National Home Monthly Magazine, February (Feb.) 1942 - Gracie Fields / Toronto Maple Leafs / Science - Secret Weapon of the Soviets / Victory Bonds Centrefold Ad

Stewart, Dr. H.L.; Wire, H.C.; Kyne, P.B.; Shields, F.; Walters, C.L.; Carter, H.D.; Roxborough, H.H.; Eayrs, C.; Bayne, E.G.; Thompson, F.; Henderson, V.; Et al

Verlag: Home Publishing Company / National Home Monthly, Winnipeg, 1942

Beschreibung

56 pages. Features: News digest includes 'Invasion Prospects', 'The Fuehrer's Necessity', Setting the Far East Ablaze', and more; Nice photo-illustrated ad by the Department of Munitions and Supply for Canada shows woman pondering joining the workforce; Science - Secret Weapon of the Soviets - article with photo of the Dickstein sisters at the Medical Institute at Rostove-on-Don, and Professor Lepeshinskaya; Jungle Flight (short story); Master Mariner (short story); Hockey's Maple Leafs Didn't Grow on Trees - article in the Toronto Maple Leafs with photos of Conn Smythe, Hank Goldup, goalie Bastien, and a Leafs-Bruins 1941 playoff game; Gracie Fields - The Highest Paid Artist in the World - photo-illustrated article; The Peace and the Quiet; A Man Comes Home; Salute to Seventy - article with photos of C. Aubrey Smith, Donald Meek, May Robson, Frank Morgan, Edward Everett Horton, Anne Bauchens, Hobart Bosworth, Wallace Beery and Lewis Stone; Fleischmann's Yeast one-page ad features illustration of pathetic Europeans lined up for food, in contrast to Canadian family eating feast; Dominion Textile ad includes illustrations of servicemen; Colgate ad includes illustration of the Dionne Quintuplets marching in military style, with inset illustration of their doctor, Allan R. Dafoe; Woodbury Cold Cream ad features photo of Ilona Massey; Excellent Victory Bonds centrefold ad features world map with silhouettes of Japanese and German soldiers menacing North America from west and east respectively, and states 'The War is at our Door"; Article "On the Kitchen Front" covers tea time entertaining, inexpensive meat recipes, lesser-known pickles, an overseas recipe and the roast of the month; Rare colour ad for Canadian canned lobster, sponsored by the Canadian Department of Fisheries; Fashion article and illustrations; Photo of girl who ate too many chocolates, submitted by W.R. Wilson of Sudbury, Ontario; Quotes from around the world; H.J. Heinz ad inside back cover features illustration of hand-logging scene and horses hauling huge logs; Back cover colour Coke ad shows bottle in one hand and wrench in the other; and more. Unmarked with heavy external wear and archival-tape repairs to coverfold. Not pretty but a worthy reading copy of this excellent wartime issue. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 201g4792

Bibliografische Details

Titel: National Home Monthly Magazine, February (...

Verlag: Home Publishing Company / National Home Monthly, Winnipeg

Erscheinungsdatum: 1942

Einband: Single Issue Magazine

Illustrator: Smith, Hall (cover illustration); Wills, William; House, Nathan; Mastri, Fiore; Burke, May C.

Zustand: Fair

Auflage: First Edition