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Life Magazine
January 9, 1970 : Cover - Special Double Issue
: Into the ‘70s; The Worlds Within Our Bodies,
photo of a living human egg magnified 52 times. The
Problem of People Pollution : US a nation of 200 million
people, mostly humorous pictures of crowding. The Search
for Faith : new religions attract Americans on adventures
of the spirit, including Nichiren Shoshu, Monks of the
New Skete, I Ching, White witchcraft, Yoga (Truchas,
New Mexico, Tom Law, Lisa Law, Tom Watson), Yippies
and Martin Carey, General Theological Seminary with
Paul Rose, Bill Robinson, Andrew Foster and Linda Foster.
Neat two page color Schlitz beer ad with nice speedy
sailboat scene. The Worlds within Us - extraordinary
microphotographs of the human body by Lennart Nilsson.
Trial Trends : some uncommon statistics for the ‘70s.
Star of "Hello Dolly!", Barbra Streisand. Shapes of
Coalition and Dissent - a new LIFE Harris Poll makes
predictions about the near future. Half page Anacin
pain relief ad with Mrs. Richard Polansky. Whose Wilderness?
- White Cloud Mountains. Fashions for the ‘70s
- Rudi Gernreich makes some modest proposals. Centerfold
color Goodyear Tire ad with various cars that have used
their tires. Neat two page ad with young mountaineers
in Wyoming with Paul Petzoldt - for a Life-sponsored
documentary movie.
G - $20 
Life Magazine
January 23, 1970 : Cover - Johnny
Carson, the lonesome hero of middle America (feature
inside). Full page color Newport cigarettes ad with
rugged sailor guy. Gorgeous two page color photo taken
by Fletcher Manley on the slopes of Grindelwald in winter,
Wetterhorn peak in the back. A number of letters to
the editor pertaining to the Charles Manson coverage,
including "How dare You" put him on the cover,
LIFE December 19, 1969. Columnist Barry Farrell reports
his third burglary in three weeks in Manhattan. Full
page Maytag ad with Mr. and Mrs. Larry Volz living in
Clear, Alaska, with family and lots of sled dogs. Photographer
Philippe Halsman shoots his hundredth cover for LIFE.
Tragic conflict in Biafra comes to an end, Biafra lost
its try for nationhood and surrendered to Nigeria, Africa,
2 million died, photos include Surgeon Louis Salvador,
French Red Cross team, Rene Mader, Ann Seymour, photos
of starving refugees, soldiers. Apollo's rock samples
under microscope, moon rocks. Yablonski murders - coal
mine workers and union strife, United Mine Workers,
black lung disease. Soviet medicine - world's most socialized
health system - lots and lots of great photos of often
unusual medical treatment. Graphics art boom, includes
art by Roy Lichtenstein, Yoshiharu Higa, Nicholas Krushenick,
Edward Ruscha, Kenneth Price, Ellsworth Kelly, Jasper
Johns. Full page color Viceroy cigarettes ad with seedy
looking DJ scene. Nice full page color Volkswagen ad
with crowded street scene in Honduras.
VG - $30
G - $20
Life Magazine
January 30, 1970 : Cover - A Japanese Snow Monkey
soaking in a natural hot spring with snow on his head.
Ecology Becomes Everybody's Issue, includes air pollution,
greenhouse gases, noise pollution, plague, DDT, and
a piece on Snow Monkeys of Japan. Nice two page silhouette
photo of the Brooklyn Bridge. Lots and lots of varied
letters to the editor pertaining to the December 26,
1969 issue about the 1960's. Scramble for life in Biafra,
starvation in Eastern Nigeria. The "Super Fight" - Boxers
Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) vs. Rocky Marciano. Soul
songwriter Laura Nyro. Living with a home computer -
this is an excellent piece about the handy uses of a
home computer, Theodore Rodman family of Ardmore, Pennsylvania
- Teletype terminal rented for $110 per month, plus
$7.50 per hour of telephone line usage. Poet W. H. Auden.
How TV violence affects children, includes Chris Cline.
The continental jigsaw puzzle : old theory that the
earth's great land masses once fitted together is now
proved, plate tectonics, continental drift. Theodore
H. White's guest column - direct elections are an invitation
to national chaos. A neat article on Richard Nixon with
photos of many of the varied things he sis as a younger
man, including football and golf.
G - $15
F (Generally VG, but has discoloration in a margin)
- $5
F (All G, nice, but has mild notes on cover edge)
- $5
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Magazine February 6, 1970 :
Cover - Robert Redford (feature inside), includes skiing
and snowmobiling photos. New star is a real Sundance
kid. Another full page color Weldwood paneling ad, funny
to see these ads because this is the same stuff home
renovators tear off the walls in horror now. A number
of lengthy letters to the editor pertaining to the piece
about the White Mountains, LIFE January 9, 1970. Gordon
Parks on the Black Panthers, a symbol of militant black
rage, includes Eldridge Cleaver in Algiers, New York,
named photos of Black Panthers and policemen killed
in conflicts. New Kind of catamaran designed by Hobie
Alter, the Hobie Cat - designed with surfers in mind.
Elmyr de Hory, master faker - he paints counterfeit
"masters." Cool green two page Chevrolet Impala
ad. Israel's inevitable war, includes photos of women
soldiers in the Israeli youth corps wearing skirts above
the knee and stopping Arab men for inspection on the
street. Harold Krents goes to Broadway, a blind law
student and the show "Butterflies are Free"
suggested by his life. Three stylish jockeys : Eddie
Belmonte, Angel Cordero and Jorge Veasquez. Odd photo
of Senator Strom Thurmond surrounded by marshmallows
which were thrown at him.
G - $24
F (All G, but cover
loose from staples) - $10
F (Inside is G, cover is fair - creased, address
label scar, loosening on staples) - $10
Life Magazine
February 13, 1970 : Cover - Close up of one dollar
bill. Your Dollar Problem : How some Americans beat
inflation, includes Mrs. Ramon Spritzler doing her own
remodeling, Else Moyer cutting her husband's hair, raising
your own beef, learning plumbing, learning to sew (Evelyn
Paige), raising vegetables (Anneliese Turner), tuning
her own car (Susie Mumford), more. TV Some interesting
superimposed photos by Bill Binzen. Full page US Ski
Team ad. Full page Ayds weight loss ad with Christine
Stanley, apparently doctors thought being really fat
could hurt on unborn baby in those days - "Luckily
my baby was born all right and not hurt from all my
fat." Review - "The Dick Cavett Show". Barry Farrell
bids farewell to Diana Ross and the Supremes. Author,
philosopher, mathematician, and intellectual gadfly
Lord Bertrand Russell dies at 97. The Boston Museum
of Fine Arts celebrates 100th birthday by acquiring
a Raphael. US Attorney General John Mitchell, with an
interview with Martha Mitchell (includes golf photo
of him and President Nixon). Full page Maytag ad with
Mary Cygan of Mundelein, Illinois, and her family. Starlet
Jacqueline Bisset. Parting Shots - New York's Sing Sing
and San Francisco Bay's Alcatraz prisons have been shut
down, Native American Indians are currently holding
Alcatraz. Cute full page color Volkswagen van ad with
the same amount of stuff packed into a regular station
wagon.
