Life Magazine, August 2, 1948 - Sprinter Mel Patton

Nice full page movie poster ad for “The Velvet Touch” with Rosalind Russell. Illustrations from first Japanese history of America, 1853. Super full page color Cannon Percale Sheets ad with woman in swimming suit and seahorse. Editorial - Western Union. Another humorous full page Sanforized fabrics ad with art by Gregori, man with hoe. Some interesting illustrations from early Japanese versions of America, i.e. Japanese take on America. Pilgrims from Latvia cross the Atlantic in ketch “Gundel” from Sweden, includes photo of Amanda Lamberts and sons. Movies lose their great pioneer, D.W. Griffith. Report on Kinsey, author of books “Sexual behavior in the human male” and … female. The Reds counterattack in Malaya, the two LIFE photographers had quite an ordeal! Photo essay - the Andes, includes photo of Chilean ski resort of Portillo. Photo essay - Child's World, television show. Ballet inspired by Lizzie Borden. Nice full page color Maxwell House Coffee ad with wilderness canoeing theme, art by Ogden Pleissner. Convicts see a movie of their own escape, “Canon City” and Colorado State Penitentiary. Life goes to a company outing, Hartford Insurance Companies in San Francisco, includes photos of John Emerson, Beverly Wood, Charles Kelly, R.H. Butler and others. Full page color United States Brewers Foundation beer ad with excellent art by Austin Briggs. Sweetest full page color Pacific sheets ad with art by Gannam, love letters. Off to London for 14th Olympics, includes photos of Bob Mathias, Ann Curtis, Patsy Elsener, Zoe Ann Olsen, Vicki Manolo Draves, Jimmy McLane, Lennart Strand, Herb McKenley and others, swimmers, runners. Full page Royal Crown cola ad with baseball theme, photo and cartoons, William Bendix in the Babe Ruth story. Full page color Camel cigarettes ad with cartoon art of steeple-jack George Joyce.