Is anything more comical than the adventures of Natty Bumppo cavorting about with his long rifle and his Mohican foster-brother Chingachgook?
That Deerslayer Slays Them Every Time
Category: History
Hop On The Bus, Gus
Still Going At 99
The lady in black is Zsa Zsa Gabor (with husband #3 of 9 George Sanders schlepping the bags) chatting up Earl Blackwell at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Yes, nine husbands. “I am a marvelous housekeeper: Every time I leave a man I keep his house.”
Yes, she is 99 years old, just like the 1980 Toto song by the same name.
While none of us was alive when she was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936, most of our parents weren’t even born when she came into this world in 1917. A stamp cost two cents, women couldn’t vote, Buffalo Bill Cody was in his last year, Chaplin starred in silent films, and the “I Want You” poster, featuring Uncle Sam, attracted thousands of U.S. recruits to WWI duty.
Here she was on her 94th birthday with husband #9.
He plans to throw her a big party this summer to celebrate her 100th birthday (prematurely) and then return to Budapest, her original home, to spend the rest of her life.
Why Narcoleptic Nan Never Gets A Second Date
What’s The Magic Word, Pete?
Tugging With Joe & Kerry
Tell me this guy doesn’t look like a young Michael Caine.
I Pledge Allegiance…Or Do I?
Perhaps it was a spontaneous self-exam? Or halfway to a clutch-the-pearls moment? Was it smugness or disdain?
Place: Monte Carlo, 1959, Red Cross Gala
People: Peter Ustinov, Italian Baroness Afdera Franchetti, Elsa Maxwell, and Henry Fonda
In the late 1950s, when Jane Fonda asked her father how he prepared before going on stage, she was baffled by his answer, “I don’t know, I stand there, I think about my wife, Afdera, I don’t know.” Jane, a proponent of Method Acting, could not understand how effortlessly her father prepared for a role. (wikipedia)
He must not have thought about his fourth wife for long, however, as he divorced her in 1961 and moved on to wife #5.
No wonder Barbara Stanwyck gave him the look.
Cards At The Esquivel Home
I purchased a yearbook this weekend at an estate sale and discovered that the owner had written words all over the images.
For example, this junior student was not only ugly, but “Granny Ugly.” Several girls held that distinguished title.
This boy with glasses was labeled blind, as were about a half dozen other boys.
Blind to what, I wonder? Her charms?
It may not be an insult today, but this gal was “Skinny Bones.”
But lest you think she had no kind words to ink her page, she did find Judy the pretty one here.
Or maybe it was Judy’s yearbook?
Newfangled X-Ray Machine
Pressure Cookers Indeed
A young man in Miss McFarland’s homemaking class (spared the apron) incites suspicion as he reaches for the pressure cooker. Perhaps he will fare better in the canning process.
Cherry Creek Campfire
Trust In Me
In keeping with yesterday’s eyeglasses post, we continue with the theme.
Is it me, or does Mr. Gibson have Jungle Book snake eyes?
He’s like one of those cats with two colors of eyes.
And check out Mr. Curry down below. While Richard’s pipe and Donald’s head of nails are interesting features, Paul has the intoxicating eyes. You can’t turn away.
Maybe it was something in the water. Even some of the professors at Western New Mexico University had crazy eyes.
Professor Morton looks like he just hid the body and is biting his tongue to keep quiet.
I almost cropped Professor Habeeb out of this image but I did not want to deny you his amazing salt ‘n’ pepper hair, valiantly defying gravity as it swirls about his skull like a kudzu vine.
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