VG - $21
G - $13
Life Magazine
February 20, 1970 : Cover - photo of Nathaniel
Litt, an architect who ran away to join the circus as
a clown, feature article includes Bill Ballantine, Lou
Jacobs, Richard Hoefle, John Peers, Vernice Klier, Jane
Shirley, Don Ballard, Leslie Walton, Jan Skullerud,
Murry Horowitz, Marcos Barragon. Humorous Bekins moving
firm ad with the meaning of FEAR. Teenagers on Heroin.
Two page color Chef Boy-ar-dee pizza ad "If your
kid isn't football material, send him to college on
a frozen pizza scholarship." Full page Mutual of
New York Life Insurance MONY ad with art by Willard
Mullin. Robert Ardrey : the Case for Population Control
(a chapter from his upcoming book, "The Social Contract")
- "Man has lost birth control instincts."
An exclusive interview with French President Georges
Pompidou. Clown school. Lady Antonia Fraser, author
of scholarly best-seller "Mary Queen of Scots". Movie
Review - Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H". Cute full page American
Gas Association ad with grubby boys baseball team in
a tub. Unlocked wedlock, photos of unmarried couple
with children include Rolling Stone Keith Richard and
Anita Pallenberg, Vanessa Regrave and Franco Nero, others.
VG - $26
G - $16
F (All G, nice
cover, but spine is mildly water marked) - $5
Life Magazine February
27, 1970 : Fold-out Cover - a portion of the
mural "The spirit of Cinema America" painted
by James H. Daugherty. Goodbye to the Glory Days - Hollywood
puts its past up for sale. Three page fold-out Chevrolet
ad with the new Camero in blue and red. Abortion becomes
an issue for national debate. Where the birth control
pill stands today. Full page color Beautyrest mattress
ad with four different naked lady backs and lovely hairdos.
Lovely and rather haunting black and white photos by
Eriberto Guidi and Umbria and Marches. Full page Leo
Payne Pontiac, Jeep, GMC, Subaru auto sales ad, says
he is at 300 Wadsworth Boulevard, possibly Denver, Colorado
(this ad only available in some issues). Hockey player
Bruins defenseman Bobby Orr. Ad-lib fashions at La Coupole.
Half page color Raleigh cigarettes ad with skiing theme.
South Carolina Congressman Mendel Rivers. Drip art -
a new school of sculptures, includes Jackson Pollock,
Lynda Benglis, Richard Van Buren Richard Serra, Eva
Hesse. Parting Shots - conservationists fly to the defense
of the great cats, people against the use of fur and
other natural products in fashion..
VG - $26
G - $16
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Life Magazine March
6, 1970 : Fold-out Cover - Billy Kidd. On the
Icy Edge of Win or Lose : an old hand (Billy Kidd at
26) and a green kid (Tyler Palmer at 19) endure the
test of ski racing, photo of America's
first Gold Medal Winner, skier Billy Kidd. Oil
spill spreads over Tampa Bay, tanker Delian Apollon
in St. Petersburg, Florida - article deals with ways
to clean up spills and problems caused by spills. Interesting
article about the new resort "The Big Surf"
in Tempe, Arizona - artificial beach with waves for
surfers, includes Fred Hemmings, Jr. Full page color
Kent cigarettes ad with ski theme. The male contraceptive
pill - a vasectomy alternative. Gore Vidal's novel "Myra
Breckinridge" makes a chaotic transition to film. New
wave of aquatic gear, bathysphere, underwater bunkhouse,
Taylor "Tap" Pryor, the Aegir, Hawaii's Oceanic
Foundation, Kumu. Horrible photo of 14 year-old Keith
Sapsford falling from the wheel housing of a Japan Airlines
jet. Another horrible photo of a Porsche tearing into
the crowd at a stock car race and flinging two spectators
high into the air.
G - $20
Life Magazine March
13, 1970 : Cover - Very nice photo of two different
lengths of skirts - The Great Hemline Hassle, includes
two page photo of some really nice legs surrounded by
different skirt lengths and opinions. Nice editor's
note about author Edward Abbey. The curious "photos"
of Jan Weborg, in color. Full page comment piece by
Stephen Mahoney, about skiing, ski lessons and Jay Peak
in Vermont. School integration bogs down, includes anti-busing
advocate James Miller in Denver, Barrett Elementary
School in Denver, Colorado, leapwood Avenue Elementary
School, Los Angeles. Full page Maytag ad with Mrs. Robert
C. Dunthorn of Middletown, Rhode Island and her family.
Nepal's Crown Prince Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva married
Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Rani. Lakers coach Jerry
West; injured center Wilt Chamberlain may return for
the basketball playoffs. Threatened America - environmentalist-writer
Edward Abbey writes in praise of mountain lions. University
of Dayton study shows clothes don't make the man, funny
piece about hitch-hiking success with different hair
and garb. Minnesota country home shaped of burlap, then
coated with plastic. Centerfold color Ford ad with Ford
Maverick and Maverick Grabber, very nice.
G - $20
Life Magazine March
20, 1970 : Cover - photo of Diane Knapp formerly
Sister Ann Rafael. Photo gallery from rural Ireland.
Comment piece on TV deal for baseball. The Pope's Unruly
Flock : a spirit of change shakes the Church. Music
Review - Elvis in Las Vegas. Scientist Charles Wyckoff,
using special extended-range film, captures the corona
of the March 7 eclipse. The kindest uncut of all : men
who hide their long hair under wigs to look respectable
for jobs. New York City detective David Durk tries to
recruit Northeast Ivy League colleges, includes Gary
Abrecht, Mary Ellen Abrecht. Group tours for overseas
travel to Russia. A father writes about his son's heroin
addiction. Sculpture - Constantin Brancusi's reaches
back to prehistoric and African works for inspiration.
Many photos of women in bikini swimming suits, Miss
Whitmarsh Beauty Quest - Christine Hansom.
G - $13
F (All G, nice, but cover is loosening on staples)
- $5
Life Magazine March
27, 1970 : Cover - The US Takes Off on Credit
Cards (feature inside). Full page color Huffy riding
lawn mower ad. The Bomb Radicals - a political fringe
turns to terrorism, includes Greenwich village blast
from which Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin
escaped, then vanished. An interview with a real bomber,
no name or photo. Includes information on buying dynamite,
bomb squads, photo of Detective Jack Baldwin of Commerce
City, Colorado. A Ceremony for Citizens - Mr. and Mrs.
