Download or read book Oral History Interview with Ralph Coburn written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interview of Ralph Coburn conducted 1995 May 25 and 1995 June 23, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art, in Coburn's home, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Download or read book Ralph Coburn written by Ralph Coburn and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coburn Richard K Interview written by Richard K. Coburn and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interview with Richard K. Coburn conducted on 23 February 1986 by Kenneth Baldridge as part of the BYU Hawaii Oral History Program.
Download or read book Flying against Fate written by S. P. MacKenzie and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, Allied casualty rates in the air were high. Of the roughly 125,000 who served as aircrew with Bomber Command, 59,423 were killed or missing and presumed killed—a fatality rate of 45.5%. With odds like that, it would be no surprise if there were as few atheists in cockpits as there were in foxholes; and indeed, many airmen faced their dangerous missions with beliefs and rituals ranging from the traditional to the outlandish. Military historian S. P. MacKenzie considers this phenomenon in Flying against Fate, a pioneering study of the important role that superstition played in combat flier morale among the Allies in World War II. Mining a wealth of documents as well as a trove of published and unpublished memoirs and diaries, MacKenzie examines the myriad forms combat fliers' superstitions assumed, from jinxes to premonitions. Most commonly, airmen carried amulets or talismans—lucky boots or a stuffed toy; a coin whose year numbers added up to thirteen; counterintuitively, a boomerang. Some performed rituals or avoided other acts, e.g., having a photo taken before a flight. Whatever seemed to work was worth sticking with, and a heightened risk often meant an upsurge in superstitious thought and behavior. MacKenzie delves into behavior analysis studies to help explain the psychology behind much of the behavior he documents—not slighting the large cohort of crew members and commanders who demurred. He also looks into the ways in which superstitious behavior was tolerated or even encouraged by those in command who saw it as a means of buttressing morale. The first in-depth exploration of just how varied and deeply felt superstitious beliefs were to tens of thousands of combat fliers, Flying against Fate expands our understanding of a major aspect of the psychology of war in the air and of World War II.
Download or read book Oral History Interviews written by State Government Oral History Program (Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Typed Transcript of an Oral History Interview with Ralph Dean written by Idaho State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Oral History with Ralph Winters written by Ralph E. Winters and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oral History Interview written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollections of Pierre S. du Pont. The interviews were conducted by Ed Edwin of the Columbia University Oral History Research Office on four occasions during 1982.
Download or read book Oral History Interview with Roswell L Gilpatric written by Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interview of Roswell L. Gilpatric conducted by Sharon Zane for The Metropolitan Museum of Art Oral History Project.
Download or read book Oral History Interview with Hon Leon D Ralph 1991 written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon Ralph discusses Democratic party politics, specifically legislation he sponsored, his personal opinions and relationships with fellow politicians, particularly his disagreements with Speaker Willie Brown.
Download or read book Oral History Interview with Harry S Parker written by Harry S. Parker and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oral history interview of Harry S. Parker conducted by Sharon Zane for The Metropolitan Museum of Art Oral History Project.
Download or read book Oral History Interview with Karl Kortum 1996 January 12 written by Maxine Kortum Durney and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oral History Interview with William B Macomber written by William Butts Macomber and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interview of William B. Macomber conducted by Sharon Zane for The Metropolitan Museum of Art Oral History Project.
Download or read book Oral History Interview written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion of Pratt's growing up in Portland, his early education, the Depression, serving in the Navy, coming to Reed, majoring in economics, veterans, G.I. Bill, The Young Republications of Eastmoreland, Wayne Morse, humanities, grades, studying, 1414 Lambert Street, dances, smoking, Korean War, 1948 earthquake, elections, attending the University of Washington graduate school for a year, working at Boeing in industrial engineering with computers, and in computer systems at Tektronix and other companies. Pratt talked about faculty members Art Leigh, Dorothy Johansen, Read Bain, Maure Goldschmidt, Cyclone Covey, and Ralph Macy; and about students Marshall Kolin, Bill Axford, Joe Frazier, Jim Dewey, Ed Harper, Charles Hawkins, and Gary Snyder.
Download or read book Oral History Interview with Helen Ralph written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She discusses child care in the Kaiser shipyards. Ralph began her work with children in one of the childcare centers in Vanport City. She began in 1943 after she graduated from Oregon State University where she majored in Home Economics. She reflects that she would have preferred to work at a Kaiser childcare center because they could afford to hire the best staff and worked in the best conditions. Ralph goes on to discuss the community's views on childcare centers (thought is was essentially babysitting and didn't understand the necessity). After her year in Vanport, Ralph went to SanFrancisco and continued in childcare there. She compares the conditions of the two cities and the change in demographics among their inhabitants and the children she cared for during the war.
Download or read book Oral History Collections written by Ruth McMullin and published by New York : Bowker. This book was released on 1975 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oral History Interview with Robert Irwin written by Robert Irwin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interview of Robert Irwin conducted 2013 February 9-May 11, by Matthew Simms, for the Archives of American Art's U.S. General Services Administration, Design for Excellence and the Arts oral history project, at Irwin's home in San Diego, California.
