Life Magazine – June 1933 (# 2579) – Impossible magazine mergers

Description

Cover : Model of bored woman in fancy evening dress standing in front of headlines full of major news stories, “Nothing Ever Happens,” art by Lester Gaba.

– Full page color ads for Good Year tires (with art of two women driving), Canada Dry’s Sparkling water, Buick (with lovely art of relay runner behind red car), General Dual Balloon tires (with nice art of couple walking dog by white car), Life magazine ad for advertisers showing tableware by Altman, White Star line (with art by Prins), Ethyl gasoline (with art by Frederic Stanley of two young men in green convertible), Lucky Strike cigarettes (with excellent landscape format art by Hayden Hayden).
– Full page black and white ads for Pontiac (with art of car by entry awning), Chevrolet (with sepia), Listerine.
– Special section : IMPOSSIBLE MAGAZINE MERGERS 2 : TIME & Popular Mechanics with sample color cover and two sample interior pages.
– Predictions for the joyful month of June by Jose Schorr, art by Albert Viale.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Tony Balcom (tintype of General Charles G. Dawes), Harry Haenigsen (Airplane dropping a huge number of flyers for “Clean-up week”), Dr. Seuss (My three best tricks and how I do them : Brick Wall Diving, Sawing a size 47 bust in half, Kangaroos out of hat), Edwina (Sinbad : right this way for the big show.  Edwina, who is famous for her dog cartoons, is Frances Edwina Dumm.), Boris Artzybasheff (The OTHER rope, you ass! … two men sailing), Harry Haenigsen (Our X-ray photographer discloses a few things we’ve always wanted to know).
– Two page COLOR art by Russell Patterson, couple looking at bride and bridesmaids, “If you can’t show us something better than that …”
– Some current events include : President Roosevelt in office three months now.
– Nice photo of the girls at the swimming pool at the Fresh Air camp in Branchville, Connecticut.
– And much more 1933   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!