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90 pages. Articles: How to Beat the Communists - by UAW (United Auto Workers') chief Walter Reuther; Walter Winchell - Aan American Phenomenon - a study of the fastest talker on the airwaves; Our Lights are Going Out - electrical power shortage; John N. Garner's Story (part 2) - the former Vice-President tells of his most serious disagreement with Mr. Roosevelt; Hot-Sun Hockey - The Pacific Coast goes for hockey in a big way - article with color photos including the Fresno Falcons playing the Los Angeles Monarchs; Boys at Work - this school reforms tough kids. Fiction: Jason Hazard's Swim; The Female Circumstance; Cupid Up the Bayou!; The Farmer's Face; The Mysterious Way; Interruptions, Interruptions. Nostalgic ads include: Old Thompson Whiskey; Packard cars; GMC trucks (nice!); Nash cars; Oldsmobile two-page color ad; Dodge Trucks; Lord Calver liquor ad featuring one-page color photo portrait of Richard C. Kettles, Jr. and his boxer Worlord; Chrysler color centerfold features cowboy scene; Chevrolet trucks; Botany 500; Samson card tables; Kleenex (featuring Little Lulu); Wow! - two-page color ad for Roma Wines features large image of Jane Russell; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features rodeo star Jerry Ambler, fisher Dorothy Allan Newstead, polo star Cecil Smith and table-tennis star Mary Reilly. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
82 pages. Features: Nice RKO photo ad advertises 'I Remember Mama', 'Tycoon', 'If You Knew Susie' and 'Magic Town'; 1-page ad for Philco entertainment products; Brother Jazz - The Story of Eddie Condon - with color photos; Affair's End (fiction); How to Have Ancestors; They're Still Expendable - article and photos explain how unemployment, small-business failures and layoffs are hitting veterans harder than the rest of the nation; Fever (fiction); He Clicked for 30 Years - Highlights of the career of photographer George William Harris - article with photos; The Five Dresden Angels (fiction); Man Running (fiction); Demon from the Doldrums - Nature's most destructive force is the West Indian hurricane; Nice 1-page color-photo ad for International Harvester Industrial Power features photo of a large diesel crawler in a Florida limestone quarry; Nice 1-page color ad for Ford cars; Nice vintage 1-page color ad for Kraft Cheeses; Western Electric 1-page color ad shows telephone repairman talking housewife and children at front door; Ballantine Ale 1-page color ad; Half-page 2-color ad for Fruehauf Trailers; Pennsylvania Railroad nice 1-page color ad shows comforable scene on-board; Fall Guise - article with six color photos of men's fall college fashions; Nice 1-page DeSoto car ad; A Good Whipping (fiction); Fantastic 1-page 2-color ad for the movie 'Body and Soul' starring John Garfield, Lilli Palmer and Hazel Brooks; Nice 1-page color Budweiser ad displays several illustrated plates; Goldwyn ad features colour photo of Danny Kaye; Rislone and Karbout ad features cute color photo of cigarette girl; 1-page ad for Gillette one-piece razors; Smiling Girl (fiction); Nice color 1-page ad for Hamm's Beer; One-page ad for American Overseas Airlines; Luckky Strike ad on back cover includes nice color illustration entitled 'Bright Tobacco' by Fletcher Martin. Couple of chips from top of front cover. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
78 pages. Articles: The A-Bomb Won't Do What You Think! - a cautionary article; The Wide-Awake Business of Sleep; How a Movie Gets Made (part 1 of 2) - The making of the film "The Stratton Story" with colour photo of Jimmy Stewart, June Allyson and Agnes Moorehead; Jane Pickens - the Big Pickens Sister; Tanker Run North - life aboard the F.S. Bryant, a big oil tanker operated by Standard Oil of California; St. Louis Cardinal Edward (Eddie) Terrance Kazak; The Right Shirt on Your Back - Great colour fashion photos of stars including Alan Ladd, Frank Lovejoy, Richard Basehart, William Bishop and Lloyd Nolan. Fiction: The case of the Negligent Nymph; Summer's Ending; Surprise; Deadfall (conclusion); Send Me Home in a Barrel; Ott in the Cherry Tree. Includes nice vintage ads from: Lord Calvert whiskey - featuring color photo of Ian Hunter, stage and screen star; Listerine - for use as an anti-dandruff shampoo(!); DeSoto cars; Pontiac cars (very attractive!); "I Married a Communist" movie (full-page); Oldsmobile cars; Brunswick bowling equipment; Botany 500; Dan River clothing; Mallory hats; Smartair corduroy men's fashion (nice!); Blatz beer - featuring nice color photos of Pat O'Brien, co-star of RKO's "The Bail Bond Story"; Back cover ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes featuring L.G. Griffin, tobacco auctioneer. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
