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The fashionable Derby hat has evolved from a traditional accessory into a sculptural investment piece. With women spending an average of $510 (and luxury pieces hitting $4,300), the millinery economy is a high-growth sector of the weekend. Trends for 2026 show a shift toward "Sophisticated Stamina," where architectural hats are paired with block heels and wedges, proving that style now requires a strategy. Source: https://www.twinspires.com/edge/racing/kentucky-derby/the-151-year-pivot-how-data-is-redefining-the-kentucky-derby-infographic/ submitted by /u/TwinSpires to r/KentuckyDerby [link] [comments]

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Dannielynn Birkhead’s outfit at the Barnstable Brown Gala on May 2 was extremely sentimental. The 18-year-old wore her late mom, Anna Nicole Smith’s dress to the event taking place during the Kentucky Derby weekend. Dannielynn teared up as she told Access Hollywood’s digital guest correspondent Lauren Herbert how meaningful it is to wear the dress. “I can’t know my mom sadly, and this is one of the only reasons and ways I can. This is the closest I’ll ever be getting to a hug from her so I’ve been on and off tears the whole day,” she emotionally told Access as she hugged her dad. In fact, the black dress is what Anna Nicole was wearing when she met Larry Birkhead at the Barnstable Brown Gala. “Just to see her and have it be a full circle moment for me is special,” he said. submitted by /u/AbsolutelyIris to r/Fauxmoi [link] [comments]

Partners divided by prison walls find ways to forge intimacy For the incarcerated, even the ways they fortify their romantic relationships are policed, surveilled, and monetized by Tamar Sarai July 31st, 2024 “I can’t even put into words how much I miss you,” says a caller right before dedicating a message to her husband. But despite the feeling that her words may fail to capture the depth of her longing, she still tries, along with the dozens of loved ones who leave weekly messages with “Calls From Home.” The radio station WMMT receives calls every Monday night from partners, spouses, children, parents, and friends of people incarcerated across Central Appalachia. The “Calls From Home” radio show later plays these calls, averaging about 50 messages each Monday night. WMMT’s local radio signal reaches seven correctional centers in Kentucky and Virginia, as well as smaller local jails and detention centers. Listeners inside use MP3 players and radios to hear these messages and song dedications from their loved ones. Loved ones share updates both big and small, from a wife recalling a funny anecdote about their son to a girlfriend’s update on how graduate school is going. “I couldn’t do it without you,” she says across the airwaves. Some callers simply recount their daily routine, while others note their anticipation about an upcoming in-person visit. Some use the space to make amends and offer reassurance, including one woman who assured her fiancé that their bond remains strong despite a recent argument. Calls are at times filled with levity; this is particularly true when updating a loved one about recent events in pop culture, sports, and music. More often than not, the calls are laced with longing and uncertainty about when they will be able to speak to one another again. That anxiety is made worse by the fact that so much of prison communication operates as a one-way street. These WMMT radio messages, for example, can only be placed from the outside in, just as telephone calls can only be made from prison to a list of recipients on the outside. Prison email is one of the few free-flowing methods of communicating, but in addition to it being costly, it also depends on technology that is often unreliable and, ultimately, under the control of the facility’s leadership. In a recent broadcast, numerous callers mentioned that they knew their loved ones’ prison tablets had been taken away, cutting off their ability to send emails to one another. But “Calls From Home” is a stark reminder that love is not just about worry or concern—even as those facets are particularly resonant for those with a partner inside prison. Love is also about sharing the mundane parts of your day, bits and pieces of information that could not be more irrelevant to the public but mean the entire world to whomever the message was intended for. The show also illustrates the creative strategies romantic partners separated by incarceration must use to remain connected to their significant others. Meanwhile, couples who share their love across prison walls in parts of the country far outside of WMMT’s range have to employ other methods to preserve intimacy while navigating a system that constantly seeks to police and deny it. “Not even a little peck” Over the past 25 years, there has been a gradual decline in states that offer extended visitations, most commonly known as “conjugal visits.” While in the late 1990s, 17 states offered some kind of extended visitation program primarily for couples, today it’s only California, Connecticut, New York, and Washington. The pandemic halted some of the programs in these states, and many were slow to reestablish, even as the country opened back up. For those living in states without overnight or multiday visitation programs, in-person visits last just a couple of hours or, in some cases, even less—and all take place under the watchful eye of correctional officers. While policies vary from state to state and facility to facility, many prisons restrict lingering hugs, open-mouth kissing, or even holding hands. Partners who try to sneak moments of intimacy risk their visits being terminated and the prospect of future visits forfeited. Thus, even in the company of a loved one, real closeness is elusive. The often remote locations of prisons across the country also means that when visitation is available, it might require hours of travel. Kentucky’s Northpoint Training Center, a medium-security facility in Boyle County, is a roughly hour and a half drive from Louisville and an hour from the state capital of Frankfurt. The facility allows four in-person visits per month and only during preapproved time slots. While these visits have a two-hour time limit, Northpoint allows longer visits for those who have traveled farther. Michael, who is using a pseudonym, is currently incarcerated at Northpoint. He told Prism that his partner must travel two hours from Indiana to visit. The brevity of the moments they physically share can be agonizing compared to the time spent in travel. “I am not allowed to give or receive a kiss from my wife, not even a little peck on the forehead or cheek—just a timed 10-second hug,” said Michael in an interview conducted via J-Pay, the facility’s email service. Michael explained that contact is not allowed during the remainder of his visits outside of the timed hugs. This makes the fact that visitors are scanned and sometimes even strip-searched particularly difficult to stomach. “It don’t seem right to me that they have a body scanner right there and scan you