Life Magazine – November 28, 1918 (# 1883) – Norman Rockwell – Happy military men

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Cover : Varied and happy group of military men, “Are we downhearted?,” art by Norman Rockwell, U.S. Naval Reserve Force, U.S. Naval Training Camp, Charleston, South Carolina.

– Full page ads for Robbins & Myers Motors (not signed),  Pall Mall cigarettes.
– Very cool quarter page artwork of a building that looks like a mountain face with a waterfall running down it, “Mountain Life with city conveniences,” art by Arthur T. Merrick.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Rea Irvin (Home-coming of the tired munitions-worker, trudging up the steps of a mansion), William H. Walker (Republican elephant talking to Democrat donkey, I’m as good a soldier as you are, even if your general thinks I’m not), Fred G. Cooper (Cartoonlets), Charles Dana Gibson (The Hohenzollern beans), Charles Forbell (November 11, 1918, the way we all felt, people celebrating in the street), H. T. Webster (Approved method of preventing the escape of prisoners of war, removing buttons and suspenders that are holding up the Kaiser’s pants),
– Small photos of fatherless French children, Baby 3060 Jeanne Poinsignon, Baby 2446 Lucien Boyer and his mother and sister, Baby 2505 Jean Albrecht.
– Two page centerspread art by Calvert, “A Growing family : twins – victory and peace,” a stork carrying two babies to the Allies House.
– Some current events include : There are too many things in the papers now that the war is almost over, German armies are withdrawing under the terms of the armistice from France and Belgium and the Allied troops are following them and taking over the country they abandon, At home war preparations are stopping as fast as possible, Carrie Chapman Catt demands that a woman be on the Peace Council to represent American women voters.
– “Even before the Presidential salary was trebled it was not customary for Presidents to go abroad during their term of office. … If we can stand sending two million men to France to fight, we can probably endure to lend one President to a Peace Council.
– And much, much more.