Above, a rare cover for 1953’s Doctors Are Different, one of Dorothy Pierce Walker’s several medical romances, a collection that includes She Married a Doctor, Kate Fuller M.D., Woman Doctor and Five O’clock Surgeon. The art is by Canadian pulp illustrator Norm Eastman, who was famous for his Nazi-themed men’s magazine covers. We’ll have more on him later.
1933—Franklin Roosevelt Survives Assassination Attempt
In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to shoot President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but is restrained by a crowd and, in the course of firing five wild shots, hits five people, including Chicago, Illinois Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds three weeks later. Zangara is quickly tried and sentenced to eighty years in jail for attempted murder, but is later convicted of murder when Cermak dies. Zangara is sentenced to death and executed in Florida’s electric chair.