in,” noted Michael. “It feels degrading just to see my wife that I can’t even touch but for 10 seconds in front of the C.O.” Andy Passmore, who is also incarcerated at Northpoint, reiterated the highs and lows of in-person visits shared with his fiancé Haley, who is often joined by his mother and sister. “I love to see Haley, but it kills me seeing them bring my ID and saying time is up,” said Passmore. “But overall they are nice. Momma makes sure to bring 20 dollars in quarters to get things out of the vending machines, and we just talk about any and everything under the sun.” However, the ease and bliss of those visits is tempered by the heavy restrictions that govern them. “When they come in they are in a 3×3 square box you can stand in, and you’re allowed a three-second hug, and that’s it. No kissing or anything of that nature,” said Passmore via J-pay. “You sit with a small table in between you, and I’ve got to remain sitting at all times. I can’t get up; my feet have to stay on the floor. I can’t cross my legs or anything, and my hands have to stay above the table at all times. They are very strict here, so I abide by the rules because I don’t want the visit canceled, so I don’t do anything to jeopardize my time.” Making visits can require extensive advanced planning for both those on the outside and their incarcerated loved ones. For one, visitation lists in states like Kentucky can only be updated twice a year at specific times of the year. New visitors must fill out an information form and mail it to the facility’s warden to finalize their approval. On the day of the visit, visitors—particularly women—must abide by Northpoint’s strict dress code or else run the risk of not being able to move forward with their visit. The facility bans visitors from wearing earrings, more than one necklace, facial jewelry, watches, low-cut or “provocative” clothing, leggings, skirts or shorts higher than 2 inches above the knee, ripped jeans, and open-toe shoes. The gradual process of learning these rules and regulations was closely studied by sociologist Megan Comfort in her 2008 book, “Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison.” In her work, Comfort discusses the “repercussive effects” of mass incarceration on families whose loved ones were incarcerated in California’s San Quentin prison. Comfort draws on the idea of “prisonization,” a concept coined by sociologist Donald Clemmer that describes how incarcerated people gradually adapt to the carceral environment by learning its lexicon, changing their behavior and appearance, and understanding its demands and expectations. Comfort expands this concept beyond the walls of the prison and describes how women with an incarcerated partner undergo “secondary prisonization,” meaning that they too are absorbed into the prison system as they alter the rhythms of their day-to-day life to accommodate prison rules, policies, and schedules. In an essay on her research, Comfort describes how prisonization takes shape in the lives of women with incarcerated partners, writing that “women who couldn’t afford a separate wardrobe of prison-specific outfits started to consider, ‘Can I wear this into San Quentin?’ before purchasing any new item of clothing. In time, their everyday clothes were ‘penitentiary clothes,’ conforming to the regulations imposed by the correctional authorities … Their daily routines became synchronized with the institution’s timetable, more attuned to administrative requirements than the comfort and convenience of non-incarcerated women and children.” People with an incarcerated loved one might also reorganize their work, social, or child care schedules around prison’s visiting hours. As heard in the many “Call from Home” messages, partners often adjust their sleep schedules to ensure that they are awake in case their partner calls. “I miss you like really bad,” noted a recent caller to her husband, before dedicating Toni Braxton’s “How Many Ways” to him. “I have my phone stuck to me in case you call.” The struggle to connect For Passmore, when in-person visits don’t provide enough time to discuss all that he wants with his partner, he uses calls and email messages—a self-described “luxury” that others aren’t always able to access—to catch up in the interim. Northpoint recently provided tablets to people inside, but the prison shuts the tablets off in the evenings. These interim hours can feel particularly lonely. “Nights in here are the worst,” said Passmore. “They are often quiet and that is when my mind wanders, and the loneliness takes over and almost drives me insane.” Families and couples often rely upon video visits, email messages, written letters, and packages to remain connected. Physical mail has the benefit of being more sentimental, though increasingly less so—packages can be denied if the items inside fail to abide by strict standards, and more facilities have begun to ban physical letters, cards, and pictures, instead opting to scan them and send duplicates to the incarcerated recipient. The mail-scanning technology used by prison systems is often offered by the same vendors that provide prison email and phone services, such as Securus. While the policy is said to limit the flow of contraband items that could be smuggled in via paper mail, studies analyzing at least two states that have adopted the practice have found that it has little to no effect on drug use or overdoses inside their prisons. Meanwhile, telecommunication services may be faster than snail mail and packages, but in prison these digital tools only appear similar to technologies the public uses on the outside. Often, they are far less sophisticated. There’s also the extraordinarily high costs to consider, and potential glitches can make staying in contact feel more taxing. Robert Kidwell, who has been incarcerated at Northpoint for six years, says he and his partner share video visits during the weekdays that last about 25 minutes and cost roughly $5. At Northpoint, three video visits are allowed per week. “We usually try to call at least two times a week and email sometimes four times a week,” said Kidwell. “And yes, the cost does play into this, as my fiancé works and takes care of two wonderful girls, so money is tight. Often I send them stuff through the mail.” Even for those who do have the funds to make consistent calls or send emails, the infrastructure of prison messaging and call platforms is unreliable at best. To connect with incarcerated sources as part of this reporting, it took Prism almost an hour to create a Securus account, upload credit card information, and purchase “stamps” to send emails. A pack of stamps costs $3.50, and there’s a $3 processing fee per transaction. Each message must be sent using one stamp, and users on the outside have an option of sending an additional stamp for their recipient to use when they reply. Constant error messages only made matters worse. Prison emails are also subject to censorship. For example, guards at Northpoint read every email that enters the facility. This can slow down correspondence, interrupt the flow of