![]() Andy Pandy and the Eagle comic debuted, as did Schultz’s Peanuts, to rather more longevity than Crusader Rabbit, the first animated television series. ![]() ![]() Listen With Mother was the first daily programme for children and made the Berceuse from Fauré’s Dolly Suite synonymous with childhood. Popular culture favoured the young in 1950, and leisure was in. While the world events of 1950 were tumultuous, with Indian independence, the outbreak of the Korean War, the founding of the Stasi in East Germany and the passing of the first apartheid laws in South Africa, the French foreign minister’s proposal for a European Coal and Steel Community was the first step towards the European Union and a genuine healing of Europe’s war wounds. The birth of the package holiday, when entrepreneur Vladimir Raitz sent 11 tourists to a campsite on Corsica on a government-surplus Dakota DC3 in May also indicated a broadening of horizons. Sainsbury’s opened the first American-style ‘self-service’ supermarket in Croydon in July, the launch of the Kenwood Chef food processor marked a new era in domestic mod cons and Elizabeth David’s A Book of Mediterranean Food hinted at a food culture revolution. The eight London New Towns had already been designated and were symbols of a promised post-war British utopia. The wartime decade was finally being left behind as Britain hit mid-century, and the future was coming fast. ![]()
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