Intl. Notebook, Sex Files

December 26 2024

DULY INFORMED

Informer readers could have gone without knowing any of it. But once they knew we bet they never forgot.

This front page of National Informer published today in 1971 may look a little washed out, but its interior content is as colorful as always. Did Informer readers know enough about adultery? Certainly not. Do they know why breasts make men go wild? No, but they soon did. Did they know sex hungry females hunt married guys? Did they know which part of the U.S. had the most seduceable girls? National Informer existed to satirically broaden knowledge and brighten horizons. As long as you didn’t really believe any of it you were fine.

As always, we need to touch upon the predictions of Informer psychic Mark Travis. In this issue he seems to predict cellphones when he says, “People taking on the phone will be able to see each other’s faces on a small screen as they talk,” which is nice, but Star Trek also predicted cellphones years earlier with their planetary communicators, and Nikola Tesla beat everyone by half a century when he imagined them too. But we’ll give Travis a little credit anyway.

We love National Informer. Our aliases—BB and PSGP—come from there. That’s Black Bomber and PSG Pumpometer. We probably don’t have to explain what those are. We also probably don’t need to explain why we upload tabloids. With their focus on secrets, scandal, celebrity, sensationalism, and sex they express a clutch of core pulp literature vales. Informer is more focused on sex than, say, Confidential, but they’re all in the same family. We have a tabloid index here where you can access hundreds. As a time killer, you can’t beat it.

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HISTORY REWIND

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

January 17

1950—The Great Brinks Robbery Occurs

In the U.S., eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company’s offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The skillful execution of the crime, with only a bare minimum of clues left at the scene, results in the robbery being billed as “the crime of the century.” Despite this, all the members of the gang are later arrested.

January 17

1977—Gary Gilmore Is Executed

Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on Capital punishment in the United States. Gilmore’s story is later turned into a 1979 novel entitled The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer, and the book wins the Pulitzer Prize for literature.

January 16

1942—Carole Lombard Dies in Plane Crash

American actress Carole Lombard, who was the highest paid star in Hollywood during the late 1930s, dies in the crash of TWA Flight 3, on which she was flying from Las Vegas to Los Angeles after headlining a war bond rally in support of America’s military efforts. She was thirty-three years old.

January 15

1919—Luxemburg and Liebknecht Are Killed

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps. Freikorps was a term applied to various paramilitary organizations that sprang up around Germany as soldiers returned in defeat from World War I. Members of these groups would later become prominent members of the SS.

January 14

1967—Summer of Love Begins

The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park with between 20,000 to 30,000 people in attendance, their purpose being to promote their ideals of personal empowerment, cultural and political decentralization, communal living, ecological preservation, and higher consciousness. The event is considered the beginning of the famed counterculture Summer of Love.