Junior Miss #28

The cover of this 1948 humor gem says it all: a red-haired young woman in a bold checkered jacket gives her date, Chuck Rivers, a thoroughly exasperated earful — because his promised "50-yard line seats" for the big game turn out to be somewhere in the stratosphere, with clouds swirling all around their impossibly high bleacher bench. A frantic vendor below hollers about parachutes and oxygen masks, which pretty much sums up the delightful absurdity that made Junior Miss such a charming slice of postwar teen comedy.