![READY FOR YOUR CLOSE-UP?](/images/headline/6904.png) Tabloid offers pills, thrills, and various painful aches. ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_01.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/ready_for_your_close-up_20.jpg)
Above: assorted pages from an issue of National Close-Up published today in 1968, with sex pills called vitogen, sexual perversion, sex parties, and sex swingers, then conversely, mass suicides, a monster baby, an acid burn victim, car crash deaths, and all that is terrible and painful in the world. Somewhere between those extremes are celebrities, including Julie Christie, Bing Crosby, Donna Marlowe again (seems she was a tabloid staple in ’68), Playboy centerfold Sue Williams (in the advertisement for strip poker cards), and, just above, the lovely June Palmer.
![CARNY KNOWLEDGE](/images/headline/357.png) Stop it! I already told you, I’m dating Larry the Living Torso. ![](/images/postimg/carny_knowledge.jpg)
If pulp teaches anything, it’s don’t mess around with a carny’s woman. If he can’t throw knives and spit fire himself, you can bet he’s got friends who can. Road Show, by German author John Haase, doesn’t get quite as eye-for-an-eye as we’d like considering the setting, but it’s a satisfying piece of pulp fiction from a well-regarded novelist whose later work became movie vehicles for the likes of Julie Christie and James Stewart. As a bonus you get a fantastic cover image from pulp stalwart Barye Phillips. We'll get to Phillips again a bit later. And remember everyone, no means no.
![JULIE, MADLY, DEEPLY](/images/headline/812.png) Waiting for her ship to come in. ![](/images/postimg/julie_madly_deeply.jpg)
Promo shot of British actress Julie Christie on the set of Darling, the classic 1965 drama set in swinging London (and partly in Capri, above) about a model trying to sleep her way to the top. Christie was born in Chabua, British India, today in 1941.
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
2003—Hope Dies
Film legend Bob Hope dies of pneumonia two months after celebrating his 100th birthday. 1945—Churchill Given the Sack
In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect
Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives. 1952—Evita Peron Dies
Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974. 1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945.
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