conversations, and also erode a couple’s privacy and ability to send more personal messages to one another. Family members, advocates, and other journalists have noted similar glitches in setting up video calls, often lamenting about the anxiety induced by the thought of their incarcerated loved one waiting for them at the other end of the line as they struggle to connect. Sending a message or making a video call via Securus is far more difficult than calling a friend on FaceTime or sending an iMessage; it requires both tenacity and tech savvy just to navigate the process. The private equity firm Platinum Equity purchased Securus for $1.6 billion in November 2017. Almost immediately the company found itself in a tailspin of negative press and relentless pushback from prison phone justice advocates, notably those within the Connecting Families coalition that advocates for free prison phone calls and expanded prison visitation. Despite a slew of Connecting Families campaign wins, the pandemic was a saving grace for Securus, as in-person prison visits were indefinitely suspended and more families were forced to rely solely on video visitation services. In 2020, Securus saw a 10% —or almost $70 million—increase in revenue. The pivot toward video services and phone calls necessitated by the pandemic allowed Securus to present itself as providing a winning solution for families required to adhere to social distancing protocols. This transition also benefited an unsavory policy that the company had previously unsuccessfully attempted to establish. In 2015, Securus announced that it was rolling back a controversial contract stipulation that required prisons using its video visitation services to ban in-person visits. After public uproar, former Securus CEO Richard Smith released a statement detailing how, upon review of their contract language for video visitation, the company “found that in ‘a handful’ of cases” Securus was “writing in language that could be perceived as restricting onsite and/or person-to-person contact at the facilities that we serve.” The company has since eliminated that language from facility contracts and now defers to rules set by each facility regarding in-person and video visitation. However, two recent lawsuits from Michigan families with incarcerated loved ones in Genesee and St. Clair counties allege that Securus as well as its competitor Global Tel Link (GTL) conspired with county sheriffs to ban in-person visitation while splitting profits from forced use of telecommunication alternatives. The lawsuits name as defendants Genesee and St. Clair County sheriffs, GTL, Securus, and each of the company’s owners, as well as Platinum Equity, the private equity firm that manages Securus. Taken together, the litigation efforts have come to be known as the Right to Hug campaign. Live for the moment The threat of losing in-person visitation and the fervor with which families have fought to preserve or restore them underscore how much touch deprivation impacts partners whose romantic relationships are divided by prison walls. “The most challenging part of keeping our relationship strong is the lack of physical contact,” wrote Passmore. “We were very close and spent many days together without being apart. We thrived on this. We now live for the moment when we can be together again.” That desire for physical contact includes and also extends beyond sex, although discourse around “conjugal visits” tends to focus almost exclusively on sex in ways that are salacious and limiting. “She and I share our dreams and goals, which drives our passion to be together,” said Passmore. “We share common goals and interests. She supports me in all my escapades. We share the love of crash derbies. With us it is more than sex. We love the old-fashioned front porch talking and rocking. I guess we are old-fashioned to an extent.” Just as Passmore noted the acute loneliness that strikes at night, other men at Northpoint Training Center highlighted holidays and birthdays as times of the year when they most long to be with their loved ones. The brevity and at times infrequency of visits shared both online and in-person can also present a snag for couples who find themselves needing to broach difficult conversations. In her 2020 book, “The Shadow System,” journalist Sylvia Harvey discusses some of the unexpected ways that prison can shape the emotional connection between children and their incarcerated partners. Harvey notes that due to the brevity of visits, it’s often less likely that children will bring up serious life problems because there isn’t enough time to divulge intimate details and then resolve the problems. Since it’s unlikely they will be able to “recover and return to normal,” many children choose not to bring up thorny topics at all. This dynamic is similar to the negotiations that people with incarcerated partners must make. “The most challenging part of relationships is not being able to be there when something goes bad for them out there or when they just need to be held and comforted,” shared Kidwell. But couples deepening their relationships across prison walls still develop strategies to help curb some of these difficulties. For some, it means using calls and emails to their advantage and observing the ways that a lack of physical touch can heighten their appreciation for other parts of their partner. “As for the romantic life, a lot of people think you can’t have romance while in prison, but you still can in different ways, whether it be the way you have a phone conversation or even through emails—you just have to be creative,” said Kidwell. “And people think that prison ends relationships, and for some it does, but for others [like me] it gave me a chance to get to know someone on a different level not based on looks or money, but on honesty and openness.” Kidwell said he keeps all of the messages and pictures sent by his partner whom he’s been with for over a year, the mementos serving as a reminder of what he has to look forward to when he gets out. Creating pet names, sending handwritten cards, and fielding requests for drawings are other personal and sentimental ways that Kidwell stays in touch with his partner. One of the most important albeit difficult ways that couples fortify their bonds is discussing what they anticipate life will look like when they are free to be together again. Dreaming together about a shared future after release—a practice surely more challenging the longer the sentence is—can help instill a sense of normalcy. It also provides the kind of levity necessary to bridge an otherwise impossible distance. “We both are counting down the days when I can get home,” said Passmore. “We have been planning to get married and expand our family. You’re gonna think I’m crazy, but we have already come up with where we want to get married, and we have also thrown out names to each other for our future child—both boy and girl names. We talk a lot about our future and what all we want to see done and things we want to do around the house. I’ve got a huge ‘honey do list’ when I get home.” The article is posted at https://prismreports.org/2024/07/31/partners-divided-prison-forge-intimacy/ submitted by /u/Sea-Celebration-7565 to r/prisonhusbands [link] [comments]

