![MISS LABELED](/images/headline/6264.png) Free and easy is the basic package. I'm the VIP package and I cost a bundle. ![](/images/postimg/miss_labeled.jpg)
Above is another great paperback digest cover by Howell Dodd, this time for 1951's Free and Easy by Luther Gordon—no relation to June Wetherell's Free and Easy. Thinking about seeing a book rack with this kind of material for sale can only make you regretful to have missed out on the era. Though to be honest, you couldn't pay us to live in 1951—no offense to those who did. We love the promo art, the fiction, and the movies, but everything that has to do with real life... we wouldn't have done so well with that. So we're happy here in 2021. We'd like to own more of these old digests, but they aren't free or easy either. Our collection grows monthly, though. We have no idea to what end, but it does. But this one did not add to the clutter, because we borrowed it from online. More digests to come.
![LOFT EXPECTATIONS](/images/headline/4188.png) There's nothing quite like a roll in the hay. ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_01.jpg)
You'd think we'd eventually run out of themes in mid-century paperbacks, but the possibilities are seemingly endless. We can add illicit love in the hayloft to the many other time honored subjects exploited by paperback publishers. We've already shared several covers along these lines, such as this one, this one, and this one, but today we have an entire set for your enjoyment. Personally, we've never had sex in a hayloft—in fact, we've never even had the opportunity—but we imagine that once you get past the smelly manure and the scratchy hay and the jittery animals it's pretty fun. Or maybe not. There are also numerous books, incidentally, that feature characters trysting by outdoor haystacks, but for today we want to stay inside the barn. Thanks to all the original uploaders of these covers. ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/loft_expectations_20.jpg)
![WINK OF AN EYE](/images/headline/3333.png) The ptosis with the mostest. ![](/images/postimg/wink_of_an_eye_02.jpg)
A droopy eyelid is a condition referred to as ptosis, and illustrator Fred Rodewald uses that to great effect on this cover of Passion’s Mistress, written by Luther Gordon (a pseudonym used in this case by James Noble Gifford) for Quarter Books, 1950. Does the character pictured actually have a droopy eye? It would seem not, as both women in the story—“devastating beauty” Olive Haviland and “glamorous actress” Genevieve Gorton—are physically perfect, as only literary characters can be. So credit this quirky eye thing to Rodewald.
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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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