Life Magazine – July 26, 1929 (# 2438) – Holmgren

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Cover : Woman speeding past a motorcycle policeman, “Pulling a fast one,” art by R. John Holmgren.

– Full page color Stutz and Blackhawk car ad with curious color-shadow art in pink, purple and grey.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Garrett Price (The Ship News photographer takes a day off … he is taking a picture of his girlfriend), Edwina (C’m on in – th’ water’s fine!!), Gardner Rea (Impressions of Magazine Offices : House and Garden), Dr. Seuss (Life’s Little Educational Charts : the idioms of Iceland at a glance), R. B. Fuller (Baby’s bath … one girl in the water at the beach with a ring of men), Strothmann (Neptune awards the bathing beauty prizes), Stylized H (Intimate moments with Famous people : the weatherman’s holiday).
– Life invites the readers to name Edwina’s dog, the prize will be a pedigreed wire-haired fox terrier dog.
– In the News : Greenwood, Arkansas : In his will, E. S. Alexander, former school teacher, left $30,000 to the public schools here with the proviso that no pupil, no matter what the offense, should ever be whipped in any school in which the money is used.  The school board has accepted.
– In the News : Worcester, Massachusetts : Reading a book while driving his automobile at the rate of 25 MPH cost Henry J. Valley, age 22, $50 on the charge of endangering the public.  Henry said that he is trying to educate himself.
– Full page Lucky Strike cigarettes ad with Gordon S. Cochrane, baseball player with the Philadelphia Athletics.
– Full page color Packard car ad with yellow and green car, Austrian gentleman, centers of old world wealth and culture.
– Full page color Coca-Cola ad with man with natty green and white striped coat, white pants, art not signed.
– And much, much more.