Life Magazine – March 4, 1920 (# 1948) – Airplane and Sphinx

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Cover : Bi-wing airplane flying over the Sphinx, “The Stranger,” art by Power O’Malley.

– Full page ads for Michelin Double Cord tires (color, blue, orange and white art with big Michelin man) , La Creole laboratories hair treatment (color, with nice historic art by C. F. Church), United States Tires / United States Rubber Company (go to a legitimate dealer), Waltham watches (Proof), Hansen gloves style 900, Columbia Six automobile ad (with art, A Car of Enthusiasm), Addressograph (Burroughs Adding Machine Company), The Cheney radio player, W. and J. Sloane Domestic rugs, Ide Collars for men’s shirts (art probably by Leyendecker), New York Life Insurance company (with company balance sheet), Chase Drednaut Motor Topping (color, with nice art of red and black car on dark and stormy night, not signed, Defies time and the elements), Velvet tobacco (Color, with Marshal Foch).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Ellison Hoover (If the masters had drawn for the Sunday papers), Charles Dana Gibson (Who said I couldn’t stand that?, Uncle Sam and the League of Nations), William Balfour-Ker (Fate),
– Prudence, poem by Mabel Haughton Collyer and art by Angus MacDonall.
– Two page centerspread art by Angus MacDonall, The Helpmate, a couple and their two children sitting in front of the fireplace.
– Some current events include : Spring as yet comes hard with going not good in the city and travel difficult and impeded in the country districts, Peace Treaty, Mr. Hoover speaks to the American Mining Engineers, Merchant Marine problem, General Wood says the outstanding need in America today is education, Europe clinging to the public theory that Germany will pay for the war.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1920 content – fun!