Life Magazine – July 3, 1931 (# 2539) – Fisherman’s Luck

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Cover : Little child hold a daisy to nose, GORGEOUS and charming art by the excellent Nell Hott.

– Full page color ads for Sheaffer’s pens and pencils, Ethyl gasoline (Dart away with ethyl … with mackerel).
– Full page black and white ads for Listerine, American Golfer magazine, Winner’s of the Life contest for a caption to the art pertaining to the new golf ball, Full page of articles about new golf ball excerpted from other publications.
– Full page art or cartoon art by J. Cassell (Male aviator buying sandwiches for himself and a fellow female aviator), Garrett Price (Oh the great out-doors – how I love them!), Edwina (Sinbad : Candy Cracker), Ed Graham (The spirit of 1931), Harrison Cady (Reprinted from Life July 2, 1908, The Fourth in our village).
– I object to the torture inflicted on characters in magazine serials!
– CUTE : A city man crosses a country road (he waits until the car is almost there and then dashes across right in front of it), art by I. Klein.
– Two page centerspread art by Clifford McBride (Fisherman’s Luck … lots of funny things that can befall a boating fisherman … he eventually goes home with a chicken).
– Beginning next week in Life : articles written by Ely Culbertson on Contract bridge.
– Some current events include : National Flag Day, Dr. Murray Bulter is in Paris for the Carnegie Peace Foundation, Dr. Harold B. Clark has been arrested and tells of an organization to steal rare books from libraries and sell them, Families of policemen killed in the line of duty should be taken care of.
– And much more 1931   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!