... but thank you for explaining that to me.
And then there's this... the original art work for the cover of Mad Magazine in April of 1956:
Click to enlarge, of course. How many of those characters and/or events can you name? Here are a couple o' cheat sheets. As for me, I was a mere ten years old in 1955 but some of those faces and events are familiar. Like the Brooklyn Dodgers... another place, another time. (Sigh)
H/t: to Hi Fructose Mag's Tmblr site.
I like how MacArthur is just fading away.
ReplyDeleteThat WAS a nice touch, eh?
DeleteI was all of a month this side of my mother's insides in April of '56; even so. . .
ReplyDeleteI was surprised how much of this I recognized. Rocky Marciano, Winston Churchill (is that Clement Atlee flashing the 'V' sign?). Casey Stengel; 'course the Brooklyn version of the Dodgers had just won their one-and-only World Series championship while I was womb-bound the previous October. Ike, Adlai Stevenson, Nixon in a golf cap, Harry Truman, Tom Dewey; Mao, Chou En-Lai, Khrushchev; and various buxom babezoids who had jumped the shark by the time I was paying attention. . .
And yeah, the fading MacArthur was a clever touch. . .
You have a good eye and remember your history well, Craig. I'm pretty sure that IS Mr. Atlee you see, but I wonder why Churchill is in the montage. Anthony Eden was the Conservatives leader and Prime Minister after the '55 elections (I went to The Wiki and looked).
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