TRICKY LEAKS

Some publicity stunts never go out of style.

It’s happened again. A celebrity has been robbed of private photographs. Christina Aguilera claims that images comprising part of a styling session were hacked from her computer and disseminated to the public without her consent. And of course, you know what we’re going to say next—if her computer had really been hacked, where are all the other tidbits that would have been contained within? For instance, where are the other dozens of photos that surely would have been shot during this alleged styling session? How about some images from the rear? Doesn’t she want to know what these costumes look like from the one angle she can’t see with her own eyes? And where are the many other potentially valuable bytes of info, like public appearance schedules, demos of songs yet to be released, text files of sappy lyrics, personal correspondence, and embarrassing contract riders? We’d especially like to see a list of whatever pharmacopeia she consumes on a daily basis that makes her think people will buy this obvious scam. Maybe all that stuff is hiding inside the Wikileaks “nuclear option” file. We’re calling this one what it is—fake. As always, though, we’re posting the images. What can we say? We’re suckers for sequins. 

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1953—MK-ULTRA Mind Control Program Launched

In the U.S., CIA director Allen Dulles launches a program codenamed MK-ULTRA, which involves the surreptitious use of drugs such as LSD to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function. The specific goals of the program are multifold, but focus on drugging world leaders in order to discredit them, developing a truth serum, and making people highly susceptible to suggestion. All of this is top secret, and files relating to MK-ULTRA’s existence are destroyed in 1973, but the truth about the program still emerges in the mid-seventies after a congressional investigation.

1945—Franklin Roosevelt Dies

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage while sitting for a portrait in the White House. After a White House funeral on April 14, Roosevelt’s body is transported by train to his hometown of Hyde Park, New York, and on April 15 he is buried in the rose garden of the Roosevelt family home.

1916—Richard Harding Davis Dies

American journalist, playwright, and author Richard Harding Davis dies of a heart attack at home in Philadelphia. Not widely known now, Davis was one of the most important and influential war correspondents ever, establishing his reputation by reporting on the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and World War I, as well as his general travels to exotic lands.

1919—Zapata Is Killed

In Mexico, revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata is shot dead by government forces in the state of Morelos, after a carefully planned ambush. Following the killing, Zapata’s revolutionary movement and his Liberation Army of the South slowly fall apart, but his political influence lasts in Mexico to the present day.

1925—Great Gatsby Is Published

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is published in New York City by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Though Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s best known book today, it was not a success upon publication, and at the time of his death in 1940, Fitzgerald was mostly forgotten as a writer and considered himself to be a failure.

Edições de Ouro and Editora Tecnoprint published U.S. crime novels for the Brazilian market, with excellent reworked cover art to appeal to local sensibilities. We have a small collection worth seeing.
Walter Popp cover art for Richard Powell's 1954 crime novel Say It with Bullets.
There have been some serious injuries on pulp covers. This one is probably the most severe—at least in our imagination. It was painted for Stanley Morton's 1952 novel Yankee Trader.

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