Life Magazine – December 16, 1920 (# 1989) – Norman Rockwell

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Cover : Two young children and a cat waiting for Santa at the fireplace, “Is he coming?,” art by Norman Rockwell.

– Much pertaining to Christmas.
– Full page color ads for Michelin tires, A. B. Chase Piano Company  (with art of a naked lady playing a Jubilee Harp outdoors), Fatima cigarettes (with art of couple at gala, art by Oberhardt.
– Full page black and white ads for Chandler Six motor cars, Mimeograph (with nice art of woman checking a negative), Warren’s standard printing papers
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harold Tucker Webster (There ain’t no Santy Claus ner nothin’!), Charles Dana Gibson (Between seasons : woman standing between old man and young man), Charles Forbell (A Roman triumph : the conquering hero), Gluyas Williams (From the diary of Comrade Blabb, labor agitator), W. J. Enright (Give a thought to Cuba, exercising the alligators in the zoo at Santiago), Ellison Hoover (An American Home : if we are to believe the newspaper comic artist)
– Nice half page artwork by C. F. Peters with ski theme, “Where did you hear such an awful story about her?  She was at a tea I attended yesterday, and she left before the others.”
– Letters from a Japanese schoolboy, will Hon. Republican party reduce the high cost of wealth?
– Interesting half page ad for American Telephone and Telegraph Company pertaining to February 1881 blizzard that ripped 2,400 phone wires from the roof of the Boston Bell telephone building, with art to illustrate.
– Two page centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson, A real Santa Claus, donating baskets of food to the poor.
– Some current events include : Christmas is imminent this week, Strife in Ireland, Infusion of politics by the Union Club into the Cathedral church, Dr. Butler of Columbia College says that it costs too much and teachers are not well qualified.

– And much, much more.