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For awhile now I've been trying to put the show into some kind of order. I'm still working on it, but I thought I would share my progress and get peoples opinons. These are the just notations on the episode and the probably time they take place. Season 1 01 Pilot The date given in the Pilot is KOREA 1950; however, the front lines in Korea 1950 were not near Uijeongbu/Seoul but near Pusan. Likewise, no other dates are given in the series until the arrival of Colonel Sherman Potter on September 19, 1952 - -still showing MASH 4077 in the same place, which is improbable, given the fact that Mobile Army hospitals had to stay behind the shifting front lines in order to care for the wounded. 02 To Market, to Market Hydrocortisone was first identified by Kendall and Mason in 1949, for which discovery they were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950. The pilot episode of M*A*S*H began with the subscript Korea, 1950 and all dates specified in the first and second season set the show in 1951. An article in Popular Science suggests the drug was used at least as early as June 1951.Cortisone is also mentioned in the US Army’s official medical history of the Korean War. So its appearance here is plausible. 03 Requiem for a Lightweight 04 Chief Surgeon Who? 05 The Moose 06 Yankee Doodle Doctor 07 Bananas, Crackers and Nuts 08 Cowboy Henry mentions that his wife has a fistful of credit cards. Before the 1950s, credit cards were issued by individual merchants and only valid at one store or for one chain. That would explain why Henry’s wife would have a fistful. The first modern credit card, Diner’s Club, was only introduced in 1950. If Henry’s wife had one, she would be an early adopter. 09 Henry, Please Come Home While faking his illness, Radar is shown to be reading Captain Savage #10, a comic from January 1969. The episode, of course, is set in 1951. 10 I Hate a Mystery 11 Germ Warfare Going by air date order, this is the last episode to feature Spearchucker as a character. 12 Dear Dad Christmas Episode, This episode is set in the winter, yet in the field surgery scene, the soldiers in the foxhole appear to be dressed as for summer. In fact, the real Christmas 1950 in Korea was quite different. In the south, the US Forces were holding their own in the Pusan Perimeter. In the north, the Marines and US Army were still in combat in harsh conditions and below-freezing weather. 13 Edwina 14 Love Story 15 Tuttle 16 The Ringbanger 17 Sometimes You Hear the Bullet 18 Dear Dad...Again The character of Captain Casey was inspired by the life of Ferdinand Waldo Demara who impersonated a ship’s doctor on board a Canadian destroyer during the Korean War. In 1951, he performed surgery successfully on a number of casualties, including one with a serious chest wound. But he was exposed when his life-saving exploit was published in the Canadian newspapers. His life story was fictionalized in the Tony Curtis Movie The Great Impostor. This gag was repeated by Private Schaeffer in Fade Out, Fade In, Part 1 who posed as a lawyer and tried to convince Klinger that he could get the Corporal his much-sought-after Section 8. 19 The Long-John Flap Winter Episode 20 The Army-Navy Game A 1973 episode of M*A*S*H referenced a fictional Army-Navy game that ended 42-36 Navy. To this day, no Army-Navy game has ended with that score. The radio announcer in the episode says the game is the 53rd Army-Navy game. That game was played in 1952; Navy won, 7-0. The game itself was played on November 29 1952 thus placing this episode on that date. Also, according to a weather website, it was about 40 degrees F at the time which fits with what we see on screen, give or take a bit. What the announcer says may be false, but the game was real and that’s when it took place, which places that episode at that time frame. 21 Sticky Wicket 22 Major Fred C. Dobbs 23 Cease-Fire 24 Showtime The Stars and Stripes newspaper which Burns reads at the end of the episode contains the following story titles and comes from the Pacific edition, April 19, 1949. Either an anachronism or, like a doctor’s waiting room, they read really old newspapers. Henry’s son is born in this episode, that means he has been in country for at least 8.5 months Season 2 01 Divided We Stand 02 5 O’Clock Charlie The exploits of 5 O’Clock Charlie are loosely based on flights of Bed-Check Charlies, obsolete North Korean biplanes which made night time raids on UN targets. Read thru Dr. Apel’s book as it references this event. 03 Radar’s Report Timeline Fix: Radar gives the date of his report as Oct 17, 1951. At this stage of the series, this date is still plausible and doesn’t create any problems yet. This date was later used again in A War for All Seasons in which Major Winchester loses bets on the Giants-Dodgers baseball game. 04 For the Good of the Outfit At the end of the episode, Radar reads a letter to Hawkeye from his father. The date of the letter is May 24, 1951. The episode immediately preceding this one, Radar’s Report, gives a date (of the eponymous report) of October 17, 1951. 05 Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde 06 Kim At the beginning of the episode, the P.A. announces the following night’s movie which is Flying Leathernecks starring, according to the announcer, John Wayne, Ward Bond, and Maureen O’Hara. This movie was first released in August 1951, so it is appropriate to the timeline (see date mentioned in Radar’s Report). However, while John Wayne did appear in Flying Leathernecks, Ward Bond and Maureen O’Hara were not in the cast. Fun Fact: One of the movies Radar offers to Col. Blake is Bonzo Runs for President. Bonzo was a chimpanzee who was featured in Bedtime for Bonzo, a 1951 film starring then-actor Ronald Reagan - who would later successfully run for President. (Reagan was governor of California when this episode first aired.) 07 L.I.P. (Local Indigenous Personnel) 08 The Trial of Henry Blake 09 Dear Dad... Three 10 The Sniper 11 Carry On, Hawkeye A flu epidemic hits camp. Attention all personnel. Here is the latest news from Armed Forces Radio: Stockholm: Dr. Ralph Bunche has just won the Noble Peace Prize. Moscow: Josef Stalin announced he has been unanimously reelected ruler of Russia. Paris: the French Army today predicted it would bring a swift end to the Vietnamese War. Detroit: the automobile industry reached its production target of six and a half million cars. Korea: ammunition and material shortages continue to hinder the Allied war effort. Dr Ralph Bunche was a Harvard PhD in Political Science and later Professor of Political Science at Howard University. In the 1940s he helped to draft the United Nations Charter and is considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of the United Nations. In 1946 he joined the United Nations secretariat and in 1948 served as the United Nations chief mediator between the Israelis and Palestinians. It was for this peace-brokering work that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. 