"Stop criticizing America!"
As if to drive home the point, the inside cover of that issue held this message from President Dwight D. Eisenhower: that Capitalism was the "economic support of every human right [Americans] possessed."
A year later, the editors of Coronet seem to have abandoned such lofty ambitions. There's not even a New Year's theme on the cover of the January 1951 issue. Inside, and only on the second-to-last page, is the one reference to anything New Year's Resolution-ish: a directive, illustrated by regular Coronet contributor Douglas Gorsline, to put back that second (or third?) helping of mashed potatoes. But hey, that's pretty good advice too!
Happy New Year!
2 comments:
"Don't criticize America?!?"
The more things change, the more they change the same. Ugh. I was alternately horrified and stupefied and I tried to smile -- but couldn't.
Thanks for this posting.
I'm always amazed as I scan these old articles, Mike, how relevant so many of them are today. Often you just need to substitute "al-Qaeda" for"Russia". The more things change, indeed. C'est la vie! ;-)
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