Below, a typical theme of the era. Rudolf Flesch responds to an article in the Saturday Evening Post (a relic that was once found in most middle-class homes)  about the likelihood of World War III, which usually broke down as the "free world" versus the "communist empire."

Vice President Richard Nixon leads New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller in a Gallup poll of likely GOP presidential candidates.

Conspiracies in America's past!

Iraq — and all that oil — may go to the communists!
 

America forgets its veterans! Traffic is terrible! Landlords are jerks! We're cutting at home and sending money to foreigners!

The Times runs articles on two local religious figures in the Sunday paper. But what figures! Aimee Semple McPherson and Manly Palmer Hall!  I should mention a book by my friend and colleague, Louis Sahagun, on Hall. Check it out.

And check here for Lately Thomas' "Vanishing Evangelist."
  

Gloria Vanderbilt vs. Leopold Stokowski!

What if "Gorgo" was set in Paris instead of London? 

Herb "Hy" Gardner's "The Nebbishes," a foreshadowing of the dismal state of comics' artwork yet to come. Fortunately, the strip was soon canceled and he put his time to better use writing "A Thousand Clowns."