where do you find good news?

[Meli]

I had a lady in last week trying to write a 70th birthday speach for a friend.
She was trying to find positive world news events for August 1942.

It's damm hard.
Apart from "bambi" being released in the UK (was this good?)

Got me thinking.
All the good things that happened on "bad dates" ( dont) are buried under the weight of bad news.
There must be a tremendously positive thing that happened somewhere in the world that counter balances Every single catastrophe date.

Just try to find some reasonably big good news event for 1 sept 1939.

Betcha cant

[Phillip Allen]

Fritz got off Herman's wife and never came back?

[Mad Scientist]

Archives of newspapers and news magazines, perhaps?

I like a challenge; will search for good news for Aug '42 and 1 Sept '39.

(And I'll bet that editors were hard-pressed to find good news in those times, too.)

Getting late here, time for bed!

Tom

[Domesticated_Mr. Know It All]

Katie Webster was born on that day and dispite what she says I think that was a good thing.








source---> http://www.historyorb.com/birthdays/september/1

[Meli]

well unless a soothsayer was also an editor??
Born on the day dont count

[Vince Brennan]

Ay! '42 was NOT the brightest of all years in the annals of Australia!

Those of us who understand (however dimly) the travails and fears endured by your parents (or Grand-parents) can only offer our thanks for your fore-bear's DC's in the face of some bloody frightening odds.

WELL DONE! The lot o 'ye!

I will have MORE to say about these atrocities



I learn about this...

and now I am become.....

I am now ashamed

[purri]

Stalingrad, Milne Bay or Kokoda anyone?

[Meli]

I give up

[Bruce Taylor]

Here's a list of newspaper archives. Many are free: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...paper_archives

Going through old archives like this is slow and effortful...I chose the Winnipeg Tribune at random and looked at a few days worth of news from August of 1942. The front pages were uniformly bleak. The happiest story I saw was that three of five Irish quintuplets were "doing well." Also, it seems a member of the Cameron Highlanders had captured a German prisoner and made the guy carry his wounded buddy back to camp

However, if you browse your way back to the Women's News, things get a bit happier. Deeper in, I found illustrated Magic Tricks for kids...and the funnies weren't bad. Good luck.