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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.
"You don't buy tires on looks, or color or weight; you have to put your faith in what you are told about them. . .
"The service must be in the tires, not in the words used. We make Marathon Tires that way -- by hand, not by machinery; hand work is better than machine work in tires; it costs more. Marathon tires cost more than others; they're worth more."
Sponsored by the Marathon Tire & Rubber Co. of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
"Prior to 1919, the principal business for Cluett, Peabody & Co. was manufacturing men's shirt collars. Beginning in the 1920s the demand for collar-attached shirts grew considerably, while the detached collar business experienced a decline. In 1929 Cluett, Peabody & Co. established a national menswear business under the Arrow brand name. The "Arrow" name gradually grew into a product line that included shirts, collars, handkerchiefs, cravats, pajamas, and underwear for men and boys." -- Wikipedia
The patriotic scene features an early submarine, navy ships, biplanes and a sailor raising an American flag. The picture is number 833 and is credited to F.A.S. Other examples of the calendar that I’ve seen contain advertising in the blank space at the top, so I assume the calendar could be ordered from a printing company or directly through Life magazine. Little else is known.
Second cover Parrish created for Life magazine in a relationship with Life that lasted until 1924. As with many major magazines at the turn of the century, color/two tone covers were complicated and expensive to print, so they were generally saved for special year-end holiday issues.
LIFE magazine.
Bob Landry
is remembered most for this image of
Rita Hayworth photographed in the summer of 1941.
Image from the book, "The Classic Collection."
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Entitled: During the famine, young child dying in the gutter, China [1946] G Silk [RESTORED] I cleaned a few spots, adjusted contrast and darkened tonality for stronger visual impact, and added a sepia tone.
George Silk was a LIFE Magazine staffer, working for them 30 years. He extensively covered many aspects of the second world war, at one point being even captured by the Germans, and then fortunately escaping. He was also the first photographer to document Nagasaki after the atomic bombing. Immediately after the war, he was in China recording the poor social conditions and the lack of resources and its devastating effects on the Chinese populace.
Whether one reads Anderson's Little Match Girl or sees Takahata's anime adaptation of Nosaka's Grave of the Fireflies one cannot help but be thunderstruck with compassion over the plight of impoverished children, and of China it was no different. In the desperate and unforgiving times of the post war period, China was devastated and its streets overflowed with those least able to fend for themselves. Too young to steal food with sustainable reliability and too old and too many to elicit the short supply of compassion of a war numbed society, child orphans were left to scrape a daily existence from whatever they begged or fought for. More often than not, they lost that fight.
This is not a pleasant image, and indeed I was conflicted about even submitting it. However, in the final analysis, painful as it is, it remained an important historic document of the plight that wars bring to people, and the suffering that it engenders. We as a society today cannot help those that have already succumbed to the grinding poverty effects induced by previous wars. However, before we start any new ones, the least that we can do is remember those thousands of starved children, before we in our eager belligerent hubris, inadvertently create more.
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An important note about LIFE MAGAZINE:
For those that weren't familiar with the magazine; in its heyday, Life Magazine could be best described as the National Geographic of people and society. From 1936, it offered mostly an intimate and fascinating view, with extensive picture stories or photo essays, into sections of social milieu that Americans could only imagine. Unfortunately, because of the high and rising costs of publishing, it essentially folded in 1972. Sadly, various attempts since then, to bring back this photojournalist's phenomenon (in various forms) met with little success.
All is not lost however; in probably one of the most magnanimous gestures that any corporation can make towards public image history, TIME, Inc., the current owners of the former Life Magazine, has offered up its vast photo archives of over TEN MILLION images to be freely available for non commercial use via GOOGLE's Search engine. Photographs can instantly convey a story in a way that words alone cannot. By releasing these pictures for public access, TIME, Inc., has helped to keep our collective history (as seen through Life Magazine) alive for future generations to appreciate. It is rare indeed to see such corporate generosity.
In order to search the life photo database, simply go to Google Images, and type in your search term, skip a space and append the following exactly as it appears:
source:life
Dawn breaks behind the ASTP Saturn IB launch vehicle during the Countdown Demonstration Test. The Mobile Service Structure was moved away from the vehicle for the test, which is a step-by-step dress rehearsal for the launch culminating in a simulated T-zero and launch. During the test, the stages of the Saturn IB rocket are fueled as they will be on launch day, July 15. Following the simulated liftoff, the fuels will be offloaded and the terminal portion of the count will be repeated tomorrow with the prime crewmen Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Donald Slayton aboard the spacecraft.
Over a thousand Chicagoans, from all walks of life and all parts of the city, came together at Millennium Park to perform "Crowd Out" by Davind Lang.
Although a bit chaotic in the beginning, once the leaders of each of the small groups that formed the whole got things in sync, it became a beautiful performance and a moving experience.
I came upon this event purely by accident and it took me a while to figure out what was going on.
Once surrounded by all these people, I was pretty much stuck, so you see some of the same faces over and over again.
I focused on this particular couple because they were not just very dedicated to their individual cont in the whole production, but they were also very much in sync with each other.
The B-52 Stratofortress is a U.S. long-range, subsonic, jet-powered heavy bomber designed by the Boeing Company in 1948. The magazine ad appeared just about a week before the XB-52 prototype was first flown, on April 15, 1952. The ad proclaims the long, hard job of building a strategic bombing force:
“The amount of time, money and effort that must go into building up just one part of this force – the Strategic Air Command – should give American citizens some idea of the huge task your armed forces and the aircraft industry are tackling in rebuilding American Air Power. . .
“To succeed, the Air Force needs a realistic public understanding of the time factors involved in Air Power expansion . . . and recognition of the hard fact that Air Power must be consistently maintained in peace if it is to be relied upon to help prevent – or meet – the terrible emergency of war.” [Excerpt from the ad copy]
The ad was sponsored by the United Aircraft Corporation, makers of Pratt & Whitney jet engines, 8 of which power up the B-52. Multiply 8 by the 744 bombers that were built and the result is a pretty big chunk of change. So, United Aircraft was not exactly a disinterested party in building B-52s. It was part of that military-industrial complex Dwight Eisenhower warned against, hard at work influencing public policy.