Life Magazine – August 25, 1927 (# 2338) – Beach scene, Rescue of Shipwrecked Sailors

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Cover : Two young ladies in modern beach wear on the beach, with young man buried in the sand behind them, “Bury me not on the lone prai-ree,” art by Garrett Price.

– Full page color ads for Advertising (some color, art by Don Herold), Packard cars (Enduring style, with art of the Taj Mahal), Marmon cars (Jewel colors, emerald, Series 75 Victoria).
– Full page black and white ads for Metropolitan Life Insurance.
– Cute half page art by Bruce Bairnsfather (Everyday deeds that pass unsung : the man who tests new zeppelins for leaks … blowing one up manually!).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Johnny Gruelle (Yahoo Center : Doc Beazly’s auto throws a wheel), C. H. Sykes (And just when I was beginning to make some noise!  Coolidge withdraws), Ellison Hoover (Little known industries : fattening doormen on a doorman farm in New Jersey),
– Half page photo of boys saluting the American flag at Life’s Fresh Air Camp.
– One third page artwork by jack Farr = William Gordon Farr (a favorite artist of 2Neat : Things we read about but never see : the police throwing their dragnet over the city to bag a criminal).
– And, another cute Farr artwork, half page, (The back-seat drivers’ club holds it annual outing).  
– Two page centerspread art by Anton Otto Fischer, Saved!, Men on the deck of a sailing ship looking at some shipwrecked sailors they have just rescued.
– Some current events include : Murder trial of Scco and Vanzetti in Massachusetts, Mr. Coolidge has withdrawn from the presidential race, General Wood was injured in an accident in Cuba.
– And much, much more.