Once again, illustration art by Whitney Darrow, Jr., is hard to decipher on its own. The original art from 1967 looks forward to the year 2079 when space travel and modernism are all the rage, and President Chester A. Arthur is improbably relevant. The accompanying file sticker suggests this art was created for Personna razor blades, but that might be a red herring. The name of humorist Max Shulman is written on the overlay, so this very well could be a column illustration for "On Campus with Max Shulman." Suddenly, it all makes sense. Almost. [See the newly added quotation and the column below.]
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| "This mathematical curiosity will not occur again until the year 2079, but we will all be so busy then celebrating the Chester A. Arthur bi-centenerary that we will scarcely have time to be writing papers and letters and like that." |
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| Whitney Darrow, Jr. eBay listing ended October 20, 2022 |
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| Whitney Darrow, Jr. eBay item description |
Note: Where, pray tell, are the print media that correspond to Whitney Darrow's original art? At least one blogger wants to know. Can you help?
It finally occurs to me that any or all of the mysterious Personna ads by Darrow I have previously chronicled might actually be column illustrations for "On Campus with Max Shulman."
April 8, 2023 Update: Ah, here it is.
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| https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/docs/#id=zfbv0004 |
And, better still:
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| "1968: Its Cause and Cure" On Campus with Max Shulman The Winonan Winona State College, Winona, MN January 11, 1968, p. 3 |
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| "This mathematical curiosity will not occur again until the year 2079, but we will all be so busy then celebrating the Chester A. Arthur bi-centenerary that we will scarcely have time to be writing papers and letters and like that." |
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| "This mathematical curiosity will not occur again until the year 2979, but we will all be so busy then celebrating the Chester A. Arthur bi-centenerary that we will scarcely have time for writing papers and letters and like that." |
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