Life Magazine – February 7, 1918 (# 1841) – Love Aloft

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Cover : Soldier and girl sitting on the fuselage of a bi-wing airplane and kissing, art by Angus MacDonall.

– Full page color ad for Pall Mall, “Friends.”
– Full page black and white ads for Macbeth Lens (auto headlamps … Macbeth Lens complies with laws, does not imperil with blinding glare), Mimeograph,
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harry Grant Dart (United States Ordinance Department humor), F. T. Richards (January), Rea Irvin (A day in the life of a German reservist), Gluyas Williams (Vaudeville Troupes could be good at the war front), Charles Forbell (Now that eggs are scarce, why not breed larger fowls?).
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “The hand of God,” battlefield scene with Hand pointing at cowering German.
– Some current events include : Members of the Cabinet should be chosen from Congress and allowed to retain their seats; Stories of army mismanagement have been painful; Too many good young lives have been lost by cold, lack of clothing and incompetent and negligent treatment of sick men; Most of the troubles of our camps have come from repeated speeding up of our military program; We currently have 15,000 Marines in the area of Tampico ready for whatever is getting ready to pop in Mexico.
– Excellent but sad half page cartoon by Rodney Thomson pertaining to Red Cross giving money to vivisectionists for experimenting on live animals.
– Small photos of French war orphans : The Begue children with Jean (Baby 99), The Dufournet family with Germaine (1773).
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1918 content – fun!