24 pages. Cover portrait of the Right Hon. Arthur James Balfour, First Lord of the Admiralty. Article entitled "The 'Silver Bullets': A Dramatic Story of World Wide Finance", by A.W. Holland, is quite extensive and, in fact, makes up the entirety of the textual content in this issue. A summary of the article is provided and reads as follows: The Aftermath of an Era of Extravagence - How the Great War Found us Financially Unprepared - The Drain of British Gold to Germany - Great Britain on the Horns of a Dilemma - Neutrality or a Big War Indemnity to Germany - Fall of our National Credit - Government and the Crisis - How the Financial Panic was Stayed - The British Navy and Overseas Commerce - Developments in the American Exchange - The Bank of England and Foreign Bills - Russia's Heroic Course - Meeting the Cost of Armageddon: 3 million GBP/day - Looking to the Future - An Unprecedented Object Lesson in the Forgotten Virtue of Economy. Includes 56 photos and illustrations, most of which feature military subjects. The more financially-related photo subjects include: Lloyd George, Minister of Munitions, with Mr. J. Howard Whitehouse, M.P.; The King visiting a Birmingham munitions factory; Sir C.A. Parsons, Central Committee of Inventions Board; The Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Earl St. Aldwyn, Chairman of Committee of Advice on New Financial Issues; Dr. G.T. Beilby, Central Committee of Inventions Board; The Rt. Hon. Herbert Samuel, Postmaster-General; J.P. Morgan, head of the American financial firm acting as British war agents in the U.S. (who was wounded on 3 July, 1915); The late Lord Rothschild. Additional photos include: 'Canada's enthusiastic response to the call of the motherland', a wonderful full-page camera record of the scene at Victoria, British Columbia, as one of the troopships laden with volunteers for the front was about to leave the docks on its long voyage to Europe"; A full-page 5-photo montage illustrating Newfoundlanders to the front - some of the volunteers from Britain's oldest colony. Average wear. Unmarked. Centerfold loose but present. Top staple missing, otherwise a quality copy of this excellent issue. Book
58 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration of clown bottle-feeding baby pig; If Canada Can Curb Crime Why Not the U.S.?; Blind River - the story of a butterfly who said she'd take bananas; The Haunted House on Beacon Street - uncanny horrors baffle a Boston churchman and his cultured, aristocratic wife; Mike - the revealing story of a radio star's romance (part 2 of 2); Movie News, Reviews and Photos - The Little Giant, A Bedtime Story, The Devil's Brother, Phantom Broadcast; The Private Life of Marie Dressler - article with photos, including Charlie Chaplin; Scarlet Woman (part 6); Pa Potter Procudes a Miracle; Born to Raise Hell (part 9); Antidotes (short story); Vox Pop; To the Ladies; Classy color back cover ad for Beech-Nut Luster-Mint candies - Lemon, Orange and Lime. Above-average but not excessive wear. Moisture-induced rippling and moderate discoloration in places - all text clearly legible. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
70 pages. Features: Nice color-photo portrait of distinguished builder Mr. Henry Doelger in Lord Calvert ad inside front cover; Bell Telephone one-page ad features photo and write-up of Denis Hartnett who was "Mr. Telephone" to the people of Homer, NY; Color photos of a Lion Luncheon in Kenya; Nostalgic 1-page 2-color ad for USS (US Steel) shows where their products were used; Vintage Goodyear 1-page color photo ad promotes their new Lifeguard Safety Tubes; The Koje Snafu - major article with color photos explains how U.S. Brigadier General Francis Townsend Dodd was seized by his captives and another was lured into signing Red propaganda - the astonishing inside story from the Korean War; What You Don't Know About Your Eyes; Article on Salt - 14,000 uses and $0.02/pound; Gabbing with the Gabors - article with great bedroom photos of Zsa Zsa, Magda, Mama and Eva; The Windfall (fiction); Pigs Have Wings (fiction); Baseball's Biggest Bargain - article on the Brooklyn Dodgers with fantastic color photos of many team members including Jackie Robinson; Blood Money (fiction); Ninety Saddles for Kengtu (fiction); Brief article and two color photos of native artist Frank White Eagle; First or Nothing (fiction); History Hinges on These Two Rivers - excelllent color photos of US troops near the Yalu River and US naval vessels in the Rhine - with brief article; Ike is My Boy - West Point's salty Old Sarge, Sergeant Marty Maher, reveals Ike's sports loves - article with four photos of Ike; Inch and a Half to Go - humor about women and maps; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features opera star Patrice Munsel. Couple of chips from top of back cover. Average wear. Library stamp on front cover and back page. