White also recalled the much-publicized 1925 wedding of Abby Rockefeller to David Milton, the throngs of women who took to smoking in public in the 1920s and the drinkers who took their activities behind closed doors; and one of the early magazine’s beloved contributors, Ralph Barton, who ...
…The Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company launched KOOL cigarettes in 1933 as the sole competitor to the other menthol brand, Spud, which was a big advertiser in the early New Yorker. Maybe it was the coupons, or the modern brand name, that helped KOOL knock Spud from the market by the ...
Harrison Holt graduated from Phillips Andover and Harvard. Upon his Harvard graduation in 1898 he enlisted with Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. After the war and some business ventures in Mexico he joined theNew York Globe and Commercial Advertiseras a reporter. Later in life he wrote novels and dete...
Advertiser Disclosure On This Page New Hampshire Car Insurance Coverage and Rates Best New Hampshire Car Insurance Companies State Laws Driving in New Hampshire Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils. These were the words of General John Stark, the most famous soldier from ...
An account states, “At the Blue Hill Observatory in Milton, just south of Boston, winds reached 121 mph, with gusts nearing 200 mph, still the second highest winds ever recorded in the Bay State. Boston and the northern tier of Massachusetts were spared the worst of the storm.” [5] ...
We like the three-family farm atProspect Hill Orchards. Located in Milton, New York in the Catskills, Prospect Hill consists of the parents’ original Homestead Farm, their daughter’s Hilltop Farm and their son’s Clarke’s Family Farm. Each is scenic, friendly and reasonably priced since th...
…the folks at General Tire & Rubber were the latest advertiser to tie their product to the glamour of aviation… …and on to our cartoons, we begin with another installment of native birds via Rea Irvin… …Al Frueh chimed in with this three-panel encounter at a nudist colony… …Rober...
In contrast to Bert Lahr’s new toned-down style,Milton Berle’soutlandish antics over at the Imperial Theatre had Gibbs wondering what the comedian’s vaudeville-style showSalutawas all about, if it was about anything. Whatever it was, it worked—Berle would enjoy a comedy career spanning ei...
The magazine was a frequent advertiser in the upstart New Yorker, no doubt perceiving a considerable overlap among its readers. This full page ad in the Sept. 28 issue of the New Yorker featured a column by the Bazar’s Paris fashion correspondent, Marjorie Howard… …no doubt The New ...
White also recalled the much-publicized 1925 wedding of Abby Rockefeller to David Milton, the throngs of women who took to smoking in public in the 1920s and the drinkers who took their activities behind closed doors; and one of the early magazine’s beloved contributors, Ralph Barton, who ...