Verlag: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, USA, 1952
Magazin / Zeitschrift Erstausgabe
Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Illustrated by Dimitri, Peter (illustrator). First Edition. Features: I Eat Like a Bird; A New Bible for the 20th Century - After 15 years of labor, scholars have given the English-speaking world a more accurate King James Bible; Sea Power's Sunday Punch - Tomorrow's Atom-Powered Aircraft Carriers - article illustrated by Fred Freeman; Progress Report on the War Against Cancer - A new attack on the killer by researchers at Sloan-Kettering; Football Funnies; "Call Me Mamie" - Article on Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower with color photos; How to Fly a Saucer - colour photos from movie sets; Looks Easy on Sunday - Belle Benchley is the world's only woman director of a major zoo (in San Diego); America Stops for the Coffee Hour; Mountainless Mountaineers - Hardy Iowans practice climbing without mountains; What's Justice in a Damage Suit? - fighting the damage suit racket by taking movies; Bigmouth Number Thirteen (fiction); Hot Pepper (fiction); The Way You Remember (fiction); A Tough Game to Beat (fiction); The Draw at Arroyo Blanco (fiction); and more. Many wonderful color ads. Nice back cover color ad for Camel cigarettes features photo of Metropolitan Opera star Dorothy Kirsten. Complete and unmarked with average wear. 74 pages. A sound vintage copy.; Cover Illustration; Folio.
Verlag: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, USA, 1946
Magazin / Zeitschrift Erstausgabe
Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Illustrated by Cordrey, Earl; Auerbach-Levy; Michael; Monet, Dorothy;Meyers, Morse; Bischoff, H.E.; Guise, Vincent; Cooper, Mario; (illustrator). First Edition. 82 pages. Articles: The Battle of the Bench - conflict in the U.S. Supreme Court; Guam, Sweet Guam - servicemen's wives love it; The Superhorses are Ours - How the U.S. Army acquired Germany's finest equine bloodstock - article with color photos; Hard-Luck Kid - Jack Kramer should be tops in US Amateur tennis for 1946; Rio Grande - River of Death - Murder and robbery often are the fate of Mexicans who cross her; Traveling Light - Vera Maxwell suggests compact wardrobes for all climates; China Doll - Rose Martin and her foster mother Mary Lo-Sam -Moi; Photo and write-up of test pilot Jack Woolams of Bell Aircraft who is aiming for 1,000 mph! Fiction: The Warning Bell; Bachelor Apartment; The Watchers; The Dory; Sleep, My Love; Alone. Ads include: Studebaker; U.S. Army; Vaseline Hair Tonic; Nash cars; Bell Telephone; GE Light Bulbs - featuring photo of Fred Allen; Trailways bus lines; Ford cars (with mountie in illustration); Oldsmobile cars; Texaco; Waterman's ink; Car Nu with Fibber McGee and Molly color cartoon; Pepsi cartoon ad; Caterpillar color photo ad showing new subdivision construction with dozers and scraper; Kaiser and Frazer cars; Pennzoil; Lee tires; Canada Dry; Blatz beer; Camel cigarettes ad on back cover features photo of smoking doctor. Above-average external wear. 2"x2" piece missing from bottom corner of front cover. A worthy vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's Magazine, August 17, 1946 Illegal Immigration Webacks Mexico Border Patrol The Battle of the Bench - conflict in the U.S. Supreme Court; Guam, Sweet Guam - servicemen's wives love it; The Superhorses are Ours - How the U.S. Army acquired Germany.