12 The Incubator 13 Deal Me Out 14 Hot Lips and Empty Arms 15 Officers Only 16 Henry in Love If Nancy Sue was turning 21 in August, she would have just finished her junior year in college, ostensibly at Ohio State. When she says that it takes her back, it could not have been too far back. 17 For Want of a Boot 18 Operation Noselift Anomaly: Col. Blake tells Pvt. Baker that they showed The Thing and The Blob in the same week. The Thing From Another World came out in 1951, but The Blob didn’t come out until 1958, five years after the Korean War was over. 19 The Chosen People 20 As You Were Among public announcements: Attention. Attention all personnel. No casualties expected for indefinite period. AFRS announces the release of Nazi war criminal Alfred Krupp. Everybody’s going home but us. FACT: Alfred Krupp was released January 31, 1951 21 Crisis 22 George 23 Mail Call 24 A Smattering of Intelligence Season 3 01 The General Flipped at Dawn 02Rainbow Bridge Although the mass exchange of wounded POWs only occurred near the end of the Korean Conflict in 1953, there were numerous contemporary accounts of Chinese troops at the local unit level releasing wounded prisoners, leaving wounded prisoners to be collected or even inviting UN forces to send personnel to collect their wounded 03 Officer of the Day 04 Iron Guts Kelly For the record, in the actual Korean war the only US Generals killed in Korean war in 1950-1951 were Walton Walker (killed December 23, 1950 - auto accident) and Bryant Moore (died of a heart attack February 24, 1951 after a helicopter accident) 05 O.R. 06 Springtime 07 Check-Up 08 Life With Father In trying to determine who the baby’s father might be, Trapper remembers a former colleague: Captain Forrest, a brain surgeon who fell down a lot. Hawkeye dismisses the idea, pointing out that he left two years ago. This could be a reference to Captain Duke Forrest, a major character in both the book and film versions of M*A*S*H, but who was never seen in the TV series. 09 Alcoholics Unanimous The film that opens the episode (and that the M*A*S*H crew watches) is Tin Pan Alley from 1940, starring Alice Faye. 10 There is Nothing Like a Nurse 11 Adam’s Ribs 12 A Full Rich Day 13 Mad Dogs and Servicemen Pinning an accurate date to this episode is difficult. Trapper and Travis’ conversation about Ted Williams being very recently drafted into Korea dates this to May, 1952. (Trapper’s comments about Williams previous season are absolutely accurate: Williams batted .318 in 1951.) Elsewhere, Rosie notes that Ike (i.e., General Dwight Eisenhower) has the Republican nomination sewn up; that would date the episode to sometime in mid-July, during or after the 1952 Republican convention held in Chicago. However, the favourite songs of letter-writer Wanda are The Wayward Wind by Gogi Grant, and Bo Diddley by Bo Diddley -- which were released in 1956 and 1955, respectively. 14 Private Charles Lamb Timeline Facts: The Greek Easter was on April 9 in 1950, April 29 in 1951, and April 20 in 1952. 15 Bombed 16 Bulletin Board At the end of the episode, there’s a remark about Clark Gable’s divorce from Sylvia Ashley, which occurred in April 1952; likewise, there’s a remark about Presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower’s vow to go to Korea if elected President, which happened after his election in December 1952, which is referred in 4/4 The Late Captain Pierce. In 4/3 Change of Command, Potter takes command September 19, 1952. In 4/20 The Novocaine Mutiny, the trial takes place in October 1952. Thus, if M*A*S*H had honestly followed the real Korean conflict timeline, Season 4 would have probably been the last season for the show. The movie the staff watches early in the episode is The Littlest Rebel (1935). Hawkeye reads the announcement to Henry about the First Annual Polly Adler Birthday Cookout, Picnic and Barbeque. Polly Adler was an infamous madame in New York in the 20s and 30s, who was born on April 6, 1900 (which would make the picnic’s date around April 6, 1951) 17 The Consultant 18 House Arrest When Frank formally accuses Hawkeye of assault, he invokes the Articles of War, which at the time defined military law. The Articles of War would be supplanted by the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) when it went into effect on May 31, 1951 after being signed into law by President Truman a year earlier. The invocation of the Articles of War would place the timeline of this episode before May of 1951. Leave Her To Heaven is the movie in this episode. 19 Aid Station 20 Love and Marriage 21 Big Mac MacArthur did indeed visit Korea in real life. However, unlike this episode, he did not wear his sun bleached khakis from World War II -- when in Korea, he rather sensibly wore cold weather clothing. 22 Payday 23 White Gold 24 Abyssinia, Henry I have a message: Lieutenant Colonel... Henry Blake’s plane... was shot down... over the Sea of Japan... It spun in... There were no survivors. Season 4 01Welcome to Korea Part 1 02Welcome to Korea Part 2 The date is given as September 19, 1952. 03 Change of Command Potter implies that he has 18 months to go in his service before he retires. If this episode takes place in September 1952, this means he would be scheduled to retire in February 1954. 04It Happened One Night 05 The Late Captain Pierce President-Elect Dwight D. Eisenhower visited the troops in Korea in December 1952; if MASH had kept to the real Korean War Timeline, it would have only lasted for about one more season, as the Korean Conflict ended in July 1953, 7 months after Eisenhower visited. 06 Hey, Doc 07 The Bus 08 Dear Mildred 09 The Kids 10 Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler? Potter claims he will retire in 17 months, 6 weeks, and 2 days. As he arrives in September 19, 1952, this means he would retire in January 1954; yet in AfterMASH he retires after the Armistice of July 1953. But this is plausible, as early retirement is always an option (in fact, in the Season 6 episode Potter’s Retirement, he announces his plans to retire early after bad reports about him make it to a general friend) and he might have accumulated leave. 11 Dear Peggy Hawkeye reads about Elizabeth Taylor getting married to someone Ni.... Taylor married Conrad Nicky Hilton May 6, 1950. But this is a bit of old newspaper which Peggy had used to stuff a parcel, so it could have been some time ago. Hawkeye thinks Ni... is Vice-President Richard Nixon. Nixon was elected with Eisenhower on November 4, 1952. So this places the timeline somewhere Nov-Dec 1952 or early 1953. This timeline is still plausible for Season 4, given that Potter took command on September 19, 1952 about 7 episodes prior. But it advances the story quite far and doesn’t leave much of the Korean War (which ended in July 1953) for the rest of the seasons. That’s why the timeline will be quietly reset or abandoned later in Season 4. 