Life Magazine – February 1934 (# 2587) – Bad Woman Driver

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Cover : Woman driving badly, “Whenever I drive through a close place like this, I just close my eyes and trust to luck,” art by Dorothy McKay.

– Full page color ads for Good Year tires (photo? Art? Of policeman writing a ticket in a rainstorm to someone with bald tires), Camel cigarettes (With photos of Champion Cowboy Eddie Woods and Mrs. Phyllis L. Potter of Montclair, New Jersey), Body by Fisher (Two pages : An odd ad with a gorgeous, well-groomed lady, saying you won’t arrive rumpled by the wind), White Rock water and gin (Speaking of liquor control), Martini and Rossi Vermouth, Lucky Strike Cigarettes (with woman in red cape).
– WOW : Full page color artwork by Rolf Armstrong of glamorous lady skier, with poem “zero hour” by Margaret Fishback.
– Full page black and white ads for Ethyl Gasoline (His better judgement), White Star Line (playtime, tea time, waltz time), Dixie Belle Gin, Frankfort Distilleries (Paul Jones and Anlique Whiskey), Emerson’s Bromo-Seltzer,
– Full page art or cartoon art by Albert Viale (February), W. B. Davis (Knee-action, treating a car like a horse), Richard Decker (COLOR : serving drinks from the Grand Piano), George T. Eggelston (rich lady warming her backside in front of the fire after watching a hockey game), Edwina (Sinbad : When he is under the covers he is dreaming of sleeping in front of the fire; on top of the covers dreaming of laying in a snowbank and shivering), Milt Gross (The guy from Mars), Ridgewell (Husband, playing with model train set while his wife rocks baby, being very happy the baby is a boy).
– From Me to You, by Marge.
– Some current events include : Miss Barbara Hutton appealing to the court about her allowance (wanted to buy a $120,000 private rail car, the Woolworth estate money), Miss Hutton is now married to a Georgian prince, Scientists have named two news planets 19,123 WB and WE.
– FOUR PAGES of text by Dr. Seuss, with some illustrations by him, “The facts of life, or, How should I tell my child? Part I.”
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1934 content – fun!

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