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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:48:56 EST
From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Gift Idea

I was in a "vintage articles" store and stumbled onto an interesting
gift for my sister in Marin Co. Calif., two copies of LIFE magazine
from the year she was born.  They are fascinating reading, particularly
where they make odd echos of todays news.  Highlights follow:

LIFE "Listening to Folk Songs" October 20, 1947
  (15 cents, yearly subscription $5.50)

- Post's GRAPE NUTS ad: Win Groceries for a Year ($1,500)
- IOWA MISSION   Twenty-two tough-minded farmers visit Europe
                 to investigate problems, needs and night life
  (This title is opposite a full-page photo of a half dozen
   men at tables in a paris nightclub listening to a singer
   and watching her chorus of topless dancers.)
- Caption of a large photo reads: DEAD JEWISH BABY  Off the shores
  of Palestine last week the Jewish refugee ship _Madina Yehudit_
  ("Jewish State") tried to run the British blockage with 4,500
  illegal immigrants aboard.  Like so many of its predecessors
  the _Medina Yehudit_ was intercepted and challenged.  A Royal
  Navy party went aboard and again there was violence.  Tear-gas
  bombs were thrown.  Choking fumes permeated the ship, and one
  of the passengers, 6-month-old Haviva Stein, suffocated.  The
  body could have been buried at sea but it was not.  The passengers
  preserved it.  When the _Medina Yehudit_ docked at Haifa a few
  days later, the refugees crowded the deck to wave the little body
  in the faces of British Soldiery (above) and shout, "You killed her!"
- Sanka Coffee is _superb_ coffee.
- Caption of photo showing girl in braids in a chair in front of
  a log cabin with a guitar and what appear to be numerous liver
  spots on her feet (FOLK SINGERS): YOUNG AND OLD SING.  Lottie
  Mae McGaha, 13, of Three Mile Knob likes modern hillbilly songs.
  But Cordelia Moser, 72, remembers rare old boy-and-girl song
  _The Cambric Shirt_ (below), which she teaches (at left)
  to folk-song singer, Susan Reed.

  The Boy: Will you make me a cabric shirt?
           Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme...(four verses)
- Caption under full-page color photo showing three ladies in light
  shin-length dresses and white shoes with two men in Navy uniforms
  in a room with elaborate decor: ROYAL BRIDEGROOM   To make it official,
  Britain's king and queen pose in the White Drawing Room of Buckingham
  Palace with daughters Princess Margaret Rose (right), Princess Elizabeth
  and her fiance, Navy Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten.  The old
  sentimental wedding phrase, "We are not losing a daughter but gaining
  a son," is almost literally true in the case of the Windsors.
  Despite her marriage Elizabeth will keep her family name.  All of
  her children will be Windsors.  And from the time Philip Mountbatten
  becomes the king's and queen's son-on-law, he will devote his life
  to escorting his heiress-presumptive wife.
- Royal Family Tree:
                         Victoria / Albert
      Edward VII / Alexandra           Louis IV of Hesse / Alice
      George V / Mary                  Louis Alex. Mountbatten / Victoria
      George VI / Elizabeth            Andrew of Greece / Victoria Alice
                         Elizabeth / Philip
- New Eversharp "Super-Sphere" Pen
- White Rock Sparkling Water
     Look for Psyche, symbol of America's finest mixer.
     (Psyche is a winged sprite--nice figure--in a diaphanous slip)
- HOWARD HAWKS'S NEW FIND  Katherine Cassidy has a taut, angular model's
  figure.  The gaunt cheeks, underfed figure and blank expression of
  Katherine Cassidy proclaim that she is a professional clothes model.
  Miss Cassidy is singularly successful at her job and regularly earns
  top fees for parading in California fashion shows and draping her
  languid body across the pages of _Vogue_ and _Harpers's Bazaar_.
  But Miss Cassidy has a richer future in store for her.  She is the
  newest acting find of Howard Hawks, one of Hollywood's best directors
  (_The Dawn Patrol_, _The Big Sleep_) and successful off-hours
  star-maker.  At first sight Hawks was "struck by her beauty and
  bearing," which readers may see for themselves in picture at right,
  where Miss Cassidy wares with bravura the outfit she designed for
  herself.  Now receiving acting and speech lessons, Katherine, who
  is 20 and has changed her name from Icede to Cassidy because her
  mother is Irish, continues to model and leaves it to Hawks to
  decide just when she is ready.  Her first role is certain to be a
  choice one since Hawks does not believe in letting his discoveries
  (p. 104) wear themselves down by working their way up.

  (Captions on this page:)  Katherine Cassidy consults a pattern as
  she lies on the floor to cut the cloth for a new dress.  She
  designs and makes many of her own clothes.  Miss Cassidy drapes
  a bit of material over herself to get the effect.  Striking
  a typical model's pose, she prepares to cut a plaid greatcoat.
  This is Katherine Cassidy's toreador outfit.  She wears it to
  lounge in.  (Next page:)

  ALL HAWKS DISCOVERIES LOOK ALIKE   Howard Hawks, professional mentor
  of Katherine Cassidy, is a thin, white-haired Cornell man who has made
  a career out of directing everything from melodramas like _Scarface_
  to commedies like _Ball of Fire_.  As a sideline he has personally
  developed a handful of movie stars.  Most famous of these is Lauren
  Bacall, once a model like Miss Cassidy.  Ella Raines also got her first
  movie job from Hawks but now works for someone else.  Margaret
  O'Sheridan was hired to play the lead in Hawks's forthcomming
  _Chisholm Trail_ but became pregnant, so Hawks discovered another girl,
  Joanne Dru, and gave her the part.  All five ladies owing their
  careers chiefly to Hawks are superficially alike.  They are lank,
  dark-haired, high-strung types--a type for which Hawks seems to have
  an affinity.  His wife "Slim," voted America's best-dressed woman
  last year, looks much that way herself.  But they are now separated.

  (Captions under four portaits:)  Miss Dru is Mrs. Dick Haymes.  Miss
  Bacall married Mr. Bogart.  Miss Raines got another job.  Miss
  O'Sheridan had a baby.

- The American Girl Shoe  (Three styles shown: Dixie, Bonnie and Cosmo)
- Gillette Blue Blades  "Look Sharp!  Feel Sharp!  Be Sharp!"
- Eveready Hearing-Aid Batteries
- Milk-Bone Dog Biscuits
- Tampax
- Greyhound Lines
(And my personal favorite:)
- Perma-lift Brassieres  "The Lift That Never Lets You Down"
  (the ad makes it look like they are made from aluminum)

* Alt-Brad *