12 Of Moose and Men 13 Soldier of the Month The rodent-borne hemorrhagic fever in this episode is likely a strain of Hantavirus. This Eurasian strain of the disease causes the symptoms portrayed in the episode—fever, shock, redness of the eyes, kidney failure, and fluid overload. Hantavirus infected more than 3,000 Korean and American troops during the Korean War, and more than 300 of the victims died. In this episode, the hemorrhagic fever is blamed on mites and fleas that preyed on rats; today, scientists know that victims contract this strain of Hantavirus by a bite from an infected rodent, or by inhaling aerosolized rodent’s saliva, urine, or feces that contain the virus. 14 The Gun The P.A. announces that the movie for the night is Kansas City Confidential. This came out in November 11, 1952. So we are in late 1952, early 1953. This is on track and consistent with the last fix in Dear Peggy, but we are hurtling towards the last few months of the Korean War with 7 more seasons to go. The timeline will have to be reset soon. The mention of Eisenhower and Nixon is correct as the Presidential Elections was in November 1952. Potter reads about 80 cadets being expelled from West Point. The actual scandal was in August 1951, when 83 West Point cadets were dismissed for cheating in their exams. So Potter is a year late here. But they probably needed this reference for a bit of deliberate irony; we have just seen Frank show off the stolen gun. 15 Mail Call...Again 16 The Price of Tomato Juice 17 Dear Ma Klinger remarks on Matthew Ridgeway as commanding general in Korea. He held that post from April 1951-May 1952; yet B.J. came to Korea September 1952. 18 Der Tag The P.A. announcer notes that Ralph Kiner just hit his 47th home run. The only season during the Korean War in which Kiner hit as many as 47 home runs was 1950; he hit his 47th (and last) of the 1950 season on September 27. 19 Hawkeye 20 Some 38th Parallels 21 The Novocaine Mutiny Timeline is October 1952 - Potter took over command Sept. 19, 1952 in 4/3 Change of Command; this is Episode 4/20; in Episode 4/4 The Late Captain Pierce, the timeline is December 1952 (Eisenhower’s visit to Korea after being elected President). However, 4/4 was filmed before 4/20. 22 Smilin’ Jack Timeline fix. The reference to the Battle of the Imjin River fixes the date at April 1951. That’s a bit strange, though. Why would they tally up the scores for chopper pilot of the year in April? Surely it would be done at year end in December? Then again, it is clearly not winter in this episode. Likewise, Mitchell remarks that the front line is at the Yalu River and MacArthur’s Headquarters - yet the Yalu campaign was winter in November/December 1950. Likewise, MacArthur was relieved from command April 1951. Not to mention Col. Potter and B.J. didn’t arrive at the 4077th until 1952 (Potter arrived in September 19, 1952, and B.J. was already there). 23 The More I See You The first of Potter’s paintings are crafted, one of Radar, and also Greek Athlete, with Klinger as the model. 24 Deluge The story of the Pingpong playing cat Dagwood actually happened-in August 1951! Timeline fix. In early Season 4 the timeline was quite consistent with earlier Seasons and fixed at late 1952. For example, in The Late Captain Pierce, earlier in the season, Dwight Eisenhower is now President-elect and tours Korea (historically accurate - he visited Korean in late November 1952). But during one of this episode’s Newsreel snippets, Harry Truman is still in office. And P.A. announcement mentions the Chinese entering the war, which took place on November 27, 1950. In fact, the final clip of the MovieTone newsreel is dated MCML - 1950. The Chinese rupturing the lines could have been any of their offensives in early 1951. What must have happened is the writers realized that the timeline was advancing too far into the Korean War and there wasn’t much of the war left for who knows how many more seasons. So the timeline has been quietly reset or done away with. This reset of the timeline first took place around Smilin’ Jack which also mentions a Chinese offensive and the Battle of the Imjin River (early 1951). 25 The Interview At the beginning of the episode, The Interviewer indicates that the war is a year old, placing this episode sometime in 1951. Season 5 1 Bug Out Part 1 2 Bug Out Part 2 As usual with MASH, little attention is paid by the writers to setting a plausible timeline for this episode. Before Hawkeye and Radar leave for Rosie’s, Houlihan remarks it’s September; the only September that Potter is in Korea is September 1952 (the war ended July 27, 1953), which is just as he arrives at the MASH unit. Meanwhile, Klinger implies he’s already been in Korea for three years, which is a month short of the length of the entire war. 3Margaret’s Engagement 4Out of Sight, Out of Mind 5Lt. Radar O’Reilly 6The Nurses 7 The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan 8 Dear Sigmund 9 Mulcahy’s War 10 The Korean Surgeon 11 Hawkeye Get Your Gun 12 The Colonel’s Horse 13 Exorcism The battle of Hill 205 actually occurred in the Korean War, but it happened in November 1950. Despite the fact Potter came to MASH in September 1952 in this episode Potter refers to the “man upstairs” meaning General Douglas MacArthur who was relieved from duty in April 1951. The part of the end when Hawkeye wins the bet from Frank Burns is in the remastered version. 14 Hawk’s Nightmare 15 The Most Unforgettable Characters Radar’s report dated June 11. Potter was introduced as having come to MASH 4077 on September 19, 1952. If that still holds, the year is 1953 and the Korean War will last only one more month. 1638 Across USS Essex deployments in the Korean War were from August 1951 – March 1952 and July 1952 – January 1953. In real life, POW exchanges in Korea did not happen until summer 1953. 17 Ping Pong 18 End Run 19 Hanky Panky 20 Hepatitis 21 The General’s Practitioner Potter claims he’ll retire in 14 days and 11 months. In The Most Unforgettable Characters (TV series episode) date of June 11, 1953-Potter would retire July 1954 22 Movie Tonight 23 Souvenirs Anomaly: B.J. arrived at the 4077th around the same time as Col. Potter, which was September 1952. He tells Hawkeye that his daughter Erin was born shortly before he was shipped out. In this episode, he says she’s almost 2, but the Korean War ended July 1953, so he should have been home by the time she turned 2. 24 Post Op 25 Margaret’s Marriage Season 6 01 Fade Out, Fade In Part 1 02 Fade Out, Fade In Part 2 03 Fallen Idol 04 Last Laugh 05 War of Nerves Sidney remarks about how some people think I Love Lucy is real. I Love Lucy began airing in October of 1951 and was an immediate phenomenon: the overall rating in America of 67.3 for the entire 1952 season of I Love Lucy continues to be the highest average rating for any single season of a TV show ever, and by a fairly wide margin. Though no-one in Korea drafted prior to October 1951 would have seen the show, any American who came along afterward would have. 06 The Winchester Tapes 07 The Light That Failed 08 In Love and War 09 Change Day Army Money gets changed out 10 Images 11 The M*A*S*H Olympics Col. Potter and B.J. first came to the 4077th in September 1952; the 1952 Olympics happened from July 19 to August 3, 1952. 