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Joseph Paul DiMaggio (1914-1999), nicknamed “Joltin’ Joe,” “The Yankee Clipper,” and “Joe D.” was a baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. He is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time and widely known for his marriage and lifelong devotion to Marilyn Monroe.
“An expert’s exciting blueprint for man’s interplanetary future.”
“Here is a book which will provide much food for thought to avid space enthusiasts. It tells the history of rocket development; the possibilities of traveling to the different planets in the solar system; the construction and operation of a space ship; and the prospect of establishing temporary and permanent space stations above the Earth's stratosphere. Thrilling material.”
[Note: “Going into Space” was first published in England in 1954 under the title “The Young Traveller in Space,”]
On the Front Lines with Coca-Cola –
“During WWII the boys overseas were fighting for Mom, apple pie and a frosty bottle of Coke. Coca-Cola, as much a part of the American Dream as a white picket fence and a home run, has long symbolized the American way of life, no more so than during WWII when Coke created blatantly patriotic themed advertisements.”
[Source: envisioningtheamericandream.com/2013/05/30/on-the-front-l...]
1976; Universe 5 Anthology 12 stories marvelous, mind grabbing flights to the outer limits of the imagination. Edited by Terry Carr. Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Fritz Leiber, Hilary Bailey, Geo. Alec Effinger, Gene Wolfe, Stephen Goldin, Kris Neville, F.M. Busby, J. Michael Reaves, Edgar Pangborn, J.J. Russ, Mildred Downey Broxon
“Settle the cigarette question by rolling your own from BULL. You get more flavor, more tobacco taste, more enjoyment – and much more for your money – 2 bags for 15c.”
By the time of this ad, W. T. Blackwell of Durham, North Carolina no longer owned the Bull Durham brand. It had been sold to the American Tobacco Company, which then controlled many of the most popular brands of tobacco.
Paul Kruger was a pseudonym used by Roberta Elizabeth Sebenthal.
Published in the UK by Frederick Muller Ltd.
Cover art by Stanley Zuckerberg.
Originally published in the USA by GM Books # 1323 in 1963 (see below)
“The Edison Phonograph is equally delightful in entertaining a crowd of friends or in helping you pass a few hours by yourself. It renders a plaintive ballad or a lively waltz, a comic song or a rousing march, an instrumental solo or a funny story with a clearness and fidelity that is remarkable and almost beyond belief. Put it to the test. Go to the nearest Edison store and hear the new Edison model with the big horn. Let the dealer play for you some of the new Records for March, which include seven records by Harry Lauder. Out February 25th.”
1937; Pinocchio by C. Collodi. Cover and illustration by Luigi E.M. Augusta Cavalieri. Printed in Italy. Back cover
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?
THE SHADOW KNOWS. But no one knows THE SHADOW. Cloaked in darkness and mystery, the man in black is a legend to those who have felt his remorseless hand: The Underworld. One step outside the law and many leagues ahead of the police in the battle against crime, he haunts the forbidding canyons of Manhattan with a mocking laugh that strikes terror into the souls of the guilty everywhere.
With his invisible network of crime fighters who have pledged him their loyalty – and their lives, THE SHADOW stalks a trail of blood that begins with a strange Chinese coin and ends with a king’s ransom in jewels. A fortune leading straight into the trap of a brilliant master criminal who has just pulled the job of a lifetime – in another man’s skin! Has THE SHADOW met his match at last?
"He had always been a loyal servant of the State. Then he started fighting to be his own man . . ."
This was George Lucas’ feature directorial debut. The police who are portrayed as nameless, faceless automatons, remind me of the stormtroopers in “Star Wars.”
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hLXOVCZr-8
Hello everyone,
This pencil drawing is actually the back cover of a scientific handbook released a few days ago (04/09/2014) and called "Biodiversity and evolution of the plant world ". This the second of a series of five handbooks, for, students in the first year of Pharmacy or of Medecine, but also for all those interested in the evolution and the living world. You will also find in my various illustration.
This book plunges us into the fascinating world of plants.
Wanting to keep the plant world in one book was within the impossible. However, in this second installment *, the authors are first used to present an overview of the plant and have detailed the close ties that man has always talks to plants, to compare our respective gene pools:
do not forget that we share a quarter of our genes with the grain of wheat that gives us our daily bread!