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: Was it Coincidence? - a Zulu witch doctor and his magic; The Man Who Hesitated - a dramatic story from West Africa; Comacchio on the Adriatic - the Venice of the Eels - article with photos; The Brophy Will Case - an unusual American detective case; The Wily Coyote - interesting stories of these hated coyotes and their ways in the Western States; McNeill's Lapse - a good man falls victim to temptation; Climbing the White Elephant near the Tom Reed Mine at Oatman, Arizona - article with nice photos; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone (part II) - tales from two young naval officers who set off to see the world with five dollars between them; Lion Hunting in Somaliland - article with many photos; The Cruise of the Dream Ship - part IV of Ralph Stock's sailing through the enchanted South Sea Islands - article with nice photos; Trapped by a Flash-flood in a canyon; Down the River - two youngsters seek fortune and adventure running a little launch on a New Zealand river; Robert Tipp's terrible ordeal at the top of a lofty flagstaff; My Visit to Mexico - why the author didn't want to go and now likes Mexico less than ever; Our Adventures Among the Berbers - the author's experiences with the Shawia Berbers of Algeria - article with great photos; That Donkey! - the pathetic story of a journalist and the donkey he bought; nice vintage ads. Multiple pieces of red, clear and brown tape securing covers. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
74 pages. Articles: Crack-up of an American Communist Family - the incredible story of a woman's revolt against 20 years of entanglement with The Party Line - Moscow decided her friends, her books, even her baby's birth; We Need Carriers and the B-36 - article with colour photo of a B-36 and awesome full-page black and white photo of an aircraft carrier at dock; Have No feah, "Big Joe" is Heah - Joe Rosenfield, Jr. is a disk jockey on New York's WOR - article with nice color photo; To the County Home to Die - 29 deaths in five weeks at the County Home near Fort Wayne, IN; The Marvelous Mounties (RCMP) - As They Really Are (part 1 of 2); The Christian Science Monitor - Gentlemen of the Press (conclusion) - includes great full-page color photo of the famed Monitor Mapparium; Lighter and Brighter; How Stalin Got That Way - editorial. Fiction: The Barber Who Played in the Series; Bride of the Week; Other Woman; Sky Line Red; The Case of the Negligent Nymph; Big Adventure - Small World. Includes these nice vintage ads: Blatz Beer - featuring nice colour photos of actor Fred MacMurray; Packard cars; Mercury cars; Zenith radios and TVs; Elgin watches; Porto-Ped shoes; Plymouth cars; Hamilton watches; *Wonderful* color centerfold for Chesterfield cigarettes features Arthur Godfrey, Bing Crosby and Perry Como; The 1950 Harley-Davidson 125 motorcycle; "Bride For Sale" one-page movie ad; Mallory hats; Dan River men's fashions; Union Pacific Railroad; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features endorsement by doctors. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
132 pages. Features: Many gorgeous color fashion ads; Three generations of the Mitchell family are featured in Sohmer piano ad; Chinese Nuclear Research - article with photos; The World of the Unborn - the new medical specialty of Fetology; Holy Men of India - In Search of Seekers of the Truth; Don't Tell it to the Computer - the threat it represents to privacy; Toscanini - the Greatest Single Influence on Today's Conductors; George Plimpton - story with photos of his varied activities; El San Juan Hotel (Puerto Rico) ad features Lou Puro, Chairman of the Board; Sweater fashion photos; "Because I Say So" - raising children; Sensuous Cone Towel ad; 1966 Was a Happening for Home Furnishings; Save the Children Federation ad features the family of Nancy and John Seletti - and young Chang Sook of Korea; and more. Above-average wear to front cover which is almost loose. Back cover missing. A worthy vintage copy. Book
