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Dean and Newman's Vaguely Homoerotic Screen Test

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But Who Would We Flirt With?

From a 1932 ad for the Automat in London: "Dialing [the] number of soft drink or wine delivers a shot from the spigot, thus eliminating customary bar tenders." Well, that can't possibly have been good for the wine. [ More »

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Soviet Union magazine

Those communist-era magazines seem so quaint, if one forgets the dull horror of the system that produced them. Russia's Soviet Museum carries an excellent online collection of the usual propaganda posters and photographs—and these images of Soviet Union magazine, in which the strategic rockets are daintier than the women's fashion. [via Metafilter]

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National Press Club: Tolerating Women Since 1971

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In Happier Times

Newspapers, now suffering a technological inferiority complex, weren't always so apologetic. The New York Public Library has a wonderful collection of confident posters, promoting newspapers such as the Sunday Herald and the New York Times, from the turn of the century. The issue of the Times here featured offers a selection of stories with a definite air of its current Sunday Styles section—except for a fascination with British aristocracy now superseded by Hamptons plutocrats. The pitch for a story about the market for heiresses in Britain—A Matrimonial Slave Mart—is more lascivious than the uptight Times would now allow. After the coverlines comes an awesomely cocky pitch: "Many Other Features Equally Good."

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