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I was creating the listings for a batch of The Sporting News, 1959-1961 today and came across this short but surprising article in the March 23, 1960 issue. I think the article is trying harder to stir up controversy than anything else, but the bottom line appears to be that the Mick was [...]
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On the last page of the March 9, 1968 issue of The New Yorker there are two columns of text titled simply with Arno’s name at the top. The article begins “Peter Arno died on February 22nd, at sixty-four, after a long illness.” Arno figures into the history of The New Yorker from its [...]
Continue reading about Random Notes #5 — 1968 New Yorker obit for Peter Arno
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I’ve been plugging away on Atlantic Monthly entries to the magawiki, doing 10 or 15 at a time in mornings and late at night, and I’ve already posted 67 of 145 (and counting) total entries, but I decided to take a slight detour on my way to finishing that title.
I had a package arrive [...]
Continue reading about Magawiki progress – Almost halfway through Atlantic Monthly, Century added
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Part 1 of 7 of the Luke Short western “Blood on the Moon” was published in the March 15, 1941 Saturday Evening Post. I bring up Short because the “Keeping Posted” section of this same issue contains some biographical notes from Short himself, but we’ll get to those in a minute. I came across [...]
Continue reading about Random Notes #4 — Western writer Luke Short
1926 Gallaher “Cinema Stars” Tobacco Cards issued by Gallaher Ltd. out of Belfast & London. 100 card set. Measures 1-1/2″ x 2-1/2″.
1948 Dinkie Grips card from Series 3 covering MGM films. Full cards with unpunctured “grips” area at bottom measure approximately 2-1/8″ X 4-1/4″. Issued out of Birmingham, England by Dinkie Products with ad on back for Dinkie Grips as well as other Dinkie Products (Dinkie Curlers and Wavesetters).
1939 Gallaher “My Favourite Part” Tobacco Cards issued out of London, measuring approximately 1-1/2″ X 2-1/2″.
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