After a brief reminder on autotrophy and photosynthesis characteristic of the plant world, the major stages in the evolution of plants are described: algae already populated the oceans there are three billion years; plants had conquered continents 430 million years before our species walked on Earth. But this was only the embryo of a story that would make way for the extraordinary invention of the flower and the development of strategies of co-evolution with insects. Two chapters are devoted to plant metabolism that ensures both our food and our arsenal of pharmacologically active molecules. Emphasis is placed on the tremendous adaptability of plants that are able to communicate, reproduce or away their attackers. The toxic plants annually cause poisoning are not forgotten.
Thus, plants have shaped the face of our planet; they gave him the green and blue visible from space. Without these "green things" on which you sit or walk, often without their cast any light, the history of humanity does not even exist.
Foreword by Hubert Reeves
David Garon is doctor in pharmacy and lecturer in botany, mycology and biotechnology at the University of Caen.
Jean-Christophe Gueguen (Myself) is a doctor of pharmacy, pharmacist and consultant in industrial plant resources.
You can now purchase this handbook on various online sites !
* First handbook : Biodiversity & Evolution Of The Living World
Backcover detail. The tone of this book is actually reasonable and clear--from the illustration it might be easy to assume the author would be strident and blustery in his condemnation, but from what sections I've sampled, the conversation is much more thoughtful than most Bible studies I've seen marketed to conservative Christians.
Planet in Rebellion by George E. Vandeman, 1960, Southern Publishing Association, Nashville, TN. Hardbound book with first-person end-of-days advice and encouragement. The endpapers feature a nuclear cloud behind the 3 crosses at Calvary, perfectly capturing the angst of the Cold War era.
Lucky Strike was the top-selling cigarette brand in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. - Wikipedia
The gunfight in real life was a 30-second long, face-to-face affair with only a few guns, not the lengthy, heavily armed shootout as portrayed in the movie. As a mostly fictional account of the circumstances that led to the shootout, the movie is entertaining enough and well-acted, with Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday. Here is a clip:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE4h5rX9u3U
If you look closely, you may spot DeForest Kelley in the movie clip as one of the Earp brothers, Morgan. Years later, as Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy on Star Trek, DeForest Kelley would assume the role of a cowboy sent to die in “Spectre of the Gun,” Star Trek’s reenactment of the “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.”
“Killing – He terrifies with his obsessive deeds . . . with his diabolical genius. Killing is everywhere ready to strike . . . he takes what he wants in return from DEATH. From a thousand transformations, no one knows who he is . . . Nobody knows his face . . . Killing: THE THRILL THAT KILLS . . . the Terror . . . the Death.”
Poison gas from the atmosphere of a comet could kill all living things.
The sun could explode, becoming a nova, burning the earth to a crisp.
A cosmic dust cloud could shut off all sunlight and suffocate the earth.
A decrease in solar radiation could plunge the earth into another ice age.
“Will these great artists sing in your home on Christmas morning?” For the average consumer back then the answer was almost certainly “No!” in reference to the mahogany console shown in the ad. The Victrola XVII is listed at $275 for the wind-up model and $332.50 for the electric. In today’s money, that’s a whopping $5,448.46 for the wind-up and $6,587.68 for the electric. Even the very low-end Victor mentioned in the ad for $12 is equivalent now to $237.75.
The story of a merry old man who thought he was Santa Claus – and acted that way. The children believed him at once. The rest of New York City thought he was crazy. But he proved his point in a tender tale which has become the twentieth century “Christmas Carol.”
“He is a handsome, elegant, womanizer in a world of sex, snobbery and sudden death – the friskiest, most ruthless and definitely the most bedridden, best-loved spy in the world. There are many imitations, but Bond stands alone.
“This is the spotlight turned revealingly on his world and that of his creator, Ian Fleming, intimately presented by such distinguished personalities as Georges Simenon, Raymond Chandler, Sean Connery [who played James Bond at the time], Len Deighton, Jack Fishman, Allen Dulles, former head of CIA, and espionage authority J. Bernard Hutton . . . The Man, The Legend, The Girls vividly examined (and illustrated).”
IN THE NAME OF LOVE
"He was a sharecropper's son; she worked tables in a greasy spoon. Life didn't give them much -- so they took life by the throat. In an ecstatic orgy of violence they killed and tormented and ravaged -- in the name of love..."
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZpm1zj9510
“Every day thousands of meteorites bombard the earth. Most of them are tiny and harmless, but some have been huge. Meteor Crater, in Arizona, was caused by one of these. Another devastated an enormous region in Siberia. The Carolina craters are the remains of an ancient meteorite fall. What if such a meteorite, or meteorite swarm, was to fall in the vicinity of a large city? What if one fell into the ocean off New York? The catastrophe that would result would be one of the most terrible in history . . . “
Dick Haymes (1918-1980) was an Argentinian singer and actor and one of the most popular male vocalists of the 1940s and early 1950s. And then came Elvis, the game changer.
