Showing posts with label Life Magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life Magazine. Show all posts
Thursday, December 19, 2024

James Montgomery Flag for Quaker State Motor Oil

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An advertisement for Quaker State motor oil appeared in the October 13, 1941 issue of Life magazine. It looked back on the unhappy road tra...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

Speaking of Pictures: Life Magazine on Peter Arno, 1941

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In its October 13, 1941 issue,  Life  magazine gave its readers a generous sampling of ten  Peter Arno cartoons from The New Yorker collec...
Sunday, March 27, 2022

Life Magazine: The 1912 Doctors' Number

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Those who wish to understand the extraordinary achievement of  The New Yorker,  which came on the scene in 1925, need to understand what the...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Barbara Shermund for Wings Sportswear

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There's no telling what good fortune might befall a man with the good taste to wear Wings Sport Shirts.   Barbara Shermund's World ...
Sunday, February 6, 2022

Otto Soglow for Penn Maryland Whiskey

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After Peter Arno's  advertisement for Penn Maryland Whiskey's "Gentlemen Prefer Blends" campaign, cartoonist Otto Soglow ...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

A Happy New Year from Rea Irvin

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Top-hatted and diapered, a smiling and chubby New Year's baby enjoys a glass of champagne and a cigar. This is the subject of an undated...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

Gluyas Williams: Crisis in Washington

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What if the sitting president refuses to leave the White House when his term is up? This surprisingly topical question has already been aske...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Edward Sorel: The English Language Tower of Babel

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Mistress Quickly:   What, John Rugby! I pray thee, go to the casement and see if you can see my master, Master Doctor Caius, coming. If he...
Saturday, December 15, 2018

Barbara Shermund: Diving for Greenbacks?

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In decades past, it was a common practice for well-off cruise ship passengers to toss coins overboard at natives who would dive for them. T...