Zweifler of Liberty, New York become Americans. Actor-Director
Jack Nicholson's new movie, "Drive, He Said". Japan's
Expo '70 opens Asia's first world's fair, includes very
interesting tower of logs built by British Columbia.
Also an article about how Japan economy grew so rich
so quickly. New York artists fight to stay in their
lofts, Bill and Yvonne Tarr, Tom and Linda Blackwell,
Bob Wiegand, Jack and Sandra Beal, Nobu Fukui, . Full
page ad for the Famous Writers School with Rod Serling.
Book Review - poet James Dickey's first novel, "Deliverance".
John Kenneth Galbraith welcomes new disciple Nixon to
the environmental struggle. Nine better (than Carswells)
candidates for the Supreme court. Centerfold color Volkswagen
ad with models from 1949 to 1970 - they are all the
same, or very nearly the same. Full page ad for America's
Railroads featuring the twin towers of New York's World
Trade Center then under construction.
VG - $21
G - $13
F (All G, nice, but is missing a piece of an
ad page) - $5
Life Magazine April
3, 1970 : Cover - Bacall Hits Broadway with Song
and Dance. Two page color American Motors ad for the
infamous Gremlin car, white with red racing stripe,
and Uncle Sam. Humorous photo of scuba diver jumping
in water to swim to rescue sub, San Diego Bay. A number
of letters to the editor on Mountain Lions, School Integration
and Hemlines, all LIFE March 13, 1970. Laos and Cambodia
- New troubles for the US. Underpaid mailmen stage their
first strike and troops man the sorting boxes in New
York's post offices, includes great full page color
photo of Peter Morsellino of Glendale, New York, photo
of Victor Irizarry and his family, photo and story of
Felix von Moschzisker and his mail experience, he was
an Army reservist called up to sort mail. Memories of
Big Country - the American cowboy, photos include Raymond
Holt, Fred Martin. Novelist Saul Bellow. "The Flight
of the Eagle" tells the story of a doomed 1897 hydrogen
balloon voyage. A visit to a US Polaris submarine base
in Holy Loch, Scotland, "Abraham Lincoln.".
Comment - Walt Disney's psychedelic "Fantasia". Parting
Shots - the battle over two bears named Smokey the Bear.
Full page color travel ad for Nova Scotia, Canada with
lovely photo of Keltic Lodge, Ingonish, Cape Breton.
VG - $21
G - $13
Life Magazine April
10, 1970 : Cover - A Bitter Feud : two great
Houston heart surgeons (Drs. Denton Cooley and Michael
DeBackey) at war over the human heart. Two page Clairol
Kindness heat Activated hair conditioner ad with the
droop-proof curl, cute. An odd two page photo montage
by Ray K. Metzker. Two page color Master Charge, Master
Card ad with great cartoon art by Bob Zoell (?). Two
page Firestone tires ad with Mario Andretti and his
family. Louisiana's unshaken Mafia chieftain Carlos
Marcello. Alaska's oil bonanza creates debate over what
to do with $900 million windfall, includes photo of
the old Gold Creek mine - a mess. Trumpeter Swan comes
back from the edge of extinction. The little Caribbean
island Culebra, and its US Navy bombing and gunnery
range. Los Angeles' official sorceress, Louise Huebner,
the kind and official witch of Los Angeles. Amsterdam
offers weird water toys - this is a huge plastic bag
filled with air, sealed with people inside, then you
can walk it around, the Water Walk. Full page congress
related cartoon by Lurie.
G - $16
Life Magazine April
17, 1970 : Cover - A thoughtful new student cause
- Crusade Against Too Many People, push for zero population
growth. Full page color RAleigh cigarettes ad with sunset
view of the Golden Gate bridge. Hugh Sidney does an
interesting comment piece on the presidency, Hubert
Humphrey view of life from Minnesota, includes a snowmobiling
photo. Very nice two page portrait photo of circus man
P.T. Barnum's family taken in 1875. Turkey welcomes
travelers with golden beaches, rich ruins, and low prices.
Black Studies at Cornell : two students, James Clark
and Dave Schell, try to find their way on the path to
racial understanding, photographed by Gordon Parks Jr.
Corporate heretic Robert Townsend, author of "Up the
Organization". Full page color Coke ad with Raquel Welch,
I believe. Defusing a heart attack, coronary blockage,
using a jet of high-pressure carbon dioxide. Snorkeling
photos of Fidal Castro, Cuba. Exhibition of 93-year-old
cellist Pablo Casals' treasures, awards, and mementos.
Book Review - Studs Terkel's oral history of the Depression,
"Hard Times". Parting Shots - worldwide productions
of the play "Hair". The Amargosa Opera House in Death
Valley Junction, Marta Becket, Tom Williams. Really
cool two page color Dr. Pepper ad with art by Chas.
B. Slackman.
EXC - $31
VG - $21
G - $11
F (All G, nice, but cover edges are faded) -
$5
 Life
Magazine April 24, 1970 : Cover - Jim Lovell.
Jim Lovell and Apollo 13, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert.
Cool two page color Honda motorcycle ad for the mini
trail bikes. A review of the movie "Woodstock."
Full page color Lincoln-Mercury ad for the imported
Capri Sport Coupe car, here in red. Gael Greene describes
the first calorie guide by brand name, cartoons by Mack.
The Beatles call it quits. Private world of Adolf Hitler
(Long piece, lots of photos) as photographed by Hugo
Jaeger (Hitler's photographer) and Albert Speer - here's
a quote for you - "Well wishers sent him dozens
of baby carriages, with broad hints that he find a use
for them." World's most coveted stamp - 1 cent
Guiana octagon stamp. Eric Segal, author and much more,
includes photo of him finishing the Boston Marathon
running race. Mr. Todd Tarbox's second grade class in
Rockford, Illinois - alternative education works, great
photos. Earth Day, April 22, celebration of the earth
and protest against man's defilement of it.. Humorous
pair of photos where the Czech government heavily retouches
a photo to eliminate a deposed leader. Exam-worthy photo
of Duane Hanson's sculptures (policemen and protestors)
mixed in with real people.
G - $28
F
(All G, nice, but lower left blank corner of front cover
torn off) - $10
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Life Magazine May 1,
1970 : Cover - Evelyn Trop, Chapel Hill coed
- The Delights of Spring. Two page Clairol Nice n Easy
hair color ad showing many of the colors in color. Two
page General Telephone & Electronics ad warning
people against making obscene phone calls. On Board
Apollo 13 - The astronauts' own story, Captain James
Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise Jr., they lost
all three fuel cells and both oxygen tanks - this is
exciting reading. Absolutely excellent two page Volkswagen
car ad with psychedelic paint job. Dr. William H. Masters
and Virginia E. Johnson reveal the results of their
research in new book, "Human Sexual Inadequacy". George
Wallace is campaigning to be governor of Alabama. Long-imprisoned
Yugoslav writer and politician Milovan Djilas. Leo Castelli's
clan are the first family of New York's avante-garde
art. Photo of New York City fifth avenue on Earth Day
(closed to cars and jammed with people). Great photos
of a basketball game and the New York Knicks team (Willis
Reed, Walt Frazier, Dave DeBusschere, Cazzie Russell)
it took to beat Big Lew of Milwaukee. Parting Shots
- an albino (leucosticte) penguin social report from
Antarctica.
