Life Magazine – November 6, 1931 (# 2557) – Curmudgeonly Neighbor

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Cover : Humor in the form of a group of young boys dressed as pirates and Indians running from an old lady with a little stick, art by C. W. Anderson.  (2Neat’s husband says she is just like that curmudgeon).

– Full page color ads for Sheaffer’s pens and pencils, Cadillac (La Salle 7-passenger sedan in burgundy and black with art of couple in evening wear), Camel cigarettes (with photo of football player and two lady fans).
– Full page black and white ads for Spud menthol-cooled cigarettes (with odd art of wife watching her husband shave while he smokes, “Your Good morning cigarette”), Unemployment relief (Forward!), Listerine.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Edwina (Sinbad : what’s the matter now! … boy praises his dog for tripping a member of the opposing football team, then scolds him when the dog trips he himself, poor dog is confused.), unsigned (Pair of art panels showing doctor successfully treating sick child and (next panel) parents discovering they can pay every bill but the doctor’s), Will B. Johnstone (I see by the papers), Howard K. Elcock (Back stage).
– Fulfill your destiny! Be a man! Or a woman! Or what have you? Yogi Cluett.
– A sample of Life’s sarcastic humor : “An escaped monkey in Norwood, NJ, made himself a nuisance by going around nights blowing the horns of parked cars.  Suspicion that it was a monkey was aroused by the fact that the boys were away at college.”
– Is it more fun to be a moron?  An argument against intelligence.
– And much more 1931   2Neat antique Life magazine content – cool!