Copies of the March 23, 1946 issue are available on eBay; mine just came. If you shop on eBay for your own copy, make sure you are considering a "full copy" of the magazine, not merely a detached cover photo.
Skillful cover art depicts the Windy City. |
It is going to take some time to post the entire article of two entire 11" x14" pages plus parts of four more. The result will span multiple posts; although I certainly will link them together for reference, some readers might have a better time with the entire article in hand.
And the entire issue is quite interesting. For ten cents the customer got work by Irving Wallace, H. E. Bates, technically skilled artists, and highly entertaining advertising designers. The abundant ads are aimed at men and women, country folk and city-dwellers, military and civilians, young and old, dirt farmers, cattlemen, miners, mechanics, homemakers. Americans were not all just in our information "silos" at that time; we were more aware of each other, of the lives and concerns of our countrymen in various walks of life.
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