It Had to Be You – www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW6Jd7zVpxM
Little White Lies – www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGt3HDdh5RA
1958; Best of Balzac by Honoré Balzac. Movie Tie-in starring Brigitte Bardot in the movie Please Mr. Balzac. Cover art by Ralph Barton
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The BR advert on the back cover of my Ian Allan 'abc' Combined Volume - Summer 1962.
I remember having to save up my pocket money to buy the book - 11'6, I only got two bob a week!
"Here is the crater city of Luna, built deep inside the Moon. Air is maintained under its sealed dome and power is drawn from the Sun. Its people are highly civilized and scientific. (See page 145 for details)."
The Thousand Coffins Affair
In Utangaville, Africa, it took two days. . . In Spayerwood, Scotland, it happened overnight. . .
In each town, the people suddenly turned into mindless, babbling creatures who thrashed about wildly, uttering weird, half-human cries - and died. Doctors and scientists were baffled as to the cause. A sudden plague, some mysterious virus?
But to the members of the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement, there could be only one answer: THRUSH had a deadly new weapon for world conquest.
"In ancient times the coach and four -- in modern times the OLDSMOBILE."
"Edward Penfield (1866-1925) was an American illustrator in the era known as the "Golden Age of American Illustration" and he is considered the father of the American poster. His work has been included in almost every major book on American Illustration or the history of the poster. He is also a major figure in the evolution of graphic design." -- Wikipedia
The catalogue to an exhibition held by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd of their advertising posters, brochures and other publicity materials that was held at the New Burlington Gallery in London. For the occasion the company commissioned one of the foremost poster artists of the day, Edward McKnight Kauffer, to design the covers to the catalogue booklet. This he did with his usual bold style - the artist and palette superimposed on a scene of industry and technology, symbolic of Shell-Mex and BP's apparent patronage of 'commercial art'.
As the introduction, by Frank Rutter, notes the company came into the the field of using graphic design as the basis of their corporate identity following the example of London's Underground and that organisation's Commercial Manager, Frank Pick. It was Pick who, arguably, helped McKnight Kauffer on to the ladder of success with his early post-WW1 posters for the Underground Group. McKnight Kauffer went on to design Shell publicity, alongside a roll call of now famous graphic designers and artists under the patronage of Jack Beddington. Beddington joined Shell in 1928 and after the formation of the joint marketing concern Shell-Mex and BP in 1932 he rose to become Director of Publicity for the company.
The book is printed by Lund, Humphries of the County Press in Bradford and the typography and layout are 'very' Lund, Humphries for that date.
The company organised a second such exhibition in 1938.
"Back again" because Kodak's German arm had unsurprisingly ceased producing Retina cameras during WWII.
The August Nagel-designed folding 35mm models were extremely practical (my father used one!) but mid-1949 is before the IIa acquired its rapid-wind lever. Following that, the 'Type 016' is my favorite of the series and one I carried daily for quite a while.
“IN DAYS OF OLD
YE WITCHES BOLD
SWEPT COBWEBS
FROM THE SKY
“BUT MODERN MAID
IS NOT AFRAID
SAPOLIO TO TRY.”
Sapolio was a brand of soap noted for its advertising, led by Artemas Ward from 1883–1908. Bret Harte wrote jingles for the brand, and the sales force also included King Camp Gillette, who went on to create the Gillette safety razor and the razor and blades business model. Time magazine described Sapolio as "probably the world's best-advertised product" in its heyday.
Sapolio was manufactured by Enoch Morgan's Sons Co. from 1869 and, after decades of maintaining some of the best known advertising in the U.S., Sapolio's owners decided that their position was sufficiently insurmountable as to let them discontinue most advertising. Despite the brand's overwhelming market position, it was overtaken by competitors within a few years and disappeared from the market before World War II.
In 1997, Sapolio was bought by the Peruvian company Intradevco Industrial SA. Intradevco is owner of the Sapolio brand in more than 80 countries. The Sapolio brand name is now used to market several cleaning products in Peru and Chile.
[Source: Wikipedia]
The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American recording company and phonograph manufacturer that operated independently from 1901 until 1929, when it was acquired by the Radio Corporation of America and then operated as a subsidiary called RCA Victor.
1954; The Night is my undoing [The cut of the Ax] by Delmar Jackson. Cover art by Raymond Johnson. Blurr reads: She knew too many Men - too well.