• RADIO NUMBER (much humor pertaining to radio).
• Full page color ads for Stearns-Knight motor cars (with green and black car), Packard cars (also with green and black car), Atwater Kent radio speaker.
• Full page black and white ads Gorham silversmiths (with silversmith Thomas H. Yates), Metropolitan Life Insurance (with art by Gagney or Carney ?), Grebe radio (with neat comic strip by Lui Trugo).
• Cute half page artwork by John Held Jr., The speaker of the house, the family gathered around the gramophone.
• Full page art or cartoon art by L. J. Holton (Battle of the Centuries), C. H. Sykes (Welcome Home … to all the problems at home such as Flood control problem),
• The Montmartre of Hollywood, by Tom Mix.
• Two page centerspread art by R. V. Culter, Ring-side for the most important battle of the century, eager wounded soldiers gathering around the radio in the convalescent ward.
• Some current events include : Annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Sir Arthur Keith, Darwin, Wayne B. Wheeler the field marshal of the Drys has died.
• And much, much more (ads, artwork, commentary).

The post Life Magazine – September 22, 1927 (# 2342) – Radio Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– FRESHMAN NUMBER (much humor related to college).
– Full page color ads for Marmon automobiles (Color inspired by jewels, blue car inside a topaz gem), Ipswich Hosiery for men (What a sock!, with charming and funny art of two football players), Freshman Electric Radio (nice art of boy and dog).
– Full page black and white ads for Phoenix hosiery for men (plaid and striped socks).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Leonard T. Holton (View of campus if all the people who worked their way through college by selling magazines actually went to college), Robert Benchley (Two leaves from a Freshman’s notebook), C. H. Sykes (The month),
– Two page centerspread art by John Held Jr., Solitude, Couples seeking privacy crowd a courtyard.
– Some current events include : Competitive flights over the ocean; Current murders; Flying disasters; Roger Babson says stocks are going to slump (and, Boy, was he right – the Stock Market Crash of 1929 is just two years away), Henry Ford does not think there is an excess of motor cars, France wants to borrow one hundred million dollars to service a debt.
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – September 29, 1927 (# 2343) – College Freshmen appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– MOVIE NUMBER (much humor pertaining to movies).
– Full page color ads for Chandler-Cleveland Motors (New Royal Eight, nice art with blue car, person on white horse in courtyard of huge white house, Everybody admires a magnificent automobile), Willys-Knight Six (2 complete cars in one, the 70 Willys-Knight Cabriolet Coupe, blue-grey car on crème background), Camel Cigarettes (four people ready to go horse back riding, No half-way verdict – Camel is supreme).
– Full page black and white ads for Elco Standardized Cruisers (You’ll drop all cares as you lift the anchor, art by Ernest Walker), Mimeograph (art with owls), Eastman Kodak (Cine-Kodak movie camera), Spaulding Kro-Flite golf balls (with Tony Spinella, greens keeper).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Fred G. Cooper (Cathedral of the motion picture), Charles Dana Gibson (Our Boy, young man with Belgian girl and Lady Liberty), Leonard T. Holton (The censure : proving that one cannot be too careful of what one says to a child), C. H. Sykes (Lindbergh – Blah, they’ll soon forget him! He’s only a hero!), James Montgomery Flagg (The private life of Thomas Mix, he is a cowboy and it shows him shooting his pistol all day long),
– Two page centerspread art “Movie Opportunities of History (not signed).
– Some current events include : Charles Lindbergh is apparently a teetotaler, Calling Congress to vote money for flood relief, Life staff member James S. Metcalfe has died.
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – June 16, 1927 (# 2328) – Movie Stars appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for  Buick automobiles (huge long crème and black, open car), Packard automobiles (Reputation, with silver and forest green car), Atwater Kent radio (with oriental theme, Magic!).
– Fascinating Crimes, by Robert Benchley (not true crime reporting).
– Full page black and white ads for Marmon 8 cars (They’re half-a-mile back), Coty (Parfum la Jacee), Metropolitan Life Insurance (Two old men with canes), Sportsman Magazine, Gorham silversmiths (with Alexander MacBeth), Franklin Automobiles (with art, New Smoothness, new power, new speed), Frigidaire (funny ad featuring rubber celery), Lee Tires of Conshohocken (with art by Lyle Justis).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Ellison Hoover (A Chaplin revival), C. H. Sykes (Go ahead, it probably won’t hurt you much!, Censorship as an old lady set to wash The Stage and The Movies), James Montgomery Flagg (Laziest man on the west coast waiting for the six o’clock quake … so he doesn’t have to shake his own martini).
– Two page centerspread art by John Held Jr., done as a pair of one page artworks, at a Fraternity dance there are always too many girls, while at a Sorority hop there is always a big stag line.
– Some current events include : Big floods, gales and heavy rains; Bishop Manning refuses to debate Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver on improving the present marriage code; Dr. William Mayo (of the famous hospital) speaks on the study of psychic phenomena.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1927 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!

