Life Magazine – April 17, 1924 (# 2163) – Baseball Breaks Window

– Much on Baseball, spoofy fun!
– Full page color Michelin Balloon Comfort Cords tires ad with two Michelin men in a hot air balloon, yellow and white on dark blue.
– Full page Hart Schaffner & Marx mens’ clothing ad with golf theme, very nice artwork is likely by J. C. Leyendecker, but is not signed.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Edwin B. Henry (part of a Marmon car ad), Oliver Heford (Ain’t that the cat’s whiskers?), Charles Dana Gibson (The nonconformist), Fred G. Cooper (O Bright spring day!), P. L. Crosby (Skippy : fight at baseball game), C. H. Sykes (Spring training), Don Herold (I am a failure), McClelland Barclay (part of a Fisher Bodies ad), James Montgomery Flagg (part of a Pall Mall cigarettes ad).
– Two page centerspread art by Gluyas Williams, “The National Game.”
– Some current events include : Mr. Daugherty was fired by Coolidge, Congress unanimously authorized the coinage of five million silver half-dollars commemorating the inauguration of the Stone Mountain Confederate Monument near Atlanta, Borglum, Two new Cardinals, Beginning of a clean-up of roadside advertising.
– GORGEOUS full page color Holeproof Hosiery ad with art by C. Coles Phillips of woman in lilac slip sitting on drop leaf table.
– And much, much more.