VG - $26
G - $16
Life Magazine May 8,
1970 : Cover - Spiro Agnew Knows Best - Stern
voice of the silent majority. Joan Didion writes a column
pertaining to watching nine motorcycle movies in seven
days. Teacher Jane Elliott (on TV) has an inventive
way to teach elementary school kids about race relations
and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The
Perils of Cambodia and offering US military aid. The
Nixon ladies in their new summer dresses, these are
arranged so you could cut them out and tab them onto
the Nixon ladies like a doll. Actor Cliff Gorman in
the movie "The Boys in the Band". University of California
Santa Cruz experiments with ideal of broad liberal education,
photos include Ron Richardson, Noel King, Tod Decker,
Trisha Miller, Bruce Wandmayer, Michel Landa. Flamboyant
flautist (Flute player) Ian Anderson of the Jethro Tull
rock group. Wild two page color photo of race car driver
Jacky Ickx and his fiery crash in the Spanish Grand
Prix. Polar bears struggle to survive. Parting Shots
- Newell Bossart, who works on the 40th floor of Seattle,
Washington's First National Bank Building, put a huge
"It's A Boy!" sign in his office window - which his
wife can see from her hospital window. Small photo of
Thure Rosene of Oakland county, Michigan collecting
trash on his bicycle. Cute mention of the GAMS, OGLE
and PEEK clubs of Detroit (Girls Against More Skirt,
Organization for Getting Legs Exposed, and People for
the Enjoyment of Eyeballing Knees) - for having shorter
skirts. Paul Bellesen teaches seamanship to ghetto children.
VG - $21
G - $13
F (generally G, but cover nearly detached) -
$5
Life Magazine
May 15, 1970 : Cover - Kent
State student lies wounded.
Tragedy at Kent (article includes lots of great
photos of the National Guard with aimed guns and more),
Jeffrey Glenn Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, Allison Krause,
Bill Schroeder. The more peaceful peace rally at Yale.
Full page New York Life insurance ad with golfing theme
- we contribute to the delinquency of retirees. Full
page color Baskin-Robbins ad for mystery new 32nd flavor
of ice cream. Some neat photos by Elliott Erwitt, including
a good one of a soon to be married couple. Two page
Metropolitan Life insurance ad with Mis Britz and her
2nd grade class - 1970's fashions are not a good match
for her. Two page color Smirnoff vodka ad with cool
old beached ship. Full page Maytag ad with Mrs. Martha
Allessio of Westfield, Massachusetts and her family.
Cambodia and dissent - the crisis of presidential leadership.
World all their own - retirement communities, features
Sun City, Arizona. Sailor's million dollar gamble -
Charley Morgan builds an America's Cup boat race contender
named "Heritage." South Africa's lonely liberal,
Helen Suzman. Updating Mannequins hair and faces to
be fashionable. Lloyd Bridges and son. Cute photos of
newlyweds Colman LaPosa Jr and Ginny LaPosa from Hammond,
Indiana, includes information and photos of Jean Lussier
and others who have gone over the falls and lived
VG - $56
G - $44
F (All G, but last three pages are missing a
blank corner tip) - $24
F (All G, nice cover, but two pages have a scuffed
edge tear) - $24
Life Magazine
May 22, 1970 : Cover - Our Forgotten Vietnam
Veteran Wounded, feature story inside includes photos
of Marke Dumpert, Frank Stoppiello, Andrew Kmetzothers,
article includes talk of numerous rodents in the wards,
more neglect. Full page Raleigh cigarettes ad with color
lighthouse sunset scene. Clark Gifford on Vietnam -
Set a Date and Get Out. Some of the soft photos of Harald
Sund. Two page Sinclair Arco ad with neat color layout
including large prop plane landing on Arctic ice runway.
MGM auctions off 45 years of props and costumes, great
story with lots of photos including color photo of 65
top stars. Kodak full page ad with nice color photo
of third grade baseball team, the Mets. Cool photos
of model Sheila Edwards and ten feet of hair. A new
kind of bikini - made with specially-treated cotton-polyester
fabric - lets you tan all over while still clothed.
Game warden Jim Morgan tangles with the cattlemen on
the Salmon River Range in his fight to save the bighorn
sheep. In the face of a crashing market, Wall Street
mutual funds manager Fred Mates keeps operating. A group
of American Black Hebrew Israelites find a home at last,
photos include : Moshe Buie and daughter Naomi; Rahamim
Fouch; Gabriel Katan. The Louvre has a show of automotive
design. Parting Shots - Dixie's answer to Mount Rushmore
on Stone Mountain with a depiction of General Lee, Jefferson
Davis, and General Stonewall Jackson.
G - $16
Life Magazine May 29,
1970 : Cover - Actress Brenda Vaccaro (feature
includes other actresses who are real people such as
Kim Darby, Shelley Plimpton, Carrie Snodgress, Bonnie
Bedelia, Genevieve Bujold, Susan Clark, Beverly Todd,
Tisa Farrow, Verna Bloom. Investigative Report - corruption
in St. Louis, Missouri - Mayor Alfonso Juan Cervantes,
The Mob, and lawyer Morris Shenker, Tony Sansone, Jimmy
Michaels, Sydney Wyman, Jimmy Carroll, John Vitale,
Buster Wortman, more. Handsome two page Schaefer beer
ad with color illustration of very old beer mug, new
beer mug and can. Three heartfelt letters pertaining
to Kent State (LIFE May 15, 1970), one to Sandy Scheuer.
Another of those full page cute color American Gas Association
ads with lady dressed as gas flame or alien, take your
pick. East High School in Denver offers a radical new
program to show students the real world, includes photos
of Jerry Houlihan, Steve Ater, Lucia Vickers, Fred Kinlaw,
Lawren Cary, John Alexander, Ann Kimball, Margaret Steels,
whitewater rafting on the Yampa river, more. Dyersville,
Iowa's new hospital has everything but doctors, Dr.
Charles D. Griffin. Best-selling author John Fowles.
Italian adventurer Giorgio Amoretti. Curiously odd full
page Beautyrest Simmons mattress ad in color. Full page
nicely candid photo of football player Joe Namath in
the midst of a movie kiss with Ann-Margaret, both in
swimwear.