12 The Grim Reaper 13 Comrades in Arms: Part 1 14 Comrades in Arms: Part 2 During the demonstration operation at the 8063rd MASH, Margaret mentions that they are using a new vascular clamp designed at the 4077th, but this invention doesn’t happen until 3 episodes later in “Patent 4077”. The Timeline seems wrong. That’s because “Patent 4077” was produced before “Comrades in Arms” but the latter was broadcast before the former. 15 The Merchant of Korea Anomaly: Father Mulcahy takes a red $20 military bill out of his boxing glove to use in the second half of the poker game. “Change Day” was 5 episodes ago, so the bill should be blue. 16 The Smell of Music 17 Patent 4077 This is the episode that details the creation of the vascular clamp as described in Dr. Otto Apel’s Book. 18 Tea and Empathy 19 Your Hit Parade 20 What’s Up, Doc? 21 Mail Call Three 22 Temporary Duty 23 Potter’s Retirement The Kentucky Derby is in May. As Potter came to MASH 4077 on Sept 25, 1952 in the real timeline, this would have been May 1953 - Winchester would only have had to stay in this cesspool for another month and a half (he would, of course, have had no way of knowing that). Continuity error is Winchester claiming he been at MASH 4077 for 6 Months; in The Most Unforgettable Characters (TV series episode) Radars morning report is June 11 -using Potter’s real arrival at MASH 4077 Sept 25,1952 this would mean June 1953...and the whining Winchester would only have been in MASH 4077 for 1 month {July 1953} Winchester also complains he missed open heart surgery in Boston. In actual fact...”The first successful intracardiac correction of a congenital heart defect using hypothermia was performed by Drs. C. Walton Lillehei and F. John Lewis at the University of Minnesota on 2 September 1952. In 1953, Alexander Alexandrovich Vishnevsky conducted the first cardiac surgery under local anesthesia. In 1956, Dr. John Carter Callaghan performed the first documented open-heart surgery in Canada.” [Wikipedia..note Vishnevsky conducted surgery in USSR..thus no real open heart surgery in boston..during 1953] 24 Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde 25 Major Topper The mention of dating Audrey Hepburn: Audrey Hepburn did not shoot to worldwide fame until Roman Holiday, which only came out in August 1953, after the end of the Korean War. She only had a few minor roles in British films before that, which Hawkeye, etc. would not have known about. So how is she such a talking point among the Swamp mates? Probably because in November 1951, she played the leading role in the Broadway play Gigi and apparently with great success. A review of newspapers of 1951 shows many stories written about her in papers across the country. A Walter Winchell column noted her “jump from oblivion to stardom.” Stories talking about her as a “new Broadway star” were typical. Knowing how boring camp life can be, it is likely that the MASH personnel devoured every bit of entertainment news from any newspaper that arrived from the U.S. Therefore, provided the timeline here is set after November 1951, it is, on balance, plausible and not an anachronism, that the Swamp mates would consider dating Audrey Hepburn a big deal - she was already some kind of minor celebrity. After 1953, of course, it would have been an even bigger deal, but in 1951, it was still something to brag about. Season 7 01 Commander Pierce 02Peace on Us 03 Lil 04 Our Finest Hour Part 1 05 Our Finest Hour Part 2 Date: October 9, 1952: Reporter Clete Roberts returns to the 4077th, to again interview the medical unit. Roberts stated on camera that he decided to make a return trip to the 4077th, citing the uniqueness of the people and their extraordinary survival record. 06 The Billfold Syndrome 07None Like it Hot 08They Call the Wind Korea 09 Major Ego 10 Baby, It’s Cold Outside 11Point of View We get a close-up of the notepad Rich uses to communicate with the staff, which started out as a letter home, and the date he wrote says “9-12-51” - an anomaly, since Potter didn’t arrive at the 4077th until September 1952. 12 Dear Comrade 13 Out of Gas 14 An Eye for a Tooth The party everyone participated in the night before is announced over the P.A. celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Officers Club. Since the O Club was introduced in Season Two’s “Officers Only”, that means only a year has transpired between Season Two and Season Seven. 15 Dear Sis 16 B.J. Papa San 17 Inga 18 The Price 19 The Young and the Restless 20 Hot Lips is Back in Town 21 C*A*V*E 22 Rally Round the Flagg, Boys Continuity error: Winchester came to MASH 4077 after Potter (Who came Sept 19, 1952) yet Winchester refers in the present tense to Douglas MacArthur (Who was dismissed April 1951) by 1952 the US general in command of UN troops in Korea was Matthew Bunker Ridgeway. 23 Preventative Medicine 24 A Night at Rosie’s 25 Ain’t Love Grand? 26 The Party Season 8 01 Too Many Cooks 02 Are You Now, Margaret? 03 Guerrilla My Dreams 04 Good-Bye Radar: Part 1 05 Good-Bye Radar: Part 2 06 Period of Adjustment 07Nurse Doctor 08 Private Finance 09 Mr. and Mrs. Who? 10 The Yalu Brick Road The camp is suffering from a brutal case of salmonella. Correct chronology would have this take place in November 1952. 11 Life Time Hawkeye sends Klinger to fetch his canvas bathtub. This was supposed to have been traded for ice cream in Season 7’s “None Like It Hot”. Still, it’s entirely possible he just ordered another one. 12 Dear Uncle Abdul 13 Captains Outrageous 14 Stars and Stripes 15 Yessir, That’s Our Baby Sliding Timeline fix: Hawkeye calls the milk in the surgical glove “Chateau Moo ‘51” which places the events in 1951 and also refers to the US Commander as Douglas MacArthur - an anachronism, since Potter didn’t arrive at the 4077th until September 1952. It is also possible, however, that Hawkeye might have been making a quip about when the powdered milk itself was made; it almost certainly would not have been immediately shipped to Korea when it was first manufactured. 16 Bottle Fatigue 17 Heal Thyself 18 Old Soldiers 19 Morale Victory 20 Lend a Hand 21 Goodbye, Cruel World 22 Dreams 23 War Co-Respondent Aggie O’Shea is based on real-life war correspondent Marguerite Higgins, who was in Korea in 1950. 