Chinese Troops Cross India Border!

Posted on August 28, 2009 by lmharnisch
Aug. 28, 1959, Cover

Aug. 28, 1959: The Times brings out an extra as Chinese troops cross into India.

Aug. 28, 1959, Beatniks

Aug. 28, 1959, Beatniks

Aug. 28, 1959, Chubby
Are these girls really supposed to be chubby?

At left, strange occurrences at the Gas House (d. 1962), 1501 Ocean Front Walk in Venice.

"Mrs. Mabel Hardy, living in an apartment building across from the Gas House, complained of jukebox and bongo noises and the parking of a 1933 hearse in front of the building."

"A lot of us are old and don't feel very good and that hearse didn't make us feel any better," she said.

Eric "Big Daddy" Nord says: "Think of the good that could be brought with bongo drums pounding out a message of peace. But, people are afraid of bongos. The sound of bongos would be better than the beep-beep-beep of interstellar hardware."

Aug. 28, 1959, Comics

"In the silent room, Tony's whispered words hang like wisps of smoke…"

Aug. 28, 1959, Wide Head

Above, if the headline doesn't fit, just run it out into the gutters. Nobody will notice. 

Aug. 29, 1959, Wide Head

And what the headline would be if it squared off with the type, as it's supposed to. Nice work, guys.

Aug. 28, 1959, Hedda Hopper, Strategic Air Command

The Air Force does a "meet and greet" with Hedda Hopper and Joan Crawford.

Hopper summarizes the Cold War mentality perfectly: "The Soviet Union controls one-third of the people of the world and one-fourth of its geography, and their sworn goal is the conquest of America. Never before in history has a peaceful nation been prepared to go to war within 15 minutes."

Aug. 28, 1959, Hearst
By 1962, Hearst will fold the morning Examiner into the Herald-Express to create the Herald Examiner. 		Aug. 28, 1959, Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht's play "Winkleberg" "is a monotonous series of uninteresting incidents which serve as an opportunity to recite his wares and expound his dreary philosophy."

Directed by Patrick MacNee!

Aug. 28, 1959, Sports

The last-place Phillies take a double-header from the first-place Giants!
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