G - $13
Life Magazine June
5, 1970 : Cover - Inflation, Recession, and a
Frantic Bear Market, includes photos of Paul Markowitz,
sad parent to eight children, unfinished homes in Los
Angeles, housewife giving the cash register total a
wry look. . Full page Sauna Belt, a waistline reduction
item, with man wearing crop top shirt. Full page Broyhill
ad with two color rooms of the kind of furniture and
furnishings I've seen thrown out in horror and disgust
recently. Princeton students push to get Peace candidates
elected, Lew kaden, Randy Watkins, others. Cincinnati
Reds' catcher Johnny Bench, baseball player, well done
photo montage. The glories of Angkor Wat, Cambodia -
the great ruins of the 1,000-year-old Khmer Empire.
The horrors of home repair, a humor piece by William
McWhirter, "Why not buy a new home instead?".
Unusual full page De Beers diamonds ad with orange and
blue art by Dough Johnson. "Trompe l'oeil" paintings
are meant to mislead. Charming photo series of the mini-er
skirt of a fan of baseball player Frank Howard, and
of a building being dynamited in Denver, Colorado. Great
photos of a man trying every which way (and then some)
to get a 48" x 50" board into the 34" x 40" of a VW
bug, he was persistent for sure. Sad final photos of
young David Finitz going over Niagara Falls to his death.
VG - $21
G - $11
F (Generally G, but turning edge is fanned) -
$5
Life Magazine June
12, 1970 : Cover - "Tiger Cubs" training at a
camp in Jordan. Palestinian Arabs : new pride and unity,
pages of nice color photos. Full page Mutual of New
York MONY Life Insurance with art by Willard Mullin.
Gorgeous nature photos by Brett Weston of Mono Lake
with snow and yucca with dew. General Telephone &
Electronics does a great job with this two page color
Fluorescent lights ad with Frankenstein. Dr. Kleinman
writes a lengthy and vehement protest letter pertaining
to the Neglect of Veterans article in LIFE May 22, 1970
- more on same. Changing careers in middle age, with
photos of : Jack Fuller; Martin Ahrens; Mike Mitchell;
Larry Rogers; Iver Brook. Cleaning up the Hackensack
: a Girl Scout troop fights to beautify a river, just
like the river clean-up day we have in Salida every
year, lots of muddy photos of happy people, Betty Miller,
Nancy Lippincott, Jay Newell. Buck Henry writes about
filming the famous movie "Catch-22". Jensenism - psychologist
Arthur Jensen argues that blacks are born with lower
IQs than whites and stirs up a continuing sociological
furor. Battle-trained corpsmen use their skills at home
in the new MEDEX program in the state of Washington.
Furniture-maker George Nakashima creates beauty out
of wood. Men changing careers include jack Fuller (teaching
in point Hope, Alaska), Iver Brook (ecology), Mike Mitchell
(inn owner), Larry Rogers (receiving dock), Martin Ahrens
(painter).
VG - $21
G - $13
F (Generally G, but has address label scar) -
$5
Life Magazine June
19, 1970 : Cover - Actor-Director Dennis Hopper
(pictured) makes a wild new movie, The Last Movie. Another
nice two page Atlantic Arco ad with two brilliant pages
of blue arctic twilight. Graduation 1970 - it never
looked like this before, includes photos of Hollister
Francis and David Adler, Jane Klein and Dominic Varisco,
Jack Rose, Cheryl Roth, Gertrude Stein, David Sanger,
Gloria Steinem, Vassar, Tufts, Amherst, Brandeis, Brown
University, nice photo of Mitchell Toll and Marilyn
Ackerman motorcycling away, still in their gowns, more.
Parker pen full page ad with the most manicured finger
tips ever in color, they must be fake. Review article
about Joe Cocker's wild rock music act. Passenger Roger
Buchanan's photos and account of Arthur Barkley's $100
million plane hijack attempt of TWA Flight 486. President
Nixon rescues old friend Robert Finch from HEW and brings
him into the White House. Ben Chaney, brother of a slain
civil rights worker (James Chaney lynched by the Ku
Klux Klan in Philadelphia, Mississippi) faces murder
charges in South Carolina. Israeli fashion designers
and their unique and somewhat outlandish fashions. African
driver ants.
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Life Magazine June
26, 1970 : Cover - Five Americans in a Spanish
prison. 556 Americans in Foreign Jails for Smuggling
Dope, a very well written and interesting article with
lots of photos and personal quotes. Outlandish General
Tires ad with odd looking lime green car with cut-out
for very wide tire. Charming pair of photos of a loving
Great Dane youth in training and Bippie dog sleeping
with John E. Cain. Theodore H. White's The Environment
Jungle. Very blond two page Miss Clairol hair color
ad. Photographer Co Rentmeester's tour of the island
of Java, gorgeous humanistic and nature photos. Jackie
(Jacqueline Kennedy) and Ari Onassis enjoy sun and sea
on their private island named Skorpios. Full page color
Smirnoff vodka ad with charming photo of what looks
like a National costume of a central European country,
but could just be 70's fashions. Opera stars Joan Sutherland
and Marilyn Horne. "Laugh-In's" Goldie Hawn branches
out into movies "Cactus Flower" and "There's a Girl
in My Soup" and a TV special. Tools with ergonomic twist.
VG - $21
G - $11
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NOTE
: In a few cases from 1963 on, some content varies by
the distribution region, Eastern vs. Western half of
the USA.
The difference is typically just a few ads, but may
apply to a short piece on the back of an ad page.
If you need a specific
ad or short piece or photo, note this in the COMMENTS
section of the order form, thanks.
Life Magazine July
4, 1970 : Cover - Hamilton County, Iowa Boy Scouts
folding the American flag. Lovely watery photos of Antoinette
Jongen. Fourth of July Special Issue. Neat double page
Schaefer beer ad with color 1842 stein. Tom Prideaux
reviews "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon
Marigolds" and interviews playwright Paul Zindel. Movie
Review - "Catch-22". Full page color Alcoa aluminum
ad with decidedly 1970's color art. Novelist MacKinlay
Kantor and his photographer son Tim celebrate 10 different
Hamilton counties, Hamilton County, photos includes
the following towns - Hamilton, Texas; Coolidge, Kansas;
McLeansboro, Illinois, Aden, Illinois; Jasper, Florida;
Cincinnati; Webster City, Iowa; more. Conservation battles
won, photos include Ted Steele with the Wood family
(Aravaipa Canyon, Arizona, Fred and Cliff Wood), Daniel
Paul and Joe Browder. Kenneth Gibson, Newark's new mayor.
Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. writes a loving ode to his father.
Model Jane Forth is the new "now" face with the most
plucked eyebrows ever.