90 pages. Articles: Crazy Like a Box Top - the golden age dawns for folk who enter guessing contests; How America will Defend Herself - the technique of modern warfare; Silver Scrapper - Florida Tarpon put up a savage fight; Doodles International - a study of the subconscious scribblings of men who make history; Behind the Palestine Reversal - The case for partition - by a member of the U.N. Special Committee; For Young Adults Only - in Madison, WI ex-G.I.s and others form a club to replace USO; Jaunt with Janie - author claims he went to Chile for this story on Jane Greer. Ads include: Nash cars; Bell telephone; Zenith radios adn phonographs; GMC Trucks; B.V.D. sportswear; RCA Victor phonographs; Pabst beer featuring colour photo of artist James Montgomery Flagg; Dodge cars; Plymouth cars; Good Year tires; New York Central railway; Ballantine's Ale; Hudson cars; Goebel beer; Santa Fe Railroad; Budweiser beer (medieval golf illustration); Miller beer; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring roller skater Raven Malone. Unmarked with average wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
Features: The sweaty fight for a single seat - the current federal election campaign; The merciful aftermath of the Moroccan oil tragedy - almost ten thousand men, women and children, paralyzed by poisoned cooking oil in 1959 are walking and working again - a Canadian medical team helped in the most devastating medical story of our time in Meknes, Morocco; The case for taking children away from their parents - Dr. Karl Bernhardt; Jeanine Beaubien - the woman who stages plays in 5 languages in Montreal's Powderhouse; How to spot a home-grown (Canadian) image; How Zoo Animals get their kicks - with photos; Ralph Allen's 'Lost Art of Fishing for Fun'; Nice colour photo full-page Pepsi ad; Toronto and Montreal should be provinces, by Donald C. Rowat; The Medical Care (Medicare) War - Ralph Allen reports from Saskatchewan. Moisture stains to upper corner of all pages. Average wear. Address labe. Binding intact. Book
Features: Editorial - our cheap but costly funerals; How Alfred Valdmanis took Newfoundland to the cleaners by taking payoffs for government contracts; What's wrong with subsidies for the arts?; They're selling packaged weather - Paul Denison and Bernard Power and their Weather Engineering Corp. of Canada; Bruce Hutchison rediscovers New Brunswick; They're freezing people to life - by imitating hibernation (with cold) doctors are performing 'impossible' operations and saving accident victims, feeble babies and dying old folk; Nobody can Curl like the Campbells - Sandy Campbell and his 5 boys from Avonlea, Saskatchewan - story with photos; Movies of 1955 - Clyde Gilmour picks the best and worst; nice colour ad for the 1956 Oldsmobiles; Wonderful full-page colour ad for Wabasso Cottons inside back cover. Address label on front cover. Restapled. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Colour cover photo of the lift locks at Peterborough, Ontario; Two photos of an Italian propellerless (jet) airplane above an editorial entitled "Weapons Win Wars"; Big Ben Westclox ad with military theme; RCA Victor ad explains how their transmitters and receivers are ready to warn Canada of surprise attack; Parker Vacumatic Pen ad; Bruce Hutchison writes about Canadians in light of his millionaire friend, Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay, and Marshal Petain, of Vichy; Spring Practice, a story illustrated by John Scott; They Were Prepared - the true story of an unnamed Nova Scotia coastal community which was organized to rescue survivors of a torpedoed boat; Japan's Cult of Death, by Morris C. Shumiatcher claims "Fanatic Jap soldiers welcome death because to die in battle is to be worshipped as a god."; Listen Boss, Now Listen! - story by Neill C. Wilson; Interesting short BC article reports on the evacuation of the Japanese and the provinces fear that it may come under Japanese attack; Bomber Ferry - The Royal Air Force Ferry Command delivers aircraft to Britain under the command of Sir Frederick Bowhill - article with photos; Toat to Tomorrow - story by Manning Coles; Pianist Ross Pratt - portrait of a Canadian whom U.S. critics have called one of the 'most gifted' younger pianists; Woodbury soap ad featuring photos of Claire Morin of St. Joseph de Beauce, Quebec; Ford Motor Company ad explains their Xray process for examining crankshafts to be used in fighting equipment; Two-colour ad for Hewetson Shoes of Brampton, Ontario. Address label atop front cover. Faint erasure to front cover. Moderate wear. A sound wartime issue. Book
