Life Magazine – November 17, 1927 (# 2350)

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Cover : Very cute woman writing note as she stands with one foot on the running board of a packing car, ready to go, art by John Held Jr.

– $2500 contest, “How well do YOU know America?”
– Full page color Corona typewriter ad, beautiful, in six colors.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Albert Frueh (The fireman who went back to the farm), C. H. Sykes (Thanksgiving proclamation in Chicago).
– Two page centerspread art by Anton Otto Fischer (Shanghaied)
– Some current events include : Bituminous Brother Straton of Baptist Church on West 57th ST., Christian Scientists, cost of illness in the United States is running about one-third the cost of running the Government, Proposed plan of the New York Hospital and Cornell Medical College, State Charities Aid Association, New State Psychiatric Hospital, Hospital building, Greedy doctors, Cost of Education is very dear.
– Full page color Johnston & Murphy men’s shoes ad with art, signed but unreadable.
– Full page color BBB Own Make Pipe ad with art by Harry Morse Meyers.
– Two page color Society of American Florists ad, Say Thanks with Flowers.
– Full page color Atwater Kent Radio ad with football and fans art.
– Much more.