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Life — December 2, 1920 — page 71: Life, 1920-12-02

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This page is primarily **advertising**, dominated by a Tiffany & Co. jewelry advertisement. The left column continues a serialized story titled "Am I Psychic or Am I Not?"—a first-person narrative about the author claiming psychic abilities after visualizing a mysterious telephone caller before hearing his voice. The story contains **period social satire**: the narrator describes "visualizing" an English social secretary as a small, narrow-shouldered man with prominent teeth and large ears. The description mocks English physical features and mannerisms in ways typical of early 20th-century Anglo-American humor. The remaining content consists of **vintage advertisements** (Hays Superseam Gloves, Commercial Travelers Magazine, a Purity Cross Corned Beef Hash ad, and University of Chicago correspondence courses) and an A.A. Milne book review—representative of *Life*'s mixed editorial-advertising format of that era. No political cartoons appear on this page.

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