tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160223532207347025.post6223189111395189870..comments2024-02-28T23:35:56.193-05:00Comments on The Curious Reader: Goodbye Old Pal...My Old PalGradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17526750467742207099noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160223532207347025.post-21064984894545921002012-11-05T16:28:19.807-05:002012-11-05T16:28:19.807-05:00Vintage, I also have a few old copies of Look and ...Vintage, I also have a few old copies of Look and Life. Apparently cancelling my subscription is the eventual death knell, although it usually takes decades! Gradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17526750467742207099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160223532207347025.post-52417354252977812452012-11-02T23:36:58.710-04:002012-11-02T23:36:58.710-04:00Always sad when a literary publication goes down. ...Always sad when a literary publication goes down. Like what you said about Flannery O'Connor.Vintage Readinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05971819409379613967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160223532207347025.post-8349580356152417502012-10-26T20:25:56.875-04:002012-10-26T20:25:56.875-04:00Litlove, I have at least 3 more from '65, and ...Litlove, I have at least 3 more from '65, and a Life magazine as well. I must sound like an awful pack rat, but I'm not really. I'm just someone with 3 large trunks. They are fun to look at. One of the Newsweek issues is dated May 31, 1965 and I was shocked to see yet another glowing review of Everything That Rises Must Converge. I wonder if someone just forgot they'd already done a review when it was time for the December 27 issue, since there's one in that issue as well. Odd, I thought. But maybe the book editor was just a crazy fanatic over Flannery O'Connor (there are some of us walking around, you know...seemingly normal to the naked eye.)Gradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17526750467742207099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160223532207347025.post-23323234059538420502012-10-26T12:40:27.725-04:002012-10-26T12:40:27.725-04:00What an amazing slice of history that magazine pro...What an amazing slice of history that magazine provided! The pictures are wonderful, and like Stefanie, I thought the healthcare predictions were delightfully barmy. But it's things like the moon landing, and the death of Somerset Maugham that seem the most poignant and powerful markers of time passing to me. What a collection to treasure, Grad, if you have more where that one came from.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160223532207347025.post-4918398021453885772012-10-23T12:25:55.346-04:002012-10-23T12:25:55.346-04:00Stefanie, the menu from my first trans-Atlantic fl...Stefanie, the menu from my first trans-Atlantic flight on Pan Am was written in French on beautiful high quality paper and embellished with watercolor images. And I went coach! I still have the beautiful menu, which I have always meant to have framed like the work of art it is. It makes one wonder whether time equals progressGradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17526750467742207099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160223532207347025.post-82673079064154158052012-10-23T12:12:35.519-04:002012-10-23T12:12:35.519-04:00How fun to have found some old Newsweek's to h...How fun to have found some old Newsweek's to honor the occasion of the magazine no longer being published in print! What a trip down memory lane. Robot nurses cracked me up. I remember my first airplane trip in the mid-70s, air travel was still glamorous and my mom made us all dress up. I think of what I wear on a plane these days and it just cracks me up.Stefaniehttp://somanybooksblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160223532207347025.post-49993866578868015912012-10-20T17:31:01.945-04:002012-10-20T17:31:01.945-04:00Arti, it is a little like a time capsule. And, no...Arti, it is a little like a time capsule. And, no, I had no idea that Newsweek would someday come to an end in printed form, although had I thought about it, it probably made sense..like Look and Life magazines. It was totally an unplanned acquisition. They weren't taking up much space, were in a trunk I seldom rifle through, so there they sat all these decades. Maybe one of my children will want them when I'm in that great Gemini capsule in the sky.<br />Gradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17526750467742207099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160223532207347025.post-21547678282499441662012-10-20T11:27:36.464-04:002012-10-20T11:27:36.464-04:00These are priceless now, what an amazing keepsake ...These are priceless now, what an amazing keepsake and collection, albeit you didn't have any idea at that time that Newsweek would come to an end in printed form. Not too long ago the New York Times had hinted an online only version. It does feel like the passing of an era. And Sydney Poitier... I saw his To Sir With Love in the theatre. That was before I moved here to Canada, and only a child then. Watched A Patch of Blue later on TV. Flipping through this old Newsweek must feel like time travelling, and, what a priceless vehicle!Artihttp://rippleeffects.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160223532207347025.post-91698357153153614882012-10-20T10:05:27.336-04:002012-10-20T10:05:27.336-04:00Tinky, forgot to add your name, but of course the ...Tinky, forgot to add your name, but of course the comment above was to you, my friend.Gradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17526750467742207099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160223532207347025.post-76903964381059019232012-10-20T09:44:50.262-04:002012-10-20T09:44:50.262-04:00Somehow a few issues of Newsweek and a couple of U...Somehow a few issues of Newsweek and a couple of U.S. News & World Report were in the trunk I used when I went away to study in Ireland. It holds stuff from my childhood now, mementos and things that hold no value to anyone but me. The two magazines I loved when I was a teenager were Newsweek and Glamour! The Glamour saved me from being a complete nerd.Gradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17526750467742207099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160223532207347025.post-15963196276596163402012-10-20T09:12:18.436-04:002012-10-20T09:12:18.436-04:00You're making me wish I had kept all my old ma...You're making me wish I had kept all my old magazines, just for the pleasure of reading the culture of the day in them! A lovely eulogy, Grad. I'd particularly like to see those Gucci outfits for the flight crews.Tinkyhttp://www.ourgrandmotherskitchens.comnoreply@blogger.com