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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Whalley, Peter (cover art); Stearns, Howard B.; Fraser, Blair; Zarov, Basil; Curtin, Walter; Sebert, John; Crowther, Bosley; Turofsky; Newman, Arnold; Simpkins (illustrator). First Edition. 72 pages. Features: Canadians are the worst loudmouths; Nice colour ad for Matinee cigarettes; Fantastic colour ad for the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere 4-door Hardtop (black on red); Blair Fraser Reports from Moscow - article with photos; Nostalgic full-page colour ad for the General Electric Stratoliner Range (teal in colour); She sells glamour with a growl - Lillian Farrar; What happened when we threw out our TV set - The Kimber Family - Vivien, Carol, Ruth, Ann, June, Earl, and David gave up TV for a month - family photo with article; Is smog the real culprit in lung cancer?; The wonderland of Louis B. Mayer - this Canadian started as a junk dealer and wound up bossing M-G-M, Hollywood's biggest, richest, gaudiest studio - here's the never-before-told story of his incredible career and the tinsel world he ruled - article with many wonderful photos; "Lionel Could Do Anything" - Part 3 of The Story of the Conachers keys on Lionel Conacher - Canada's athlete of the half-century - article with manyy great photos of Conacher engaged in numerous sports; We can't fight without a merchant navy; Uncommon photo ad for Maxwell Limited of St. Mary's, Ontario - yard equipment, white goods, etc.; Awesome colour photo centrefold ad for Caterpillar features a Cat D9 ata work with other pieces working in the background; Very attractive colour ad for Oldsmobile shows at teal coupe on a ski hill; Marconi TV ad; Beautiiful colour 1957 DeSoto ad inside back cover; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Minor moisture signs to lower edge of back pages. A sound vintage copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Photo album. Oblong quarto. Approximately 14" x 10". Full cloth boards with a copper plate replica of the Selimiye Mosque (Edirne, Turkey) in relief on the front cover. Very good. Contains 86 black and white photographs neatly held in place on thick paper leaves with corner mounts, interleaved with embossed tissue guards. Laid-in at the rear are five 12" x 8" pencil sketches, three travel documents, and two additional photographs. The album was put together in 1961 by Charles Simpkins of the 848th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron. It is divided into one section with 36 photographs (measuring 4.5" x 3.5") of the Wheelus U.S. Air Force Base in Libya (now Tripoli's Mitiga International Airport), and a second section with 50 photographs (measuring 5" x 3.5") of various street scenes taken in Istanbul, Turkey. Laid-in is Simpkins's Signed travel voucher from 1961. The Libyan set of 36 prints are identified with manuscript captions written in white ink on the paper sheet directly underneath each print. This historic base, known as the "Hell Hole" for its scorching heat, was built by the Italians in 1923 and was used by the Germans during the North African Campaign. Captured by the British in 1943, it was taken over by the Americans in 1945 and became home to 4,500 Americans at the height of the Cold War. The photographs document the base when it was being used for a covert airlift campaign during the Congo Crisis of the early 1960s. They include shots of USAF 124s and other planes on the flight line during the Airlift, and various street scenes taken throughout the base: Arab laborers, the Mirage restaurant, the NCO club, a Jewish Chapel, and much more. Also included are shots of Americans and Libyans at leisure on the beach. The second set of 50 prints is a fascinating series of informal street scenes taken in Istanbul while Simpkins was most likely on vacation in September 1961. As none are identified, one can easily get lost among these shots of Turkish vendors, peddlers, musicians, and horse drawn carts, as they make their way through street markets and carnivals, with the occasional view of a mosque's minarets in the background. Various candid portraits include children at play, boys playing foosball, and all manner of outdoor vendors selling their wares. The five laid in pencil sketches are reasonably accomplished drawings of a B-718 USAF jet in flight, a Brayer tank truck, a Mercedes 300 SL, an old Roadster, and a World War I British fighter plane.