Life Magazine – January 31, 1918 (# 1840) – Norman Rockwell

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Cover : Four young soldiers singing around the campfire, “Over there,” wonderful art by Norman Rockwell.

– OUR BOYS NUMBER.
– Full page color ads for Marmon 34 Town Car (Striking dark blue car on black background, not signed), Columbia Grafonola.
– Full page ads for Life magazine title contest Franklin automobile company (no art), Locomobile, New York Life insurance, Velvet tobacco (art by M. Leone Bracker with snowman that looks like grandpa with his pipe).
– Half page Eastman Kodak ad with photo of soldier sitting in his tent looking at another photo from home.
– Full page art or cartoon art by William H. Walker (It’s a pleasure and a duty to be here … soldier talking to fighting Lady France), William H. Walker (Famous Prussians), Charles Dana Gibson (Until he comes back), Angus MacDonall (Her Son’s Star … lady gazing up a large Service flag hanging over the entrance to a store), Gluyas Williams (daily life in Petrograd), Charles Forbell (Why not let the public deal with the profiteer?).
– Small photos of fatherless French children Baby 1515 Huguette Beranger Baby 1690 Roger Bonnenfant and his brother Maurice Bonnenfant and sister Madeleine Bonnenfant, Baby 1364 Joseph Murdron and his brother.
– Two page centerspread art by Harrison Cady, Following the Flag, Young soldier lad leaving home to go to war, he is getting in line behind ghosts of men doing the same for earlier wars.
– Some current events include : Coal shortage partly due to stretches of bad weather, Our war-machine is not doing a perfect job (freight jam, work inefficiencies, troops poorly trained and poorly equipped).
– And much, much more.