Features: Cover illustration of a sailing scene by William Winter; Allis-Chalmers - Tractor Division colour ad inside front cover extolls the virtues of the new technique of sanitary landfilling; Woodbury Shampoo ad; Nice full-page colour ad for the Oldsmobile ninety-eight deluxe holiday coupe; My Small War with Educators - Dr. Hilda Neatby replies to the detractors of her book 'So Little for the Mind'; 4-H and the Haights of Floral, Saskatchewan - how the eight Haight kids learned rural leadership and efficiency from the 4-H club and helped their father turn a failing farm into a prosperous prize winner - article with many photos; The Race for the Donkerbos Diamonds - story by John Karl; The Thousand Islands - where everyone wants to own an island; What it takes to be a Mountie - Part II of The Mounties, by Alan Phillips; A Cargo of Brides - part 9 of The White and The Gold, by Thomas B. Costain; How I Became a French Chef, by Max Rosenfeld - with photos; What it's like to be half-divorced - Thousands of Canadians are prisoners of our strict marital laws, by Dorothy Sangster; The Art of Losing a Lawsuit, by Harry McNeill; Colour ad for Heinz Soups; Massey-Harris-Ferguson colour photo ad inside back cover proclaims increased farm productivity with their equipment; Coke ad on back cover shows lady with white had and grey and white striped dress. Average wear. Address label on front cover. 2"x2" chip from fore-edge of back cover. A sound copy. Book
Features: News piece on furor over new Social Insurance (SIN) numbers; The Battle of Nouveau Quebec - how the territorial ambitions of Rene Levesque may yet bring down our government; Can these men really figure out Canada? - the intricacies of the biggest royal commission ever, the Dunton-Laurendeau Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism; How K.C. Irving wields his power - concluding a three part series on the complex man who dominates New Brunswick; The Great Money Panic of 1963 - a recreation of the four days when Canadians learned who really runs the economy (a fascinating and little-known story); The Greatest Canadian-bred ever - how Northern Dancer, 'overpriced at $25k' earned his first quarter million; How Kahn-Tineta Horn became an Indian - a young native who has grown proud of his race; The Bachelor Party Circuit - a pretty girl (Marika Robert) describes her holiday in Jamaica with everything.. but bachelors; When Mounties were imported - a retired RCMP senior officer recalls colleagues like the Honourable Eustace; W.O Mitchell claims all westerners are snobs. Nice colour ad for the 1964 Chevrolet Impala Sport Sedan. Average wear and soiling. Book
Features: Cover art by Franklin Arbuckle shows man selling flowers to Grey Cup lineup; Colour photo Parker Pen ad inside front cover; Editorial - 'Why Appease South Africa?'; Fantastic 4-page section of black and white photos of vintage toys plus descriptions - a list of Christmas toys provided by The Canadian Playthings Institute; Karsh Photographs the Face of Canada - beginning with Vancouver, 'A City Built on Timber - Water is a Secondary Theme' - the first of ten picture essays; Is the Liberal Party on the Ropes? - defeats of Liberal leaders in six provinces; They'll Keep the Pace - The New Pioneers of the Peace River Country, with colour photos; The Most Beautiful Girl on TV - Toby Robins - with 16 black and white photos; How to Bring Up an Only Child; The Spritely Czar of the CPR - William Van Horne; The City Where Dancing's A Crime - Trois Rivieres, Quebec - article with six black and white photos; Thoughts on Mackenzie King, by Bruce Hutchison; The Killer in the Snow - story by Will F. Jenkins, illustrated by Ben Turner; Granpa was a Freshman - at 52 Allan Hull enrolled at the University of British Columbia - with 3 photos; Lovely colour Kodak photo ad shows mother recording her son's height on doorframe; Great full-page colour illustrated Coke ad displays the four seasons; The Face that People Forget - Alec Guiness; *Fantastic* eight-page colour centerfold ad section for Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge and Plymouth 1953 models; Colour photo ad for Heinz Soups; Colour-illustrated ads for Sunbeam Coffeemaster and Mixmaster; Two-colour ad for Austin cars; Colour ad for Waterman's Pens with Christmas theme; Ad for the General Electric Rotary Ironer; Colour full-page ad for Chevrolet; Nice colour Old Dutch ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