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Magazine July 10, 1970 : Cover - Katie O'Pace
in the surf at Ventura, swimming. California girls decorate
the beach, lots of bare skin and bikinis. Report on
Cambodia - the tottering wreck we leave behind (big
photo feature inside). Three page color Clairol hair
color and conditioner ad. Fastest rising track star
- Chi Cheng of Taiwan, female runner. Full page Mutual
of New York MONY Life Insurance with art by Willard
Mullin. Author Mario Puzo, includes photo of him playing
tennis. Gruesomely titled book "The vivisector"
about a troubled youth. Humorous photo of real elephants
investigating trash cans with tops shaped like elephants.
Connecticut parole board, with members J. Bernard Gates,
Howard Sacks, and Sedrick Rawlins. Simon Nathan does
a neat job of photographing the alphabet. The dog named
Mop, Bichon Frise. Inexpensive vacation homes, including
John and Janet Smith's home on Pend Oreille river, Washington;
a Dyna-Dome home near Phoenix; Carol and David Smith's
home near Caspian Lake, Vermont; a Rondesics home, and
an Air-Lock log home near Groom Creek, Arizona. Full
page Hit-Tru golf grip ad with Tommy Bolt. Cool photo
of a huge tire loaming over a little security fence.
This may be the oddest car ever, a VW bug cut clean
down the middle.
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Life Magazine
July 17, 1970 : Cover - Rose
Kennedy at 80 with Ted and Joan at fund-raising dinner
(feature on Rose inside that includes photo of her playing
golf). Full page Ford Pinto ad with no car, Ford Rides
again! Full page color Champale ad, malt liquor. Another
double page painful color ad from Shell. Dewar's Scotch
does a full page ad that is a profile of Steve Trachtenberg
of Boston. Two page Atlantic Arco ad with Peary of the
Arctic Circle and Brown of the Arco Circle. Short piece
about earthquakes and measurable uplift in Naples,
Italy. U.S. families find new homes in Canada, includes
Charles and Jean Argast, . Tiger Cages (for South Vietnamese
political prisoners) of Con Son. Five female scientists
live on the ocean floor for two weeks, Lameshur Bay,
Virgin Islands, Tektite 2, Margaret Lucas, Sylvia Earle.
Chet Huntley returns to Montana. Full page American
Express TRavelers Cheques with Nancy Kelly. Fashions
- sweatshirt art and other stories. Willie York from
Big East Fork. Nice follow-up story about the three
Apollo 11 astronauts a year after their flight. The
humongous wall paintings, murals, of Robert Wiegand,
Jason Crum, Don McIlvaine, others. Humorous piece about
how to address prince Charles.
G - $13
Life Magazine
July 24, 1970 : Cover - Activist actress Candice
Bergen. Humorous two page Simmons mattresses ad with
women dressed in color to match mattresses. Dilemma
of New Standards - A Draft Board Rules on a Conscientious
Objector, with photo of Mark Edgell, the Rev. George
D. Seifert, Howard Lind, others. Evidently everyone
hated the look of Just Plain Jane, Jane Forth (LIFE
July 4, 1970), as there are a number of letters to the
editors offering make-overs, with retouched versions
of her photo. Book Review - Kate Millet's "Sexual Politics".
President Nixon's college reunion for Whittier '34 at
the White House. America's garish highways coast-to-coast
with lots of obnoxious billboards, signage, more. New
Arp respirator helps babies with "respiratory distress
syndrome" - Carrie Lynn Spolski, R.E. Dillon on Air
Force jet, more. Surrealist painter Salvador Dali paints
less and less and sells more and more. Photographer
Gary Gladstone's new book, "Hey, Hey, Can't Catch Me"
about kids. Full page color Kent cigarettes ad with
studly surfer dude. Black policy makers.
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Life Magazine
July 31, 1970 : Cover - Bebe Rebozo - President
Nixon's best friend (Nixon and Rebozo golfing), feature
story includes them being members of the Pewter Vessel
Drinking Society at Key Biscayne's English Pub. Curious
diet hint from the sugar association, have a soft drink
before your main meal to curb your appetite. Alan Shepard
- the old astronaut gets his shot at the moon with Apollo
14, includes nice photo of him water skiing. Book Review
- Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock". Del Monte catsup ad
with the most gorgeous full page color tomato ever,
and it is one of their rejects. Twenty-fifth anniversary
of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Small photo
of Dyann Bush with her pet chuckwalla (this photo is
only in SOME of the issues). Balanchine's new 17-year-old
soloist ballet dancer Gelsey Kirkland. Reminder photos
of the atomic bombs blasts in Nagasaki and Hiroshima
25 years ago. At 65, the high-wire walker Karl Wallenda
crosses Georgia's 600-foot deep Tallulah Gorge. KLH
starts a child development center as a pilot model for
industry, photo of Kate LaFayette, child day care for
working parents. Clothes fresh from West Virginia sewing
bees wind up in smart boutiques, photo of Drusilla Vance.
Charming little piece about police officers meeting
pigs, Frank Moore, Daffodil, Richard MacEachern, Robert
Flaven, Fuzzy, Ronald McCoy, Fuzz, more.
VG - $21
G - $13
F (All G, but has extra
tanning) - $5
F (Generally G, but cover loosening on staples)
- $5
Life Magazine August
7, 1970 : Cover - Johnson and the Kennedys, an
intimate report by Kenneth O'Donnell. Cute full page
Toyota ad with small stationwagon full of girls in swimming
suits and perplexed male holding his surf board outside.
America's overloaded big city criminal courts, photo
of Bronx Assistant D.A. Jeff Bernstein, Prosecutor Frank
Silverstein, art by David Levine. Unusual Fruit of the
Loom full page ad with russian language. Race cars,
Lee Roy Yarbrough pit crews, George Drolsom's burning
car, Bruce McLaren. Movie Review - "Diary of a Mad Housewife".
Inquiry into the sudden death of wealthy Greek shipowner
Stavros Niarchos' wife Eugenie. Joe Namath, football
player, stars in movie, "C.C. and Company" includes
great large color photo of him on a chopper motorcycle.
Threatened America - engineers insist on straightening
our streams, with photos of : Eddie Coan, Murl Sims,
Lawrence county, Alabama. A humorous piece about all
of the "cute" names men call women such as
Cheesecake and Tomato.
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- $13
F (All G, but cover
edge is rough) - $5
Life Magazine August
14, 1970 : Cover - Summer Nomads : the fun and
frustrations of Americans on the move. The New York
Metropolitan Museum has a new display on the rise of
American Architecture featuring wonderful old buildings
such as the Flatiron building in Manhattan. Odd four
day color Montgomery Wards ad with lots of different
clothes and things, rather creepy lighting from below.
