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The Saturday Evening Post published current event articles, editorials, human interest pieces, humor, illustrations, a letter column, poetry with contributions submitted by readers, single-panel gag cartoons, including Hazel by Ted Key, and stories by leading writers of the time. It was known for commissioning lavish illustrations and original ...
Hot Rods to Hell is a 1967 American suspense film, [2] the last by director John Brahm. [3] The film was based on a 1956 Saturday Evening Post story by Alex Gaby, "52 Miles to Terror", [4] which was the working title of the film.
Underworld U.S.A. (also known as Underworld USA) is a 1961 American neo-noir [2] crime film produced, written, and directed by Samuel Fuller.It tells the story of a 14-year-old boy who goes to enormous lengths to get revenge against the mobsters who beat his father to death.
Stevan Dohanos (May 18, 1907 – July 4, 1994) was an American artist and illustrator of the social realism school, best known for his Saturday Evening Post covers, and responsible for several of the Don't Talk set of World War II propaganda posters. [1] He named Grant Wood and Edward Hopper as the greatest influences on his painting.
The film is based on the 1957 novel Company of Cowards by Jack Schaefer, whose inspiration was an article by William Chamberlain, published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1956. Chamberlain recounts the apocryphal Civil War stories of "Company Q" (19th century army slang for the sick list), a unit composed of coward soldiers who are given a ...
Falter painted close to 200 covers like this one for The Saturday Evening Post while he was alive. And illustration art is actually a pretty popular item these days - hence, the huge price tag for ...
The list of six million Post subscribers was sold to Life for cash, a $2.5 million loan, and a contract with Curtis' circulation and printing services subsidiaries. Despite these attempts to revive the Saturday Evening Post, and failing to find a purchaser for the magazine, Curtis Publishing shut it down in 1969. [13]
She appeared on the cover of the May 30, 1964 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. According to Don Heckman of the Los Angeles Times , Hester was "one of the originals—one of the small but determined gang of ragtag, early-'60s folk singers who cruised the coffee shops and campuses, from Harvard Yard to Bleecker Street , convinced that their ...