Robertm Yoder News Today

In 1948, the Post profiled Victor Borge, a concert pianist turned comedian, which is something entirely different from a comedian imitating a concert pianist.

In the News for the week ending February 10, 2023, are the Grammy awards, mail-order heroin, Super Bowl recipes, Burt Bacharach, and more.

Some things haven’t changed in 75 years: In 1947, Robert Yoder wrote about parents on Christmas Eve frantically striving to put together toys that came in many baffling bits.

This excerpt is from “The Washing Machine Goes Juke-Box” by Robert M. Yoder, May 4, 1946. It was a sort of cafeteria, serve-yourself establishment, where women could do the family washing in machines that operated on the quarter-in-the-slot basis. The only thing that could go wrong was the whole idea of doing the washing in a public place. Most of the men they talked to agreed that women would never go for it. After all, the old reproach about washing one’s dirty linen in public suggests ...