Special Section includes : Caravans on the open road
(cool photo of long line of Airstream trailers, more),
Houseboats on the busy waters (includes houseboat the
Janet II), Youth in Its Frustrated Festivals (Powder
Ridge, skinny dippers, drugs, Dr. William Abruzzi) and
Venturers abroad on trains (mostly in Europe, neat photo
of scooter/motorcycle/bicycle = moped). Full page Metropolitan
Life insurance company with Nicky K. who drank a bottle
of furniture polish. Poet Richard Brautigan. A number
of letters to the editors pertaining to the Conscientious
Objector article in LIFE July 24, 1970. Manhattan's
doomed iron palaces await demolition. Parting Shots
- performance artist Keith Arnatt's disappearing act
- literally - into the earth **
May include a sample small flexible vinyl record of
Swing music, page 10.
EXC (with Swing Record) - $41
VG (with Swing Record) - $31
VG - $21
G (with Swing Record) - $21
G - $13
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Magazine August 21, 1970 : Cover - The Midi Muscles
In (very cute photo of women in miniskirt holding up
a midi skirt), great feature article inside, crochet
was in, too, Rock Hudson doesn't like midis. Chevrolet
actually boasts in its full page Vega ad that it will
get 25 MPG more of less. Bloody breakout attempt from
a courtroom at San Rafael leaves the judge and three
men dead, William Christmas, James D. McClain, Judge
Harold Haley, Jonathan Jackson. Neat color filtered
photos of fruit by Ellen Rogin. A short piece about
horse racing at the Saratoga race track. Nana Opoku
Ware II is installed as head of the Ashanti tribe in
Ghana, a photo of true excess. Arab-Israeli cease-fire
on the Suez, shows candid troop conditions. Charlie
Manson "family" waits at their ranch while he faces
murder charges, Danny Beausoleil, Catherine Share, Mary
Brunner, Chuck Lovett, Ginney Gentry, Cathy Gillis,
Lynn Fromme, Sandra Good Pugh, and Ruth Ann More house.
Affluent Americans are eating too much of the wrong
kinds of food. Complaints of racial problems arise during
filming of "Halls of Anger", photos of director Paul
Bogard; star Calvin Lockhart. Turning on with alpha
waves. French balloonist Louis Allione. Parting Shots
- Lucy, the 65-foot-high wood-and-tin pachyderm at Margate,
New Jersey, has to pack her trunk and move away. Full
page color Sears ad with Spyder 500 bicycle.
G - $15
Life Magazine August
28, 1970 : Cover - In an era of sexuality, growing
concern about pornography, photos of Stephanie Warne
and Mike Venz, Bob Cook, Mason City, Iowa, more, the
article even includes some photos of nudity. Charming
full page color Wolfschmidt vodka ad with silly snorkeling
scene. Investigative report on congressional ethics
expert Senator Joseph Tydings. Paris exhibition celebrates
Matisse's 100th birthday, big feature with lots of color
samples of his art. Alaskan Walter Hickel Is the Secretary
of the Interior of President Nixon's Cabinet. All-black
detective comedy, "Cotton Comes to Harlem", author Chester
Himes. Parting Shots - Patricia Palinkas, wife of the
place-kicker for Orlando Panthers held the football
for husband Steve in an exhibition game.
EXC - $38
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F (All G, nice, but has minimal water mark in
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Life Magazine September
4, 1970 : Cover - The Cover of the First
Life October 28, 1920 (see our companion store 2Neat.com).
Women's Liberation feature article includes photos of
Alice Paul, Flo Kennedy, Kate Millett, more, opinions
of Catherine Drinker Bowen, Jane Trahey, Chloethiel
Woodward Smith, Poppy Northcutt, Muriel Siebert, Sarah
Hughes, Florynce Kennedy, Alice Paul. Cool two page
color General Telephone & Electronics GE ad for
Sylvania Magicube flash bulb. Angry author Kate Millett.
America's Cup sailboat trials, photos - Sam Wakeman
and Westy Saltonstall, Charles Morgan, the Valiant,
the Intrepid, the Heritage, the France, others. 1970
Obie award- winning musical "The Me Nobody Knows". College
students design and race clean-air cars, 44 cars across
the United States, electric cars, steam cars, turbine
engines and much more. Northern Ireland's violent summer,
includes two page photo of rioters and policemen on
William street in Londonderry. . Director Paul Mazursky.
Full page color Alcoa aluminum ad featuring sailboats
in the America's Cup. Bleak fate of the Yankee textile
mills, Busiel Mill, Belknap mill, Amoskeag Mills, Harmony
Mills, China mill. Apocalyptic warnings about the future
of our fragile earth (An inconvenient truth as told
30 years ago) with comments by Paul Erlich, Peter Franken
and other famous scientists.
VG - $21
G - $13
F (mild discoloration
on last few pages) - $5
Life Magazine September
11, 1970 : Cover - Angela Davis wanted by the
FBI, feature inside pertaining to her involvement in
the court shootings in LIFE August 21, 1970. Full page
Maytag ad with Lillie Counts of Lombard, Illinois and
her daughters. Big two page color Beautyrest Simmons
mattress ad with football player Roman Gabriel. Portland,
Oregon officials avert antiwar protests at 52nd Annual
American Legion convention, photo of Rudy Zern and Mike
Senecal. Full page color Del Monte Tuna ad with biggest
forkfull of tuna. Great passenger liner "Elizabeth"
comes to an ignoble end, includes photos of Robert Miller
and Charles Willard, Stanton Miller. Painter Henri Matisse's
sculptures. Football Coach Vince Lombardi remembered.
Excerpt from Robert Ardrey's new book, "The Social Contract"
says that human overcrowding is going to lead to chaos
or dictatorship. Cement hull yachts, photo of Al Birch,
the concrete Ketch Limmershin. Centerfold color Ford
ad with Pinto. Parting Shots - samples of man-powered
early flight attempts including Derek Piggot.
EXC - $38
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F (All G, but bound a bit crooked at publishers)
- $5
Life Magazine September
18, 1970 : Fold-out Cover - Top Pop Singers Engelbert
Humperdinck and Tom Jones plus Gordon Mills. Three page
color Ford ad with bronze Ford, silver Mustang, and
gold Pinto 1971 cars. Movie Review of Jack Nicholson's
new film "Five Easy Pieces". Cute full page color Gillette
ad with monkey shaving a brave man. Half page Olde Bourbon
ad with old style baseball. Full page Army recruiting
ad - hard to believe anyone would join after these bad
wars. Palestinian guerillas hijack big jet airliners,
a Pan American 747, includes photo of highjacker Leila
Khaled, also TWA and Swissair jets in Jordan. State
University of Wisconsin physics lab destroyed by a terrorist
bomb, photos includes physicist Joseph R. Dillinger
. Fashion - dog collars for women, chokers. Really colorful
Campbell's Vegetable Sup ad, full page. Young black
Chicago policeman Renault Robinson. Visit to hurricane
Camille-damaged Mississippi Gulf Coast one year later.
