble

    Movies that had Great Initial Success and, then, Chirp, Chirp, Chirp

    One of my favorite movies is The Long Long Trailer largely for the breathtaking outdoor shots and mountain scenery. The 'comedy' falls flat most of the time. I blame the writers and director since I am a Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz fan. This is in reference to the lameness of Techicolor...

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