24 Back Pay 25 April Fools If this had really been following the correct timeline as the real Korean War, this would be April 1953. The Korean War ended in July 1953. Season 9 1 The Best of Enemies 2 Letters 3 Cementing Relationships 4 Father’s Day 5 Death Takes a Holiday A sliding time episode..December 1952 was in “The Late Captain Pierce” as Charles came to MASH 4077 after this date...it would have been impossible for Winchester to have celebrated Christmas at the camp. 6 A War for All Seasons M*A*S*H officially observed its 200th episode broadcast on CBS with this episode. Bearing in mind that this episode takes place throughout the year 1951, there are numerous anachronisms including, but by no means limited to the following: Potter’s initial arrival in camp, which is announced by the PA as September 19, 1952. (Change of Command) B.J. arrived in camp for the first time exactly one week before Potter’s arrival. (Welcome To Korea) Bobby Thompson’s home run happened on October 3, 1951; but in Radar’s Report, the date is given as October 17, 1951 (and Frank and Trapper were still at the 4077th). The following events (only two of many examples) are dated after the events of this episode, but feature Frank Burns still at the 4077th: Mad Dogs and Servicemen takes place in May 1952 (Ted Williams goes to Korea) The Novocaine Mutiny take place in October 1952. The Late Captain Pierce takes place in December 1952. The Most Unforgettable Characters takes place June 11, 1953. {Burns was dropped from MASH 4077 at the end of the 5th season about 10 epsidoes later) The events of this episode also beg the question: “When did Charles first arrive in camp?” His arrival at the beginning of Season 6 replacing Frank Burns would suggest that he was only in camp for the final few months of the Korean War itself, but Charles’ inclusion in some episodes that mention the date and year would, by comparison, certainly overlap Frank’s time at the 4077th. Had MasH 4077 stuck to the real Korean War timeline Frank Burns would have been out by June 1953 and whining Winchester would have only been at MASH 4077 2 to 4 weeks! When everyone is celebrating the Giants’ win, Father Mulcahy is so excited he plants a kiss on Margaret. The next time you watch the show, look how surprised she looks - this might have been an ad-lib on William Christopher’s part. Colonel Potter was not wrong to support the St. Louis Cardinals. They finished a distant third behind the Dodgers and Giants. At the time MLB teams in their respective leagues all played under one competitive ladder, one for the NL, one for the AL; the leagues were not split up until 1969, when they were divided into Eastern and Western divisions; with new expansion teams being added they divided yet again in 1994 when the Central divisions were created. 7 Your Retention, Please 8Tell It to the Marines 9 Taking the Fifth Timeline Notes, B.J. mentions that the ‘47 Chateau Margaux is already 4 years old. This places the episode in 1951. As always, mentioning specific military units introduces timeline problems. 2 PPCLI was in theater from 18 Dec 50 - 4 Nov 51. Given that the episode takes place in 1951 as mentioned above, this is at least plausible within the context of the episode and possibly within Season 9, but wildly inconsistent with the events of the previous Seasons since Winchester is supposed to have arrived in 1952 or 1953. Likewise, Potter didn’t come to MASH 4077 until Sept 19, 1952-a whole year after the 2 PPCLI ‘Had already served in Korea’ 10 Operation Friendship 11 No Sweat 12 Depressing News 13 No Laughing Matter 14 Oh, How We Danced Hawkeye mocks Winchester’s will, claiming that he would like to be cremated and have his ashes sprinkled over Robert Taft. Senator Robert A. Taft, Sr., died July 31, 1953. B.J. tells Winchester that the Battle of Pork Chop Hill has been over for a month. Since there were two battles here [16–18 April / 6–11 July 1953], the timeline for this episode is April 1953 (the Korean war armistice came in July 1953). Also, Winchester is shown to be reluctant to go on a front line inspection, yet in another episode, it’s claimed he was a front line surgeon at the Battle of Pork Chop Hill-apparently (“The Life You Save”) where he is at the front lines-the second Battle of Porkchop Hill [6-11 July 1953]. 15 Bottoms Up 16 The Red/White Blues 17 Bless You, Hawkeye 18 Blood Brothers 19 The Foresight Saga 20 The Life You Save Winchester at a Battalion aide station - apparently The Battle of Pork Chop Hill - mentioned in 10/16. Which meant that this episode probably takes place in mid-1953; the Korean war is winding down. Season 10 01 That’s Show Biz 02 That’s Show Biz 03 Identity Crisis 04 Rumor at the Top 05 Give ‘Em Hell, Hawkeye Two Timeline problems: Truman is still President at a time in the timeline when Eisenhower should be President. (Remember 4 season/5 episode The Late Captain Pierce (TV series episode) in which it correctly states that Eisenhower not Truman is President!) Actual barefoot Water skier Charlene Zint Wellborn was in the Newsreel in 1951! (Potter came to MASH 4077 September 19, 1952) 06 Wheelers and Dealers 07 Communication Breakdown 08 Snap Judgment 09 Snappier Judgment 10 ’Twas the Day After Christmas Takes place on December 25-26 11 Follies of the Living - Concerns of the Dead 12 The Birthday Girls 13 Blood and Guts 14 A Holy Mess 15 The Tooth Shall Set You Free 16 Pressure Points Potter mentions Joe DeMegio retirement from baseball -he retired December 11, 1951 as a recent event...yet previous and subsequent epsidoes show this episode year is 1953! 17 Where There’s a Will, There’s a War The Life magazine Klinger gave Hawkeye was dated Aug 4, 1952. Winchester has already been in a battalion aide station in the Battle of Pork Chop Hill (“The Life You Save”), which occurred from March–July 1953 - a sign that the TV show “M*A*S*H” ends with the end of the Korean War in July 1953. 18 Promotion Commotion 19 Heroes 20 Sons and Bowlers 21 Picture This 22 That Darn Kid Season 11 01 Hey, Look Me Over 02 Trick or Treatment October 31 Scala specifically mentions the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge, a real battle of the Korean War that took place in September and October 1951. 03 Foreign Affairs The occurrence of a North Korean pilot defecting did happen, but not until September 21, 1953, two months after the Korean War Armistice was signed in July 1953. 04 The Joker is Wild 05 Who Knew? The “Shmoo” was first introduced in August of 1948 and hit the heights of popularity shortly after and well into the following year. Since this episode of “M*A*S*H*” takes place roughly close to the end of the war (July 1953), it’s difficult to gauge just how popular the Shmoo would have been at that time. 06 Bombshells In 3/13 “Mad Dogs and Servicemen” mention is made of Ted Williams going to Korea. Williams was called back into service May 1952 and returned August 1953 from Korea. Thus, this episode mention Ted Williams going home can only refer to summer 1953. 07 Settling Debts 08 The Moon is Not Blue The movie was released in the USA on July 8, 1953, only nineteen days before the armistice was signed. The episode plot suggests the action took place over a considerably longer time, and there is no mention of the end of the war being in sight. 09 Run for the Money 10 U.N., the Night and the Music 11 Strange Bedfellows 12 Say No More By the summer of 1953, with the exception of Chinese advances on the right side of the UN Main Line where the R.O.K. forces were stationed, and aggressive patrols and counterpatrols in the MAIN Line, the line was pretty static. The only large scale UN offenses were after MacArthur’s dismissal in 1951-1952. 13 Friends and Enemies 14 Give and Take 15 As Time Goes By 16 Goodbye, Farewell and Amen Takes place on or around July 27, 1953. submitted by /u/bsischo to r/mash [link] [comments]