Centerfold color Ford ad with 1971 Mercury Cougar. Parting
Shots - strong-fisted war protester Kathy Huppe, elected
Miss Montana, barred from Miss America contest. Full
page Ayds weight loss ad with Ellen Clausing Jepertinger.
The new amniotic tests for not yet born babies.
VG - $21
G - $13
Life Magazine September
25, 1970 : Cover - Greek actor Takis Emmanuel
in a Moroccan outfit. Men return to fashion elegance,
dandyism, ruffles, more!, includes Franco Piscardi,
Larry Piller (tennis teacher), Eric Cruz, Paul Stooshnoff
and others. Rather nice full page color Emerson television
ad with tones of bronze and football scene on the TV.
Full page Maytag ad with Mrs. John Carlton of Ontario,
California and her daughter. Very cute photo of the
wife of Joseph L. McLaughlin Jr at a public telephone.
US Phantom F-4 jet protects Israelis from new Arab missiles,
includes cool two page vertical photo of an F-4 Phantom
in St. Louis, more. The Mets, Pirates, and Cubs vie
in National League East Penant baseball race, great
photos include Manny Sanguillen and Glenn Beckert. Mill
Valley's third-grade singers, with Rita Abrams. Brigadeer
General Sidney B. Berry Jr.. Movie stunt lady Mari-Lou
MacDonald - really fun photos of her hanging off a skyscraper,
jumping on a horse, crashing a car, more. Centerfold
color Parker ad of the T-1 pen. Parting Shots - Canada's
Pierre Elliott Trudeau judo flipped during a recent
visit to Japan.
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- $21
G - $11
P (all G, but
cover split at spine and detached) - $5
Life Magazine October
2, 1970 : Cover - Martha Mitchell - talkative
as ever. A neat two page photo by Jack Ward of a black
and grey scene at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Full
page Air Canada ad with pilot, flight attendant and
other airline workers. Humor in photography with a radio
technician working on a DC-3 airplane cockpit panel.
America's mood - five different LIFE writers return
to their home towns to check, photos include Dew #2
Chili Parlor in Springfield, Illinois, John Conroy and
nine children, more. War flares in Jordan. Tubing on
the Apple River, Wisconsin. Pan American Flight 101,
a 747 and emergency landing in Bangor, Maine after bomb
scare. "Catch-22" star Alan Arkin. Saturday morning
TV's "Lance Link, Secret Chimp", includes photo of chimps
riding chopper motorcycles with training wheels. Agostino
'o Paxxo, the Madman motorcyclist of Naples, Antonio
Mellino. A SUPER article that polls the medical profession
and what they think of their patients, includes some
great "Top tens" that ought to be posted in
all waiting rooms. May have NFL football portfolio ad
section inserted in the center.
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- $5
Life Magazine October
9, 1970 : Cover - Gamal Abdel Nasser, leader
of Egypt. Middle east after Nasser assassination, includes
two page photo of amazingly overloaded train going to
funeral (all men, of course). Neat two page aerial photo
of Thistle racing dinghy regatta by George Silk. Full
page color Coleman Skiroule snowmobile ad. Book Review
- Ernest Hemingway's posthumous "Islands in the Stream".
Full page ad for the Whirlpool Trash Masher. Presidential
power aboard the Sixth Fleet, two page vertical photo
of Nixon on the Saratoga. . Full page Maytag ad with
Mrs. Ward O. Griffen, Jr., of Lexington, Kentucky and
her three daughters. Football Coach Joe Paterno of Penn
State. Thirteen-year-old Patrick Powell's Tom Sawyer
boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri. Romain Gary's novel,
"White Dog". Swimming pool art painted and tiled on
the bottoms, some psychedelic, some classic. Centerfold
color American Motors ad with Matador, Javelin, Sportabout,
Gremlin, Maverick, and Ambassador. Parting Shots - Georgia
Governor Lester Maddox tries on a pair of water buffalo
horn.
VG - $21
G - $11
Life Magazine October
16, 1970 : Cover - Vice President Spiro Agnew
on the warpath against "radicals". Two page colorful
Seagram's 7 whiskey with a party that features lots
of people, lots of meat and cheese, lots of whiskey
and one football. Movie Review - Truffaut's "Wild Child".
Drug deaths of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Little
wigs for little girls, photos of Beatrice Weeks, Linda
Hickey, Vicki Crisafi, Stacy Porter. Old retired farmers
eagerly return to work under a new plan called Green
Thumb, photos of Chris Jensen and Trygve Hanson, Fred
Moench, Rolland Dissmore. Full page color travel ad
for Jamaica with Elcylin Whyte. Dean Kahler, paralyzed
by National Guard bullet returns to Kent State. Cassette
TV, this appears to be an early form of videos and VCR,
they are already worried about bootlegging. Clare Booth
Luce rewrites Ibsen's "A Doll's House" in the light
of Women's Lib. Actor Peter Boyle in "Joe". Russian
music mystic Alexander Scriabin, revival of his music.
Centerfold color Ford ad with 1971 Ford LTD. Full page
color Iberia airlines ad with emphasis on fine dining
in the plane. Peter Nernetschek has the great idea to
take photos of apartment occupants, enlarge them, and
place them in windows of the big complex so you could
see who lived where - the tenants became much more friendly
with each other after this, Munich, Germany.
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Life Magazine
October 23, 1970 : Cover - boxer
Muhammad Ali - Look out, he's back! Double page Canadian
Club whiskey ad with 65 imitator Canadian whiskies in
color. Full page Cachet fragrance ad includes color
photos of Jade Hobson (with two different colored eyes),
Barbara Alexander, Mary Ries. Cute photo of ex-police
German shepard dog belonging to Warren Felton drinking
from a water fountain on her own, she learned how to
operate the lever. Full page color Grande Canadian whisky
ad with dog sled team. New GIs in Vietnam - commanding
them in the old way is out, includes Duane Sedler, John
Munn, Marty Hyland, Brian Utermahlen, Jack Galvin, Chris
Manis, pot smoking, marijuana. "The Free Life"
- strange story of a transatlantic balloon trip virtually
bound to fail, Pam and Rod Anderson, Malcolm Brighton.
Two page color Dodge ad with red and black 1971 Charger
car. Life of Undersea coral reefs. Nobel prize for Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn. Full page Maytag ad with Pat and Mel Renfro
(Football player) of Dallas, Texas and their three children.
Son Noah and mental and developmental handicaps. Full
page Farmers Insurance ad with California Driver Donald
T. Putney. Full page Delta airlines ad with flight attendant
Kris Conrad. Mr. Sara Lee - Nathan Cummings.
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VG/G - $26
G - $20
Life Magazine
October 30, 1970 : Cover - TV talk show host
Dick Cavett, his feature article includes a photo of
him with the greatest dog. Movie Review - "I Never Sang
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