Topical Guide 347
Mark Dorset
Literature: Magazines: Popular or Mass-Market: Life
Epigrams and Aphorisms: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
For a while, she sat in the dark. Then she shook herself, told herself to act her age, switched the floor lamp on, and picked up a copy of Life. On the cover was a photograph of student nurses, apparently listening to a lecture. One caught her eye, the one in the lower right-hand corner. …
She flipped the pages idly.
HOW RY-KRISP HELPED MARION TALLEY REDUCE …
WORLD’S BIGGEST BALL (200 ft.): THEME CENTRE OF THE FAIR …
There were photographs of models of statues to be erected on the fair’s central mall. Lorna admired the modeling of the musculature of a naked running man who symbolized Day. … She didn’t care at all for the woman meant to symbolize Night. … She read an article about Germany that concluded, “Nazi Germany faces her destiny with the greatest war machine in history. And the inevitable destiny of the great war machines of the past has been to destroy the peace of the world . . . .” She flipped past … an advertisement for Old Overholt, Old Taylor, and Old Grand-Dad whiskies …Herb ’n’ Lorna, Chapter 14
The caption below the last picture begins: “Hitler’s young men get a daily lecture on Germany’s need for expansion.” [Today, Thursday, September 22, 2022, it is superfluous for me to add this comment, quoting Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr: “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” But I can’t resist.]
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