Life Magazine – February 20, 1931 (# 2520) – City Rooftop Maze

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Cover : Old gentleman holding a clippers and looking with dismay at the maze of wires crossing his roof, art not signed but style looks like Ed Graham.

– Full page color Crane fixtures ad with huge pink and blue bathroom with fancy Louis XVI Trianon gold fitting.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Kemp Starrett (The millennium maker), Edwina (Sinbad : but it’s nicer to lie in bed!),
– Two page art from Life May 1, 1924, “Life’s fundamentalist museum,” art by Oliver Herford.
– Some current events include : Red Cross per week gives families in Arkansas $2 each plus 50 cents per child, People are afraid of the dole, “Major General Smedley Butler is a model of indiscretion and yet he seldom says anything that hurts anybody but himself,”  Al Capone has 6000 state and federal officials on his payroll.
– “Once in a while the thought begins to circulate that we haven’t got the right people in jail … as it appears now in New York in the delousing of the courts, the inquiry into bank failures and other incidents.”
– A long poem by Arthur L. Lippmann, “Houses of Cards” about brownstones.
– Lovely full page Cadillac ad with maroon and gold car.
– And much, much more.