The post Life Magazine – March 10, 1927 (# 2314) – Laziest Man appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– Full page color ads for Advertising (some color, art by Don Herold), Packard cars (Enduring style, with art of the Taj Mahal), Marmon cars (Jewel colors, emerald, Series 75 Victoria).
– Full page black and white ads for Metropolitan Life Insurance.
– Cute half page art by Bruce Bairnsfather (Everyday deeds that pass unsung : the man who tests new zeppelins for leaks … blowing one up manually!).
– Full page art or cartoon art by Johnny Gruelle (Yahoo Center : Doc Beazly’s auto throws a wheel), C. H. Sykes (And just when I was beginning to make some noise!  Coolidge withdraws), Ellison Hoover (Little known industries : fattening doormen on a doorman farm in New Jersey),
– Half page photo of boys saluting the American flag at Life’s Fresh Air Camp.
– One third page artwork by jack Farr = William Gordon Farr (a favorite artist of 2Neat : Things we read about but never see : the police throwing their dragnet over the city to bag a criminal).
– And, another cute Farr artwork, half page, (The back-seat drivers’ club holds it annual outing).  
– Two page centerspread art by Anton Otto Fischer, Saved!, Men on the deck of a sailing ship looking at some shipwrecked sailors they have just rescued.
– Some current events include : Murder trial of Scco and Vanzetti in Massachusetts, Mr. Coolidge has withdrawn from the presidential race, General Wood was injured in an accident in Cuba.
– And much, much more.

The post Life Magazine – August 25, 1927 (# 2338) – Beach scene, Rescue of Shipwrecked Sailors appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – November 3, 1927 (# 2348) appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– FOOTBALL NUMBER.
– Full page art or cartoon art by John Held Jr. (Timken Bearings), Albert Frueh (The Trap drummer goes back to the farm), C. H. Sykes (Wanted : strong man to drive band wagon), Unknown (The Prodigal Parent).
– Two page centerspread art by John Held Jr. (He told her he’d be wearing a coonskin coat).
– Some current events include : Mayor Thompson of Chicago, William Hale Thompson, Taking pro-English histories out of the Public Library of Chicago and burning them, Elmer Davis with Harper’s Magazine, Mr. McAdoo of the democratic party is a belligerent Dry.
– Very neat full page color Ipswich Hosiery ad with odd art of fat golfer.
– Full page color Lucky Strike cigarettes with art of Mary Garden, Margery Bailey, Edwagner at Forest Hills.
– And so much more!  1927 Life humor magazines are great FUN – get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw!

The post Life Magazine – November 10, 1927 (# 2349) – Football appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

– $2500 contest, “How well do YOU know America#8221;
– Full page color Corona typewriter ad, beautiful, in six colors.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Albert Frueh (The fireman who went back to the farm), C. H. Sykes (Thanksgiving proclamation in Chicago).
– Two page centerspread art by Anton Otto Fischer (Shanghaied)
– Some current events include : Bituminous Brother Straton of Baptist Church on West 57th ST., Christian Scientists, cost of illness in the United States is running about one-third the cost of running the Government, Proposed plan of the New York Hospital and Cornell Medical College, State Charities Aid Association, New State Psychiatric Hospital, Hospital building, Greedy doctors, Cost of Education is very dear.
– Full page color Johnston & Murphy men’s shoes ad with art, signed but unreadable.
– Full page color BBB Own Make Pipe ad with art by Harry Morse Meyers.
– Two page color Society of American Florists ad, Say Thanks with Flowers.
– Full page color Atwater Kent Radio ad with football and fans art.
– Much more.

The post Life Magazine – November 17, 1927 (# 2350) appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – November 24, 1927 (# 2351) – Tropical Number appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.

The post Life Magazine – December 1, 1927 (# 2352) – Christmas appeared first on 2Neat Magazines.