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‘February House’ Recalls Real-life Artists In 1940S Brooklyn
nydailynews.com 3 weeks, 3 days agoPicture this: A pale yellow rowhouse in Brooklyn Heights where the roommates include Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, W.H. Auden and Gypsy Rose Lee. If those walls of that rental could talk, right?
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10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes Of The 1940S
io9.com 3 weeks, 6 days agoWe all remember the golden years of 1977-1982, when Hostess ran ads for their food in comic books: as this exhaustive site puts it , "five years of amazing super beings tossing food to madmen." For modern readers, Captain America and Batman throwing Hostess Fruit Pies and Twinkies to supervillains to distract them remains the iconic use of superheroes in advertising. More »










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