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A fact from Martha Holliday appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 August 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that a 1940s pin-up photograph (shown) of dancer and actress Martha Holliday reportedly "created a near-panic in the United States Senate"?
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... that a 1940s pin-up photograph (pictured) of dancer and actress Martha Holliday reportedly "created a near-panic in the United States Senate"? Source: here ("The lanuourously graceful pose of Martha Holliday lazily sunning herself beside a swimming pool created a near-panic in the United States Senate.")
Overall: The QPQ is pending. The sentence "For three years, she taught dance routines to Warner Brothers stars." would benefit from a ref. Also, if discoverable, what she died from at age 48 might be of interest. I am unclear whether the image used should be the lighter one, found at the same image page. Also, the promotor can decide whether this image caption should have an inline to the magazine. 2603:7000:2101:AA00:D2D:8862:1D25:CC55 (talk) 22:00, 16 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Regarding the image license @Cbl62:. Do we know, if the original image in the magazine taken by the US Govt employees? In other words did they obtain the image from someone or did they take the image? From some quick cursory research I do not see any image attribution in the magazine, and I also do not see any reason to believe it is not the work of Yank magazine. Bruxton (talk) 21:11, 17 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Yank, the Army Weekly was published by the US military. If you look on commons, there are hundreds of images and pin-ups from the magazine, all classified as public domain. Cbl62 (talk) 21:16, 17 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
I'm not clear that she married. This site, for what it's worth, indicates her buried name as Harriette A. Olson. With a corresponding simple gravestone. Anyway, good to go, w my above comments as to a couple of points I am leaving to the promotor. 2603:7000:2101:AA00:D2D:8862:1D25:CC55 (talk) 03:36, 17 August 2023 (UTC)