LIFE Magazine 1950, May 1 Rising Star Ruth Roman, The Yankees Beat The Red Sox 

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    Life Magazine Cover : Rising star Ruth Roman.

    • Curious two page Borg-Warner ad with Ripley’s Believe it or not theme.
    • Brumas, the Polar Bear cub, in London.
    • Neat full page color Coro costume jewelry ad.
    • Article – Hindus wash away their sins in the Ganges.
    • Yankees beat the Red Sox in season opener – Al Zarilla, Tommy Henrich, Joe Dimaggio, baseball.
    • Ancestors of Grant and Lee open the Civil War monument.
    • Great full page color Champion Spark Plugs ad with Scottie dog and baseball theme.
    • Photo – Pickpocket picking the pocket of the man carrying gravely injured matador Rafael Rodriguez out of the ring in Mexico City.
    • Key West, Florida, shrimp fishing.
    • Nice full page color Campbell’s vegetable soup ad, sadly not signed.
    • Trail of Owen Lattimore, this is part of Joe McCarthy and his communist charges.
    • Human Growth movie explains birds and bees to 6 year olds.
    • Italian engineers make a power plant using earth’s heat – Larderello.
    • Sun Sing Chinese theater in New York.
    • Profile of Opera creator Gian-Carlo Menotti on Broadway.
    • Havoline motor oil ad featuring tennis star Jack Kramer.
    • Cassino is built again.
    • Michigan medical school – Tom Peterson through the four years.
    • Utah’s governor Brack Lee is an honest politician.
    • Lambert Hitchcock built furniture in 1826.
    • Who looks like Howdy Doody? – Billy Oltmann.
    • Another cute full page color Imperial whiskey ad with art by Albert Dorne.

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Be sure to check out all of our World War 2 copies of LIFE magazine and read about the events as they happened. 
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