36 pages. Cover: Workers Alliance of America March in Washington. Contents: Far East: Japan Risks Whole Army and Navy in 1,500-Mile Offensive to Assert Supremacy; Relief: Questions and Answers Tell Story of Costly and Unsolved Mystery (Workers Alliance March); Labor: Profane Irish Expert (Edward F. McGrady) Hired by RCA to End 'Curse'; Massachusetts: Governor (Charles F. Hurley) Lets Memorial (Sacco-Vanzetti) Stay in Storage; Spain: Santander's Captor Gets Warning Form London, Felicitations From Rome; Balkans: Mysteries and Riots Excite Little Entente Powers; U.S.S.R.: Soviet Junior G-Man (Vitalik Arbatyan of Baku) Sets Examples for Older Boys; Cuba: Fourteen Men in a Boat Give the Army Police a Fright; Education: Jerome Davis Leans to C.I.O. (Committee for Industrial Organization), Embarrasses Yale; Nazis: Exchange Students End Training For Foreign Service; Foundations: New Research to Honor a Negro (Moses Carver) and a Diabetic (Renziehausen); Bacteriophage: Germ Eaters Are Whirled into Visibility; Grafting: New Bureau Formed to Deal in Skin and Cartilage; Entomology: Dr. L.R. Watson Breeds Gentle, Cowlike Bees; Missionaries: The Elders, Back From Iran, Are Surprised; Baseball: Cubs and Giants Gallop to a Photograph Finish; Golf: (Johnny) Goodman Is Best Man at Amateur Links Ceremonies; Screen: Refrigerated Comedy Puts Cinderella on Ice Skates in "Thin Ice" Starring Tyrone Power and Sonja Henie; Money: (Federal Reserve) Board Prescribes Discount Duts as Antidote for Treasury Nightmare; Jewelry: Orchids and Credit Help Galvanize Bauble Business; Living Costs: 864 Ways to Buy Hats, Keep Eggs, Save Gas; Painter: Mississippian (John McCrady) Turns to Delta Negroes for Subjects; and Today in America: Another Spain? Full Color Vintage Ad for Chesterfield Cigarettes in baseball game motif on back cover . Binding intact. Small mailing label bottom front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
40 pages. Contents: Roosevelt Tour Widens Rift With Old-Line Democrats: But Phantom Purge Ends as a Mere Good-Will Pilgrimage Before He Takes to Sea; (James) Farley Tells All: Reveals Inside Story of Roosevelt Nomination; Oklahoma Circus: "Sooners" Rename (Elmer) Thomas in Free-for-All Campaign; WPA (Works Progress Administration) at the Polls; 'Flour, Not Pork': Texas Hillbilly (W. Lee O'Daniel) Carries on Traditions of Huey Long; 40 Million a Month: Old-Age Assistance Program Now Adopted in All States; Wage-Hour Czar: New Yorker (E.F. Andrews) Appointed Administrator of New Act; Binding the Ties of Democracy: Paris Hails British Monarch - King George (VI)'s Adherence to Course Set by His Father Pleases All Britain; Danger in August: Nazis' Demands on Prague Stir Fears of New Crisis; The Duce (Benito Mussolini) as Nordic: All Italians (Except Jews) 'Aryan and Heroic' He Says; Help for Refugees; Deserters of Geneva: Venezuela Joins Flight from Crumbling League (of Nations); China's Lives: Japanese Pin Hopes on Inland Naval Offense; The Search for Security: 5,000 Debate World Problems at Charlottesville; Greyhound at Goshen: Harness Veterans Polish Up for Hambletonian; Catholics Open Drive to Clear up Misconceptions of Church's Policies; Swallows vs. Mosquitoes: Rome Hopes Birds Will Make Pontine Marshes Livable; Boom in Child Stars: Shirley Temple Still Leads in Box Office Lure; Cameramen Take Up Polo: Free Press Crew Challenges World on Rented Ponies; World Pins Hope of Recovery on U.S. Business Leadership: League of Nations Experts See Economic Problems Easier to Solve Than in 1929; AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration) Dilemma: Tobogganing Prices Spread Discontent in Wheat Bowl; U.S. Deficit Rises to $3,984,887,000; Weirton Fireworks: Ouster of Defense Counsel Halts Long NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) Hearing; and Perspective: Why the Purge Petered Out. Binding intact. Contents clean and unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
39 pages. Features: Why I Fled Russia - Scientist Dr. Mikhail Klochko's own story of his defection to Canada (part 1 of 4); Mitzi Gaynor's $40,000/week comeback; A Dam to make the Prairie Bloom - The South Saskatchewan River Dam slowly takes shape - great colour photos; Cultivate a new skill or interest and start developing it into an avocation for later years (part 3 of 3); Has Success Spoiled Rudy Pilous - He won the Stanley Cup as coach of the Chicago Black Hawks; Colour Birks Jewelry centerfold; Neil Harnish and his war with the Canadian Army at Camp Gagetown, New Brunswick; Maud Watt - angel of the north brought beaver back to the Quebec wilderness; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
