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Posted on 08/14/2004 11:32:17 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
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 The Kiss and more It seems as if everybody's claiming to be the sailor--or the nurse he's kissing--in the famous photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt for LIFE magazine 50 years ago on V-J Day, August 14, 1945. The most recent claimant is Carl "Moose" Muscarello, an ex-cop from New York, who has been identified by the self-proclaimed then-nurse, Edith Shain as the man who kissed her in Times Square. They've appeared on television last week to broadcast their claims. But LIFE magazine has never identified the couple in the historic embrace--and probably never will. In the past, some dozen ex-sailors have claimed to be the amorous seaman. And at least two other former nurses have identified themselves as his partner in Eisenstaedt's classic image.  From the August 1980 issue of LIFE, EDITH SHAIN SAYS SHE'S THE V-J DAY NURSE Who was the Nurse? Edith Shain had just begun her nursing career when she went to see the V-J Day melee--and was promptly set upon. Then single, she was unastonished--"at that time in my life everyone was kissing me." She recognized herself in LIFE but kept her secret. "I didn't think it was dignified but times have changed." Now, a teacher, part-time nurse and a grandmother, Mrs. Shain, Eisie says, is the "vivacious, lovely woman." WHO IS THE KISSING SAILOR? Our story so far: It all started coming back to pretty Edith Shain as she studied once more the famous picture of the nurse being embraced by the sailor there in Times Square that glorious V-J Day 35 years ago. She decided the time had come to declare her identity as the woman in Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph. Eisie, delighted with the discovery, flew to Beverly Hills to photograph Edith as she appears today at 62--and that story ran in LIFE in August, 1980, along with a request for the real sailor to please step forward. Thus it was that memories stirred old seafaring hearts across the land, moments of danger and tossing seas and those too-brief winsome moments ashore. Then, most vividly, that unforgetable day--August 15, 1945--when any swabbie worth his bell-bottoms kissed any girl within reach.  No fewer than 10 sailors, as well as two more nurses, have managed to recall to the last detail how it happened and how they happened to be in Times Square--persuading us that all their stories are true. But who is in the picture?       |
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on August 15:
1432 Luigi Pulci Italy, poet (Morgante)
1688 Frederick-William I king of Prussia (1713-1740)
1769 Napoleon Bonaparte resident of Elba (emperor 1804-13, 1814-15)
1771 Sir Walter Scott Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake)
1785 Thomas De Quincey Eng, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater)
1803 Sir James Douglas father of British Columbia
1823 Orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1845 Walter Crane England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast)
1856 J Keir Hardie 1st Labour representative in British Parliament
1875 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast)
1878 Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron/general (White Armies, WW II)
1879 Ethel Barrymore Phila, actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green)
1888 T.E. Lawrence Tremadoc Wales, soldier/writer (aka Lawrence of Arabia)
1892 Louis-Victor due de Broglie France, physicist (Nobel 1929)
1898 Lillian Carter Pres Carter's mom
1901 Arias Arnulfo 3 time president of Panama (1940-41, 49-51, 68)
1904 Bill Baird Grand Is Nebr, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie, Muppet Show)
1912 Julia Child Pasadena Calif, chef (French Chef)
1920 Huntz Hall actor (Cyclone, Gas Pump Girls, The Rating Game)
1923 Rose Marie NYC, actress (Sally Rogers-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1924 Phyllis Schlafly St Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president
1925 Mike Connors Fresno Calif, actor (Joe Mannix-Mannix, Night Kill)
1926 Georgiann Johnson Decorah Iowa, actress (Marge-Mr Peepers)
1933 Lori Nelson Santa Fe NM, actress (Greta-How to Marry a Millionaire)
1935 Abby Dalton Las Vegas NV, actress (Joey Bishop Show)
1935 Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr civil rights activist
1941 Don Rich Olympia Wash, guitarist/country singer (Hee Haw)
1944 Linda Ellerbee Bryan Texas, newscaster (NBC News Overnight)
1945 Gene Upshaw NFL guard (Oakland), NFLPA leader
1946 Jimmy Webb Elk City Okla, songwriter (MacArthur Park, Up Up & Away)
1947 Gerald Velez congas (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1947 Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr Macon Ga, USN/astro (STS 33)
1950 Princess Anne England (daughter of Queen Elizabeth II)
1950 Tess Harper actress (Tender Mercies)
1955 Larry Mathews Burbank Calif, actor (Ritchie-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1967 F DeLorme Roche Jr. Roanoke, Virginia. Bartender extrodinaire (Guru of life, love & Libation)
Morning Cannoneer No. 4.
IMHO, the cost of not dropping the bomb and invading the Home Islands would have been mind staggering.
Good Morning Aeronaut
Morning alfa6.
Working on Sunday. :-(
Even the Lord rested one day a week. Of course He didn't have to pay bills and taxes. :-)
Morning snopercod. Hope your FIL enjoys the thread.
Morning ken5050.
Cool.
Between the Peterson case, Hurricane Charley and Kobe Bryant, I didn't think VJ Day even got a mention in any news I saw. :-(
Morning GailA. It finnaly turned cool here, only hit the 80's late in the day yesterday.
Morning E.G.C.
mother of course remembers VJ day & says it was STRANGE!
she was on a troop train (headed to see my dad who was with the USAAF in AZ) when a man got on the train yelling that the "JAPS QUIT"! NOBODY paid him any mind & the party went ON & ON.
when the train got to El Paso, a man got on the train with a copy of the EP Daily Sun & then mother said the party abruptly ended & "it was quiet as a mouse for the rest of the trip".
free dixie,sw
Good story ... my great-uncle was on a ship ready to attack Japan on August 14!
One of my friends in grammer school had a dad who had spent the war in the Italian Theatre and was being shipped to Japan for the invasion. He never once doubted the decision to drop the bomb.
Morning Mayor. Nice Parable this morning.
BTW for those of you who use Windows XP as do I, I'll let you know that Microsoft is going to start relasing their XP SP 2 to the automatic updates starting tommorow.
I've been reading all sort of storiess here at FR and at other message boards from those who've had experiences with XP SP 2. We'll see how everything turns out in the upcoming days.
The budget is a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, and then tries to reach in and pull real beans out."
"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."
"I never met a man I didn't like,"
Will Rogers never met John Kerry
Good Morning Feather.
Morning stand watie.
VJ-Day had to be one of those "I remember exactly where I was" days like the Kennedy assassination, the Space Shuttle disasters , 911 or Christmas in Cambodia.
Thanks Valin.
Were these good experiences or bad experiences with SP 2?
Yea working on a Sunday, this is my built in overtime day on the schedule. 8 hours of today are O/T, big whoope.
One of these days I am going to have to win a lottery and retire. Sure thing, I will probaly find an envelope with my name on it containing a large sum of money in small unmarked bills too :-}
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
FYI, i was born about 9 months after VJ day.
free dixie,sw
Just love VJ day! Dad was a WWII vet, and until the day he dies, he celebrated this day!
I have something to celebrate this fine Sunday as well. On Friday the 13th, I went to the hospital to have a cardiac cath. done. I'd had one done back in 2000 and three significan blockages were found and stented. Of course, the follow on stuff with the medical insurance happened. You know...raised rates, "pre-existing condition" clauses kicked into effect, stuff like that.
Long story short...I'm clear!!! All arteries fully open; stents holding just fine! In and out in a day!
To those of you without CAD, this is small news indeed. To those of us with CAD, it is good news indeed!
So...today it's back to normal exercise!
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