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This page contains a short story by Arthur L. Lippmans and an advertisement for Hinds Cream (a shaving product). **The Story**: A boxing manager describes training his fighter using intellectual challenges instead of traditional boxing drills. During fights, the opponent is asked literary trivia questions (Paradise Lost, Shakespeare, geography) while fighting. This satirizes the 1920s cultural obsession with appearing "intellectual"—the manager has moved his boxer's training to Columbia University library. The joke is that despite this absurd intellectual approach, the fighter still wins through basic boxing skill. **The Advertisement**: Frames Hinds Cream as an "after-shave" product (apparently novel at the time) by presenting a humorous domestic scenario: a wife catches her husband shaving, suggesting wives should buy their husbands the cream to prevent theft—joking that men steal their wives' bottles. The ad emphasizes softness and soothing relief for shaved skin. **Context**: This reflects 1920s preoccupations with intellectual culture and emerging consumer products marketed through domestic humor.

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. ¥OHN HELD JR__ but I don’t complain, for habits has changed in this game since it * got intellectual. “On the night of the fight Hen- derson comes out like a_ tiger. Snodgrass steps into a clinch and asks him ‘Who wrote Paradise Lost?’ Kid Henderson tries for a left hook and says ‘Shake- speare.’ ‘Wrong,’ answers Snod- grass, leading with his right. Be- fore Henderson gets himself set the Harvard kid lands an upper- cut and asks him, ‘Name two islands off the coast of Africa?’ ‘Long Island and Coney Island,’ answers Henderson, ducking. laughs and when he ‘+k to his corner, instead | of sousing him with water, I / | hands him this here book and my i meal ticket reads some more ques- tions. “When the bell rings for the second round Henderson lands a ‘ 7 . : ‘ light I + boy’s stomact Heroine, apparently brushing hair, peers sidelong into the mirror, and horrors! Hgav: punch on my: boy's stomach catches consort in the very act! Wisps of soap at his temples indicate that he and asks Snodgrass ‘What is a has just shaved; a bright glow about the rugged chin reveals that he is about i ‘ cen-line ” tosoothe the razor-scrape with cooling Hinds. A shrill battle ensues, resulting sonnet A fourtec n-line pome; in a score of 0 to 0 at the end of the game—and a separate and distinct bottle says my Mental Giant, landing a of Hinds for each of the contestants. sharp one on Hendy’s ribs. I could see Henderson _ getting % pa ee by) e e 29 weaker all the time. Then Snod- Ww qv ee ee ill Be hat’s hers is mine? line of the pome: ‘Of all sad | words of tongue or pen oe So says the gentleman thief in hundreds of respectable Henderson gives him the wrong famili . A : answer and when the fight reaches amilies. Cautious wives have actually begun to hide the eighth round Snodgrass has a their bottles of Hinds Cream. For menarediscoveringthat score of eighty-five per cent and here at last is a real after-shave! The softest,smoothest, Henderson is a bad second thi lief f h = t with fifty-two. ‘Kayo him, wise soothiest relief for shave-worn skins you ever knew! boy,’ I yells and my man lands If you haven’t already discovered Hinds Cream for with a sharp right to Henderson’s : : oe ves i chin and the ignorance goes ‘out your shaving tool-kit, snitch it from your wife if you ! like a light. must. But better play safe and send for this sample henge Suodgres and ghakes bottle to try. With it will come a non-theft device that aed hands ‘over’ the check that will keep your Hinds beside your soap and razor! night. I got the new champ training now up in the library of Made by A. S. HINDS CO., a division of Lehn & Fink Products Company Columbia University and if I ean | find an opponent smart enough for e him we'll put on a bout next sum- | A. word to the wives: | mer at Carnegie Hall. I tell yuh Prevent thievery—buy your hus- this here now fight game ain't band a bottle of Hinds Cream for that i se; ‘ g 4 his own. Show him how to pat ii — | what it used to be. Not by a Bis oe ee a mae Honey & Almond long shot.” ——-AktHGR I, TABPWARS until the fingers begin to cling. CR E : AY | \LA UGE Ou The man below, one Lester Field, Of disappointment died; One day he smoked a Chester- field And wasn’t Satisfied. ad WWM LUT bmn K yg, earls ge pays $5 10F €OCH One pring tbl comicbooks.com ,