Life Magazine – July 24, 1919 (# 1917) – Girl Comforting Fight Loser

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Cover : Girl comforting the loser of a brawl, while the winning boy looks on in envy, art by Victor C. Anderson.

– Artists and cartoonists include W. K. Starett, Angus MacDonall, Rodney Thomson, Walter De Maris (full page, two ladies skinny dipping in a private pond), Paul Reilly, R. B. Fuller, P. Llanuza (probably, full page), W. O. Wilson, Calvert, Paul Goold, C. D. Gibson (full page), Chester I. Garde, Rea Irvin, Walter Tittle (full page), Sullivant, Norman Anthony, H. T. Webster (probably), Charles Forbell, Clarence Daniel Batchelor, A. B. Walker, and others.
– Cover of this issue has a notice telling readers, when they’ve finished reading it, to put a stamp on the cover and drop the magazine in the mail and it will be delivered to soldiers, sailors or marines.
– Two page center spread art by Wm. H. Walker.
– The loves of the oysters, poem by Arthur Guiterman.
– Ode to heat, by Mabel Haughton Collyer.
– The call of the hills, poem by Perrin Holmes Lowrey.
– Membership of a typical golf club.
– Current topics include Victory parade in France, Peace Treaty, Sir Edward Carson, Judge Cohalan, the Irish cause, Dr. Abraham Jacobi, and more.
– From Hoboken to Chicago, announcement of Life’s proposed dirigible trip arouses intense enthusiasm.
– Surf bathing by Jeannette Phillips Gibbs.
– Full page Macbeth Lens ad for hooded car headlights.
– And more.