Life, 1927-11-17 · page 35 of 48
Life — November 17, 1927 — page 35: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three satirical items from Life magazine: **"The Bicycle Menace"** presents an anti-Semitic joke from Berlin where two ex-officers blame Jews for WWI, and a Jewish passenger interjects that bicyclists were responsible—deflecting blame absurdly. The satire appears to mock prejudiced scapegoating. **"After the Championship Fight, 1977"** references boxer Gene Tunney's 1927 million-dollar purse, predicting that by 1977, boxers will earn so much that "dead men tell no tales" becomes relevant—apparently satirizing wage inflation and suggesting boxers might literally die in the ring for such money. **The pedestrian cartoon** shows someone claiming that spiritualists contact dead mediums, playing on confusion between spiritualism and mediums themselves. The page is primarily filler material—advertisements for *Life*'s upcoming tropical and Christmas issues, plus a Bachrach portrait photography studio ad. The content relies on period-specific references (1920s boxing economics, spiritualism fads) that require historical context for modern readers.
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The Bicycle Menace Here is a German-Jewish story from Berlin. ‘Two ex-officers were sitting in a train talkin, out the war. One said to the A Jew sitting opp. this remark, interjected, Well! Why the Jews?” swer.—Tit-Bits (London). was the an- After the Championship Fight, 1977 “Yrs, it shows there’s something wrong all few minutes in the ring. k in 1927, when a boxer is Titers. called Tunney only got $1,000,000 for the : Cees Heavowelaht Chal tpad: DEAD MEN TELL No TALES eg mship of the World."—Dublin Opi " A rromixest American predicts that Pedestrian: ov, ¥-vES THEY bo, TO —TO S-SPIRIT M-MEDIUMS, REMEMBER London Opinion Bric-a-Brac Larne things that no one Little things to Little lan Little s, woven out, Little wreaths of gilded grass, brigs of whittled oak painfully in glass s, done in beads, re made by lonely folk. folk have lines of days uquets, a pin, Little maps of pinkish lands, Little charts of curly seas, Little plats of linen strands, Little verse Dorothy Parker, in The tsookman such as these getable Oils is a public ures like v “How much,” we su Is Paris t market where “artists sell pi re asks, “how much for about a pound and in a few years Prohibition will be a dead letter, Aty it is still more or less openly pract Is poker, it’s always darkest just: be- a half of that fresh land Punch. fore you've drawn.— d Chaparral, Detroit Nevws. Live is _prblis Great Britain, ( F Office. sly in the United States, ms. Title registe in U.S. Additional pos! . $1.60 a year; to Canada, 8 read Life regularly EVERY week! | Next Week— the TROPICAL NUMBER cover by JOHN LAGATTA—double- pagecartoon by WALLACE MORGAN. And then— the CHRISTMAS NUMBER cover by MCCLELLAND BARCLAY, andeighty pages of glorious goodcheer by MILT GROSS, HENRY RALEIGH, GRANTLAND RICE, GLUY< f LIAMS, JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG, ROBERT BENCHLEY, CHARLES DANA GIBSON, BAIRD LEONARD, TOM MIX, RUSSELL PATTERSON, DOROTHY PARKER and many, many others. read Life regularly ~ EVERY week! | House, MEN'S PORTRAITS BECAUSE THE ANNOYING FUSS—THE UNNATURAL- NESS OF A SITTING-HAS BEEN ELIMINATED BY BACHRACH, LEADERS IN POLITICS, THE BUSINESS WORLD AND THE PROFESSIONS HAVE PREFERRED OUR STUDIOS FOR HALF A CENTURY. TELEPHONE FOR A SITTING BEFORE THE RUSH OF CHRISTMAS BUSINESS | Bachrach PHOTOGRAPHS OF DISTINCTION S07 FIFTH AVENUE VANDERBILT 7400 ‘comicbooks.com