SHAW LOOKS GOOD

That gleam in her eye is because she was really naked.

She wasn’t naked, but British actress Susan Shaw makes good use of classic nude suggestion in this lovely photo, which is undated but probably from around 1950. It’s amazing what bare shoulders can achieve, right? There are a couple of other famous Susan Shaws from the era, including the well remembered glamour model in this post, but don’t mix them up, even if our keywords will. The Susan Shaw above made a necessary name change from Patricia Sloots, then carved out a nice show business career starting at age seventeen, eventually accumulating more than thirty film credits. Some of her movies that might be up our alley include To the Public Danger, Five Angles on Murder, and Blonde Blackmailer, but the one we really want to watch is—and, yes, we know it’ll be bad—Fire Maidens of Outer Space. Why do we sign up for such punishment? So you don’t have to.

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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.

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Giovanni Benvenuti was one of Italy's most prolific paperback cover artists. His unique style is on display in multiple collections within our website.

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