58 pages. Features: Cover illustration of boy standing in icy water; Nostalgic one-page illustrated ad for the circular Western Electric 560-AW loudspeaker; Marriage for Two (fiction by Roche); President Elect Herbert Hoover - It's Going To Be Different; Other Men's Poison (fiction by Roark Bradford); Thunder in the Backfield - Grantland Rice reviews the star-studded running backs of 1928, with photos of Ken Strong N.Y.U., and Chris Cagle of Army; In Loving Memory (fiction by Fred Sweet); "Too Collegiate" - fiction by Lucian Cary; Good Clean Fun - two pages of charming vintage illustrations of how people amused themselves before movies, radios and cars; The Ticker's In a Jam - great photo-illustrated article explaining stock ticker technology; Cabaret (fiction by O.C. Cohen); The Kid's Clever - Part 2 of the Gus Edwards story; Marvelous one-page illustrated ad for Flexible Flyer includes their seven sled models for children, plus an illustration of Commander Byrd at the South Pole; I Can Pick Winners, But - A famous horse racing handicapper explains why he still works for a living; The Shepherd of Guadaloupe, by Zane Grey (part VIII); Nice one-page Atwater Kent Radio ad includes photos of their Models 40 A.C., 42 A.C., a Model E circular speaker, Model 44 A.C., and Model 52 A.C.; Master of Sinister House (fiction by E. P. Oppenheim); Nice one-page color ad for the 50 box of Gillette shaving blades; Color centerfold ad for Remington Rand procalims "The Emancipation of the American Business Man" with illustration of "the bent and withered office drudge"; Nice one-page Edgeworth pipe tobacco ad includes illustration of their four-sized tin and letter from one F.W. Fitzpatrick; Classy one-page photo-illustrated ad by Bosch Radio (American Bosch Magneto Corporation) displays their Model 29B, 28A and features photo of the Model 28; Marvelous one-page ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes includes illustration and endorsement of Lady Grace Drummond Hay, the first woman to fly the Atlantic from Europe to the United States, aboard the Graf Zeppelin (which is also illustrated in the ad); Smoth Brothers' cough drops ad includes photo of vaudeville comedian Joe Cook; Quarter-page illustrated ad for Daisy Air Rifles - "That's What Our Boy Has Been Asking For"; Classic back cover Victrola ad displays their Models 835, 918, 43, 711, 255, and 1069. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
74 pages. Articles: How We Won - F.D.R. Jr.'s own story of his first political victory; Cool Reading for August; The Biggest Blast of the All (part 1 of 2) - The Untold Secrets Behind the bombing of Hiroshima - with photo of Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.; Hoyt of the Hambletonian - harness racing story with color photos; There They Were! Jet Hop to Europe - the first transatlantic jet ferrying mission; Charmer for a Nice Fee - Charlie Feldman and his Famous Artists Agency - article with nice color photo; Voyage of the Pagan - John Caldwell's Sailing Struggle to Australia (conclusion); Attractive Nuisance; The Legal Bride (part 2 of 6); The Drunkard's Wife; A Horse I Like; Then There Was Light; Moment of Doubt; Keep Up with the World; Picnic (by Stanley and Janice Berenstain with verse by Margaret Fishback; The Movie Audience. Are (The Ku Klux Klan) The Children of God? - Editorial with good color photo. Nice vintage ads for: Borden (with Elsie the cow); Willys-Overland 'Jeep' Trucks; International Trucks; Lucky Strike (featuring Dan Currin); General Motors (2 pages); Kodak; Silver Star Razors - featuring golfer Craig Wook, test pilot Gene May, Quarterback Bob Waterfield and American Airlines Chief Pilot, Harry Clark; Budweiser; The U.S. Army; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features nice collor image of Yvonne De Carlo and a smaller illustration of Powell L. Rogers of Mullins, S.C. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: An Intimate Talk with John Galsworthy; A Mixture No Nation Can Stand - America's stomach revolts at concoction of outlawed liquor crooked politics; America Writes A Book - the most crowded field of endeavor in this country; The Price-Fixing Association - how it ingeniously evades those troublesome anti-trust laws; Birth-Control - A World Blight - in this second article on birth control, Father McClorey says if propaganda succeeds, earth will become a desolate planet, driving through space, as dead as the moon; Pere Gilbault, le Coureur des Bois - a man of northern Michigan, philosopher, and artist for art's sake; Mr. Ford's Page - "The Economic Value of Accuracy is impossible to exaggerate"; Editorials - the Eucharistic Congress, Wilhelm Hohenzollern retains his estates in Germany, the 'dry' hearings in Washington, the manipulation of money; An Intimate Story of a Best Seller - struggling author finds publisher and new novel reaches an appreciative public; What's the Matter with the Ministers? - do our American preachers lack conviction concering the substance and efficacy of their message?; Voyage of the Victoria - Patagonia (part 6); Chats with Office Callers; The Fighting Quaker Who Made Cannon - Rhode Island and South Carolina Signers Included Stephen Hopkins, Outlawed by his Co-Religionists; A Dance a Week - Dictionary of Dance Terms; A Dog Molded a Man's Career - Bernhardt Wall and "Man's Best Friend"; News snippets include 'Gallic Ire vs. Cockney Sarcasm', 'Hooks and Eyes, Buttons and Religion', Joseph Conrad was not a Jew, Japs Ardently Copy Our Mistakes, Two Extremes of the Law, and Shoe Leather Hits Orient; Charming photos of kids from around the world, including four-year-old Pearl Hay of London. Middle page loose but present. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
