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...publicity." Said Paul Cadmus in Manhattan: "I don't think it libels the Navy. Nobody expects or wants the Navy to be made up of Lord Fauntleroys and Galahads. I think the picture portrays an enjoyable side of Navy life. I think it would make a good recruiting poster. I will raise my prices...
...Under pressure of the emergency, the Army's authorized strength is being upped to 400,000. Resurrected was a dramatic World War I poster by James Montgomery Flagg. Twenty-three years later. Uncle Sam once more looked hard at the young men of his country, pointed a sharp, arresting finger, said "I Want...
...this show they studiously ignored advertising clients. Robert Riggs (Dole pineapple, Goodyear tires) exhibited his circus lithographs, which have steadily won critical acclaim in the past six years. A surrealist painting was hung by famed French Poster Artist A. M. Cassandre (Dubonnet). Instead of seminudes in bathtubs for Cannon towels, Gladys Rockmore Davis sent a demure little girl writing. Peter Helck, who turns out ads for Champion spark plugs, Goodyear tires, refreshed his soul with an antiquated locomotive in a railroad yard. Leon Karp, layout man for N. W. Aver, painted his son in rougher textures than ad clients generally...
...dangers of the sea are passed and those of the firm ground begin. Naples seemed carnival-gay as we sailed in, with bands playing, flags fluttering. The sun was blazing-luncheon was laid on deck. The bay looked like a poster of itself. For an hour or so we clattered around the town in a fiacre (Naples hasn't heard of rubber tires yet), stopping occasionally to drink coffee...
...mere prospect, Elmer posed last week for his portrait. From barn sides, billboards all over the U. S. his grin will hint that nobody ought to miss the new (and cheaper) wonders of the New York World's Fair. In real life the man on the poster, painted by New York Artist Howard Scott, is 50-year-old Leslie Ostrander, actor and professional model. But to everyone he will be just Elmer...