![AN UNCENSORED WORLD](/images/headline/2054.png) Uncensored takes readers from New York City to Spain to Havana in search of dirt. ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_01.jpg)
Uncensored returns to Pulp Intl. for the first time in over a year with an issue published this month in 1955. The story of Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra’s tumultuous relationship (and the Spanish bullfighter who helped ruin it) has been covered numerous times, so no need to get into it again just now, but the photos are certainly worth a look. Uncensored shares other nice images as well. There’s Eartha Kitt (described as not much to look at “unlike such Negro beauties as Dorothy Dandridge and Lena Horne”), Sarita Montiel (who in Mexico was allegedly on the receiving end of a horsewhipping by Miguel Aleman’s jealous wife), and Marlene Dietrich (seen both onstage performing and offstage fulfilling a G.I.’s request for a kiss). The latter photo, from 1945, appeared in Life and many other magazines and remains one of the most famous Dietrich images. So Hollywood starlets take note: if you want millions of dollars in free publicity, no need to get arrested or leak nude photos—just kiss a fan. Uncensored readers also meet Father Divine, (who we wrote about here), his alleged rival Prophet Jones, get a glimpse of nightlife in the so-called Bohemia of NYC’s Greenwich Village, and are introduced to “The World’s Hottest Hot Spot,” Havana, Cuba. Readers see photos of an actual drug deal taking place on some backstreet and learn that the city is “Babylonian bedlam,” where “one can buy marijuana, cocaine, forbidden wormwood liquor, illegal bon bons, or just oblivion.” There’s a photo of a woman outside a revolving repository at Havana’s Orfanato Beneficia (Beneficia Orphanage) where mothers could leave their unwanted babies as easily as mailing a postcard. The caption on the photo? “Despite its bawdiness, Havana has a heart.” A baby depository? Is it any wonder there was a revolution? Twenty-four scans below for your enjoyment. ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_25.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_20.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_21.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_22.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_23.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/an_uncensored_world_24.jpg)
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
2003—Hope Dies
Film legend Bob Hope dies of pneumonia two months after celebrating his 100th birthday. 1945—Churchill Given the Sack
In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect
Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives. 1952—Evita Peron Dies
Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974. 1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945.
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