Life Magazine – August 28, 1931 (# 2547) – Are you Color Blind?

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Cover : Traffic cop admonishing driver of very colorful car carrying four people in extremely bright and multi-colored clothing, “Hey! Are you color-blind?”, art by W. Kemp Starrett.

– Full page color ads for Good Year tires (with Arch of Titus in Rome), Ethyl Gasoline (Swift as a swallow), Lucky Strike cigarettes (consider your Adam’s apple, with Estelle Skinner).
– Full page black and white ad for Listerine (eggs).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Perry Barlow (Sonny and Patricia … do you hear as much noise as I hear?  Eating toast), Garrett Price (If we can get some good jazz now … couple camping in the deep woods), Edwina (Sinbad : the racketeer … begging at different food shops), Will B. Johnstone (I see in the papers).
– Great dramas in sport by Jack Kofoed.
– One third page photo of swimming pool full of kids at Life’s Fresh Air camp.
– Some current events include : Europe after the war, Wickersham Commission and federal prisons, deportation laws, police interrogation, Flying men, Theodore Roosevelt’s portrait on the five cent stamp does not look like him.
– Two page art reprinted from Life August 8, 1895 by Charles Dana Gibson, The newlyweds had been in their room but a moment when they were startled by a knock … porter bringing luggage.
– And much, much more.