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I've finished Penrod Jashber , the third and last ( :( ) of the Tarkington Booth Penrod books. I think this was probably overall the best of the three. :D A couple of thoughts: I like that this book heavily involved Herman and Verman, my two favorite characters. My favorite aspect of the detective o...

Noteworthiness

Storming

Two vintage Maybelline ads, the top from the '20s (couldn't determine exact year), the bottom from 1932. I particularly like the style of the top one.

From the New Ideas from the Inventors section, March 1951. This is a second-degree burn waiting to happen.

Control Your Emotions (Coronet, 1950) https://youtu.be/j8SqUXpECtQ?si=SSo_MIzndEC6JzMZ The psychologist looks familiar. (Maybe he’s been in other Coronet films?) That seemed like kind of a silly trick, pouring the soda back and forth like that and spilling it all over the place. I didn’t understand...

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Gesticulation

Energy

483 It’s good to see Willie again, but I’m not quite sure what to make of him, are you? At first he seems kind of zonked out and strangely appears to have no memory of the agonies he endured under Barnabas. And then at the old house, he seems oddly docile (as Julia points out), but then toward the e...