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68 pages. Features and Articles: Nice colour photo Studebaker ad inside front cover; Journalist Robert Low returns from reporting the news for three years on each side of the Balkans' lowering iron curtain; The North Atlantic Treaty is announced; Shostakovich applies to visit the U.S.; Allen Ellender's filibuster record in Louisiana; Federal Judge Medina and his trial of eleven communists charged with conspiring to overthrow the government; Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. announces for the seat of the 20th district on Manhattan's West Side; Dave Beck of the A.F.L. Teamsters; Boston's Anna Sullivan and the illegitimate child she sought to hide; William L. Cox and his truck wreck; Red Rioters in Rome; The Kremlin's white paper on the North Atlantic pact; Gotfred Hoelvold crosses teh border between Norway and Russia; "about 500,000 Arabs are now refugees from areas of Palestine controlled by the Israeli army. Jews - most of them refugees from Europe - have taken over the Arabs' communities. John Luter reports from the former Arab community of Akir"; Anti-communism and Luigi Gedda in Italy; Moscow's Literary Gazette declare's Tolstoy's Pocket Books version of Anna Karenina a 'monstrous crime against world culture'; The Amir of Bahawalpur; Colour recruiting ad for the Canadian Army Active or Reserve Forces; Caterpillar ad says 'Stop Murder at Crossroads!' and implores readers to invest in overpasses and underpasses; Johnny Groth - a choice of scholarships; Professor Chauncey Tinker of Yale; Fargo Truck ad; Peter Mennin; Herbert Zipper; Cover story - Aviation - Juan Trippe and Pan American Airways; Colour South African wine ad inside back cover. "Editorial content identical with U.S. edition except for added Canadian news". Average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose from one staple, otherwise a sound copy. Book
74 pages Features: Charlie Brannan and his Wonderful World - The Secretary of Agriculture; Who Said Promised Land? - transplanted Europeans fled tyranny only to find disillusionment and tragedy in the sugar lands of Louisiana - article with moving photos; The Actor Who Won't Stay Dead - Rudolph Valentino - article with photos; Broadway Ticket Scandal; The Old Home Town Fights to Live - Lexington, Illinois - article with good photos; A One-Shot Cure for Syphilis; Sawyer of the Phillies - Freshman Manager Eddie Sawyer; Vivien Kellems; The Iron Butterfly (part 1 of 4); Very Unusual in California; Freddy Fowler and the Ace; My Birthday's in July; The Golden Dart (conclusion); Morning After. Nice ads for: Gem razor blades; Herbert Tareyton cigarette ad featuring color photo of Miss Gladys Munn Pulitzer; Admiral portable radios; RCA Victor radios; Fisher Body; Seagram's Gin; B.V.D. clothing; Westinghouse fridges; Kleenex Tissues - features Little Luli and Tubby; Super Canada Dry full-page colour ad features their Spur Cola, Ginger Ale, Club Soda and Hi-Spot; The Martin Viking, by Martin Aircraft; Scotch Cellophane Tape; Packard cars; Lucky Strike (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
94 pages. Articles: New Menace in Missouri - Charles (Boss) Binaggio and criminality - article with photos; Can the C.I.O. Get Rid of the Commies?; The Town the G.I.s called "Smith" - Natchitoches, Louisiana - article with nice photos; Pilotless Fighter Plane of Tomorrow - a convincing argument that machines are about to outdistance us mortals, with nice color illustrations by Birney Lettick - a very prescient article; What Gives in Rasslin'? - article with fantastic photos of wrestlers including Gorgeous George, Jim Londos, Bronko Nagurski, Maurice Tillet (the angel), Lee Henning, Sandor Szabo, Man Mountain Dean, Ernie Dusek, Strangler Lewis; Nicest Guy in Washington - General Omar Bradley; Strangest Garden in the World - At the Argonne National Laboratory Dr. Norbert J. Scully produces radioactive drugs and other plant products which cannot be manufactured - article with photo. Fiction: One Came Back; A Dinner For Lily; Bootleger's Treasure (part 2 of 4); Decorator's Helper; Where They Make the Wine; No Need to Hustle. Includes these nice vintage ads; Borden - featuring Elsie the Cow; Willys Station Wagon (Jeep); International Trucks; Oldsmobile cars; Arro Shirts; Firestone; Plymouth; Hickok men's accessories; Haband Company Ties (nice two-page color ad); Fisher body; Canada Dry; Dodge cars; Mallory hats; Del Monte Catsup; New Hudson cars; United Aircraft; Silver Star razor blades - featuring several notable men; Monarch canned fruit and veggies (nice colour full-page); Nice Sheaffer's pen ad on back cover. Three-inch opening to bottom of cover fold. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Pages 90-176 plus 16 pages of ads. Features: The Slacker - a young Californian deserts the Army and his lady to flee to Mexico where great misery follows, but he eventually atones; The Mysterious Witch Doctors of Siberia - disguised as a Russian peasant, the author penetrated into little-known Siberia to investigate the uncanny doings of the native Shamans - article with photos; My Island of Dreams - Part II - the adventures of Amateur Robinson Crusoe, J.W. Frings (with photos); Through Central America on Horseback - Part V - riding through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - story with photos of earthquake damage in Guatemala City; Mountain Mysteries - the strange story of Mr. Crump who was lost for 18 days in the Lakeland crags, plus other cases of mysterious disappearances; Cheating Death - John Edwin Hogg recounts his most harrowing experience; A Bear-Hunt in Lousiana - interesting and successful hunt in the Louisiana Marsh - with photos; My Burglar - a Singapore encounter with a Chinese burglar, stripped naked and greased from head to foot, with fish-hooks in his pigtail and a double-edged sword between his teeth; The Rajah's Lift - the tragic story of a home-made hydraulic lift; The New Moon - information in a diary saves the lives of two men; A Man's Luck - Part III of Hjalmar Hutzebeck's story of life and love in the Far North; Photo and brief write-up of the world's most northerly police post; Photo of the smallest business house in the world in Duncan, Oklahoma; 'House of Gold' built by a wealthy miner in the California's Mojave Desert; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Back cover almost loose. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
In-8°; pp. 65, Due piccoli timbri a inchiostro al frontespizio. Resoconto delle attività delle missioni cattoliche in america del nord sotto il vescovo Du Bourg, la cui diocesi includeva l’Ohio, Mississippi, e le valli del Missouri. Du Bourg arrivò a Baltimora nel 1817 con un gruppo di preti e monache, e da lì viaggiò fino a Saint Louis. In quest’opera si riportano le attività svolte principalmente con gli Indiani. SABIN 55987
Interessante raffigurazione di buona parte orientale degli Stati Uniti. Si trovano raffigurati i territori di New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginie, Caroline, Georgie, Floride e Louisiane.Il titolo è iscritto in decorativo cartiglio nell'angolo in basso a destra.Coloritura confinale coeva all'acquerello. Alcuni segni del tempo che non compromettono l'ottimale stato di conservazione generale della carta.