212 pages. Fold-out frontispiece plan of Chisamba 1913, plus 26 pages of black and white plates consisting mainly of wonderful photos plus some maps. Includes chronology of Chisamba. The inspiring history of the ambitious Christian missions operated in Angola, West Central Africa, by the American Board and Canada Congregational F.M.S. General foxing to edges and contents. Minimal light pencil markings to contents, otherwise unmarked with somewhat above-average wear to olive cloth-covered boards. Back hinge starting. A sound reference copy of this remarkable history. Book
86 pages. Articles: Chiselers' Holidy - long vacations on unemployment money; Our Job in Italy - Communism isn't beaten yet; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (5) - further negotiations with Stalin/the true story of the Atlantic Charter; Dancing-School Bonanza - the big business of teaching rumba, samba and tango; Joan of Arc - the movie starring Ingrid Bergman; Guinea Pig for Cancer - an experiment with atomic energy; Warren Warm-Up - appraising California's governor as a presidential candidate. Fiction: Ring-Shy; Death Had a Voice; The Man Who Painted Himself Blue; What Would You Do?; The Branble Bush (part 3 of 5); The General was an Honest Man. Ads include: Heinz ketchup (great photo ad); Toastmaster; Vitalis (with Lloyd Mangrum); Philco; Crosley fridges; Hudson cars; Auto-Lite spark plugs (featuring Ann Sheridan); Firestone Super-Balloon tires; Chevrolet trucks; 1949 Ford cars; Coke - large illustration of soda fountain; Dodge Trucks; Lord Calvert Whiskey - featuring full-page color-photo of author Hassoldt Davis; Walt Disney's "Melody Time" movie; Trailways bus lines; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Fascinating news bits inside front cover; Woodrow Wilson Was Best and Worst Copy - his passion for accuracy conflicted with newspapermen who ignored serious things to ask him 'what he ate for breakfast' - part 3; Housekeeping in Our Paris Flat - how two Americans fared in the French Capital and "Got to Love Passy"; ; Never Separated a Single Family - open-door immigration specialists slander the United States Government - Rabbi Stephen Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, urges passage of the most liberal of all the liberalizing measures - the Perlman bill; Life and Death on the Screen - A.C. Pillsbury films bacteria and pollen in action - motion pictures of flower fertilization; What's the Matter With Jim? - the story of a boy who would only work when he thought it play; Mr. Ford's Page - interesting thoughts on the forces involved with prohibition; Editorials - major criticism of the World Court and claim that in Michigan a list of Americans targetted for assassination by communists has been found; Golf - Can You Pick the Champions? - Americans will attempt to capture leading British honors - article with photos of Glenna Collett, Francis Ouimet, Macdonald Smith, Walter Hagen, Watts Gunn, Long Jim Barnes, Bobby Jones and Robert Gardner; Lincoln's Murder - Amazing Man Hunt - John Surratt and Papal Zouave accused of the crime, who leaped for liberty over a hundred-foot precipice - article with photos of John Surratt, John Wilkes Booth and Mrs. Mary Surratt; What it Costs the Chinese to Worship Their Ancestors - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Is America a Nation of Coffee-Bibbers? - Its people drink upward of forty billions of cups of this seductive beverage each year, consuming more than half of World's Production; Union of Irish and Jews in recent 'propaganda' plays - Abie's Irish Rose, Kosher Kitty Kelly; Great Writers Who Have Failed as Novelists; Seeking to Know What the Earth is Made of - the work of Professor Stjepan Mohorovicic and others; When the Broker Breaks the Law; A Dance a Week - The Lancers, a graceful square dance - first two figures, with piano sheet music (to be continued); Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis, Oregon offers course in the guardianship of a real baby; The Jolly Old Pedagogue; Back cover features illustration of and quotation by Henry Thoreau. Small chip from fore-edge of front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
