Life Magazine – May 6, 1920 (# 1957) – Answering the Aviator

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Cover : Woman waving to low flying bi-wing plane, having spelled out YES with dish towels on the grass, “It all comes out in the wash,” art by Eliot Keen.

– Full page ads for Rigaud Perfumes (Color, with lovely art of harem-style woman and peacock by A. Rahn), La Creole hair treatments (Color, with art by C. F. Church), Michelin Universal Cord Tires, Templar Motors Company (superfine small car), Waltham watches, Apperson cars (landscape format, nice pen-and-ink art of black convertible in front of the Taj Mahal, not signed), Ide Collars for men’s shirts (art probably by Leyendecker),  Edison-Dick Mimeograph (with art of archer), Packard Motor Car company (The Fuel-izer), Good Year Cord Tires (nice photo of tire making in the Cure Room of the factories at Akron), United States Rubber Company (TWO PAGES, new grainless rubber solid truck tire, with art), W.  and J. Sloane furniture, Columbia Motor car company (Car for the critical moment), Cole Motor car company (Color, with great art of the Cole Aero-eight Roadster), Orange-Crush soda (Color, beautiful!, with art by G. H. Mitchell), Coca-Cola (Color, excellent street scene art with big Coke logo on side of building), Columbia Grafonola (Color, with nice art of Japanese musicians, signature looks like Schnellock, with Japanese Period Design Grafonola).
– Full page art or cartoon art by C. F. Peters (Man selling a horse, If I ever meet a woman built like her, I’ll marry her, and no mistake!), Victor C. Anderson (The Newcomer, a timid new boy at school), Harold Tucker Webster (A tall man enjoying an evening at the theatre), Louis Raemaekers (There are revolutions and revolutions), F. T. Richards (April), Charles Forbell (In ye goode olde days : If Lucrezia Borgia had given five o’clock teas),
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, For the Championship, Little lady teacher boxing with big burly man “Ignorance.”
– Some current events include : Canada might accept a mandate to look after Armenia, San Remo, Peace Treaty, Former Senator Albert Beveridge, Red Cross Conference in Geneva.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1920 content – fun!