…and from the people who brought us the tagline “blow some my way” in 1928 (as a way to encourage women to take up the habit), by 1934 she is owning that cigarette, and apparently setting some ground rules with the gentleman… …contrast with the more submissive pose in the Chester...
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In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but a...
White lamented what appeared to be the transformation of the familiar night club; high above Manhattan in the Rockefeller Center’s Rainbow Room, the comforting haze of “cigarette smoke, talc, waiter’s venom” had been displaced by air conditioning, and to add to the horror, an organ had...
“It is all so discouraging; so very, very, sad. Six million people in New York, and apparently no one in the white-collar class who can lose himself for a moment in the ecstasy of a roller-coaster. Six million people in New York, and every one of them a curious little study in ...
HEADS UP…Elsie Hennemandives into the water near the Hudson River Yacht Club, circa 1930. Located at the foot of West 74th Street, the club moved onto a barge at 145th Street to escape Moses’s park expansion plans, but it was eventually banished from the West Side. (Reddit) ...
…Brown & Williamson’s first national brand,Raleigh, was launched as a premium cigarette in 1928, here marketed with a plain or cork tip (“to please her and save her lips”)… …in his parody of Camel ads,George Cecil Cowingwrote that he preferred Chesterfields, a big-time brand of ...
his work was seen in many ads and in magazines during the first half of the 20th century, including twenty-twoSaturday Evening Postcovers…LaGatta’s style was known for its cool elegance, but I have to say this image is a bit disturbing, given that the banjo player’s cigarette is ...
The first installment of the profile was accompanied by aCyrus Baldridgeportrait of the president (left), but the final two installments featured a less-than-flatteringAbe Birnbaumrendering that first appeared inTheNew Yorkerin the March 2, 1929 issue: ...
…the makers of Old Gold, however, were pioneers in associating cigarette smoking with sporting activities and tales of derring-do…here the rapid spread of the Old Gold brand across the country is equated to the record-breaking feats of a young female pilot,Elinor Smith… ...