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1911 NY Times article says science has killed mystery and romance
An unsigned essay in the March 26, 1911 edition of the New York Times bemoans the fact that “mystery and romance have suffered greatly at the hands of modern science and invention,” and that the world...
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The day I thought I met Bill Gallo
When the legendary Daily News sports cartoonist Bill Gallo died last week at age 88, I thought that was an opportunity to show you the drawing he gave me when I visited the paper in the early ’70s....
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Optometrist says blonde drivers “much more dangerous” than brunettes
According to a May 1937 Associated Press article, blonde drivers are “much more dangerous” than brunettes, because: When the lights of an oncoming car hit a driver’s eyes he drives blind for a certain...
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1930s study proves “fat persons are fat because they eat too much”
According to this Associated Press article from the mid-’30s, it turns out that “fat persons are fat because they eat too much” and “gains in flesh always followed the taking of more energy than was...
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1950 Clorox ad drawn by … Jim Mooney?
The following ad appeared in the July 16, 1950 issue of The New York Times Sunday Magazine. My wife, whose discerning eyes I’d trust more than anyone’s when it comes to the styles of DC artists of the...
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I want to make a date with an Olds 88
I think I found my dream car in the July 15, 1950 New York Times Magazine. After all, as the ad says—it IS Hydra-Matic! But if I can’t have the car … I at least want that rocket.
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Would you eat duck if it was treated like veal?
An ad for Acme Supermarkets (where I guess Wile E. Coyote used to buy all his hunting gear) in the February 10, 1955 issue of the Washington, D.C. Evening Star hints that the ducks the company sells...
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The first microwave was unveiled in … 1931?
Everything I know about the timeline of the microwave—which isn’t much—I learned from Wikipedia. Date #1 to keep in mind: “The specific heating effect of a beam of high-power microwaves was discovered...
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1917 aviation infographic: “Incidentally, there may be a revival of smuggling”
Earlier this week, I looked through the July issues of various magazines I own from the mid-19th through the early 20th Century in search of something appropriate for a 4th of July post, and came up...
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Joy-Ball, anyone?
It’s “This Season’s New Game”—but what is it? While flipping through my 1914 bound volume of The Graphic—the same newspaper with those intricate aviation infographics and that ad with endorsements from...
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