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This is one of only 28 paintings Norman Rockwell produced for Life magazine covers. An exhausted Boy Scout and his faithful friend and admirer, his little dog, waits patiently for him to wake up.
The U.S. entered World War I in April, 1917. By 1918, the infusion of American troops and resources into the western front tipped the scale in the Allies’ favor and Germany signed an armistice agreement on November 11, 1918.
The Allied countries – including the United States, Britain, France, Italy and Japan – negotiated a peace treaty at the Palace of Versailles in France from January 1919 to January 2020. The final Treaty of Versailles contained 440 articles, and Germans had no choice but to accept it. Its harshness had a crippling effect on the German economy and caused German resentment. Hitler capitalized on that resentment to gain support, which led to the beginning of World War II.
Before NASA and the Space Race, there were space artists who dazzled and inspired a generation of youngsters who would later put a man on the moon. One of the most celebrated of these artists was Chesley Bonestell.
This issue of Life contains an unpublished manuscript by Mark Twain, “Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer Among the Indians,” in which American fiction’s most famous boys set off on a wild adventure they never finished.
From the magazine editor’s introduction to the piece:
“From his summer retreat near Elmira, N.Y. on July 6, 1884, Mark Twain sent his business manager a request for some books – ‘personal narratives of life and adventure out yonder on the Plains and in the Mountains. I mean to take Huck Finn out there.’ The books came and on July 15 Twain noted in his journal that he was writing about Huck and Tom Sawyer ‘among the Indians 40 or 50 years ago.’
“The boys’ adventure is a vivid tale of captivity, torture, murder, pursuit and vengeance – all classic elements in western fiction, in this case enhanced by the master hand of America’s greatest story-teller. But Twain never finished it. After 18,000 words the story simply breaks off in mid-sentence, never to be completed and never, until now, to be published . . .”
This series is made with an unabashed nod to John Seven whose work is a constant source of inspiration.
Turkish tobacco brands such as Rameses, Fatima, Murad and Mecca were popular during the early twentieth century. Most were owned by American companies. Turkish tobacco was prized for its aroma and milder flavor.
“They took what they wanted . . . and they wanted the world!”
“Swashbuckling Sons of Satan! The thunder of their plundering shook the earth, the seas, the sky!”
The film follows British Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard (Keith Andes), who sets out to earn a reward by proving that privateer Henry Morgan (Torin Thatcher) also engages in piracy. Maynard poses as a surgeon on board the ship of pirate Charles Bellamy, who he believes is in league with Morgan. Once on board, Maynard discovers that the pirate Blackbeard (Robert Newton) has murdered Bellamy and taken over as captain. Also on board is Edwina Mansfield (Linda Darnell), a pirate’s daughter, who was going to marry Bellamy. Blackbeard knows that Morgan loves Mansfield and will pursue her. [Source: Wikipedia]
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIDBE5d0TYY
This photo won 3rd prize in a photo competition.
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May 1954 - Basil Wolverton art on a Harvey Kurtzman-designed Life magazine parody cover. The folks at Life were reportedly quite unhappy about this at the time.
----- this is my favorite Mad cover of all time, and from the time when Mad was still a comic book, before becoming a magazine to avoid the newly created Comics Code, after the congressional hearings
Chesterfield cigarette ad from the July 29, 1940 issue of Life Magazine.
"Cooler and Milder and Better-Tasting"
"Chesterfield - America's Busiest Cigarette"
“The Story of Attila the Hun.”
“Against the ravaging hordes of Attila . . . stood a warrior’s might and a people’s faith: Against his ruthless pagan lusts . . . the power of a woman’s love.”
With the Roman Empire divided, Attila the Hun (Jack Palance) hopes to conquer it, but in his way are a brave centurion (Jeff Chandler), a beautiful princess (Ludmilla Tchérina) and Christianity.
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p667Xd3fZjU
I believe that this couple is related to the Pipe-Smoking Man, who smokes a pipe, wears yellow socks, and appears in some other slides I've posted (see, for instance, The Silence in the Room Was Deafening).
This woman and man, who may have been Pipe-Smoking Man's parents or in-laws, didn't always seem to be in such bad moods. Take a look at Here's the Lady You Ordered! to see the hilarity that ensued as the man and another fellow carried the woman through a doorway into a house (judging by the corsage that the woman was wearing and the flower in the man's lapel, I suspect that they were celebrating a wedding anniversary).
I wasn't able to see a date or determine who's on the cover of the Life magazine on the coffee table, and it looks like there's also a Toby jug on the table near the magazine.
Update: Thanks go to goenetix over on Ipernity for identifying the Life magazine issue! It was published on October 9, 1950, and that's British actress Jean Simmons on the cover.
A 35 mm slide originally posted to the Vintage Photos Theme Park on Ipernity: Grumpy and Grouchy.