Life Magazine – May 7, 1925 (# 2218) – Fresh Air Number

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Cover : Skippy looking out over pastoral countryside, “Gee, it’s so beeyootiful I’d like to give somebody a sock in the jaw,” art by Percy L. Crosby

– FRESH AIR NUMBER (Also name of Life’s charity farm for poor city kids).
– Full page COLOR ads for Advertising (art by Don Herold), Fisk tires (man who has fallen off horse, art by Toney, probably Lawrence Toney), Lincoln Motor company.
– Full page ads for Marmon automobiles, Packard cars, Gorham silversmiths (with photo of James Harriott), Fisher car bodies (art by McClelland Barclay).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Harrison Cady (The nature lovers … picnickers trashing a lovely picnic spot), Gluyas Williams (Mother’s day … rush hour traffic stopping so mama cat and kittens can cross the road), Percy L. Crosby (Skippy once watched a boy scout sew), C. H. Sykes (Poor Pygmalion : the story of a too-realistic masterpiece).
– Two page centerspread art by Victor C. Anderson, “Holding up the game,” mother repairing catcher’s mitt while whole team waits.
– Some current events include : Getting fresh air into children, Sir William Osler, Sudden death of Sargent, Dean Inge.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1925 content – fun!