Life Magazine – May, 1936 (# 2614) – Flying and airsickness

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Cover : Five ladies and a stewardess are happy and active after lunch on an airplane, while the single man is sitting in front of his untouched lunch tray and is green in the face (air sick), art by Ned Hilton

– Full page color ads for Good Year tires (Please daddy .. what about me?  Strange ad with baby’s head through the center of a small tire), Mount Vernon Whiskey, General Dual 10 tires, Ethyl gasoline (I knew you’d ask for Ethyl when I saw your car was new), Turret Top car body by Fisher (with photo of two little kids looking at a turtle), Camel cigarettes..
– Full page ads for Ipana Tooth Paste (Grade School girl and class brushing their teeth), Listerine, Crab Orchard Whiskey, Life’s Summer Camps.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Gregor Duncan (A mad tea party, words are printed backwords, as in “Through the looking glass,” Alice in wonderland, shows political waste of money for CCC, WPA, TVA and such … matched with poem by Arthur L. Lippmann), Geo. T. Eggleston (Lady with tiny fire hoping to be rescued by a fireman).
– Architectural Hideosity No. 7, Dante’s Inferno on U.S. 167, five miles south of Little Rock, Arkansas (looks kind of NEAT to me!).
– “There is no doubt that the floods resulting from this year’s spring thaw were the worst in the history of radio broadcasting.”
– Quote from Mayor LaCuardia, “You can’t have proper discipline if you accept cigars from your men.”
– Cute quarter page art by George Shellhase, an agent directing a group of lovely ladies in swim suits, “You girls report at Miami Beach at two o’clock.  They want to take some newsreel shots of an alligator farm.”
– And much more 1936   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!