Life Magazine – March 10, 1927 (# 2314) – Laziest Man

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Cover : Hip flapper girl with two men, art by Russell Patterson.

– Full page color ads for  Buick automobiles (huge long crème and black, open car), Packard automobiles (Reputation, with silver and forest green car), Atwater Kent radio (with oriental theme, Magic!).
– Fascinating Crimes, by Robert Benchley (not true crime reporting).
– Full page black and white ads for Marmon 8 cars (They’re half-a-mile back), Coty (Parfum la Jacee), Metropolitan Life Insurance (Two old men with canes), Sportsman Magazine, Gorham silversmiths (with Alexander MacBeth), Franklin Automobiles (with art, New Smoothness, new power, new speed), Frigidaire (funny ad featuring rubber celery), Lee Tires of Conshohocken (with art by Lyle Justis).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Ellison Hoover (A Chaplin revival), C. H. Sykes (Go ahead, it probably won’t hurt you much!, Censorship as an old lady set to wash The Stage and The Movies), James Montgomery Flagg (Laziest man on the west coast waiting for the six o’clock quake … so he doesn’t have to shake his own martini).
– Two page centerspread art by John Held Jr., done as a pair of one page artworks, at a Fraternity dance there are always too many girls, while at a Sorority hop there is always a big stag line.
– Some current events include : Big floods, gales and heavy rains; Bishop Manning refuses to debate Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver on improving the present marriage code; Dr. William Mayo (of the famous hospital) speaks on the study of psychic phenomena.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1927 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!