Life Magazine – August 16, 1928 (# 2389) – Dog show

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Cover : Winner of the dog show with his blue ribbon, surrounded by all the losing dogs, “The Champion,” art by Robert L. Dickey.

– Full page color ads for Sheaffer’s pens and pencils, Body by Fisher (cars.  Gorgeous art by McClelland Barclay, Style), General Tires (art by Walter Klett, looks like European walled town, Faster get-away).
– Full page black and white ads for Timken Bearings (Art by John Held Jr.), Coty beauty products.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Johnny Gruelle (Yahoo Center … the 39 year-old mare that Newt Ingland …), Alfred Frueh (Revised estimates … fisherman not being a successful as he hoped).
– Curious quarter page artwork by Richard V. Culter that is now not politically correct (a black maid asking her mistress to answer a love letter for her and to please use the word “However”).
– Some current events include : Presidential campaign, researching past voting records, Hoover is the Wet Man’s Hope, Lawn Tennis player William T. Tilden II, Rewriting the history of the American Revolution.
– Quarter page silhouette artwork by Erma Paul Allen (You know, I think Sally has finally married Jack after all!).
– Another cute quarter page artwork by Gordon Hake (The steam shoveler’s lunch hour … shoveling it in).
– And much, much more.