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Above, a Technicolor lithograph, entitled “Aim To Please,” starring Playboy model Mariyln Hanold looking for something to kill with her longbow and quiver of arrows. Does she look familiar? Possibly it’s because we featured her before, from a similar looking woodland session. This is dated 1959 and comes from Corp. A. Fox.
Above, an unidentified model poses for an autumnal Technicolor print entitled “Woodland Nymph.” Though this could actually be a drought somewhere rather than autumn, we’re going with planetary tilt as the reason the normally secretive nymph has lost her cover of leaves and flowers. Recognize the model? Drop us a line if you do. As a hint, the copyright on this is 1959.
Update: Marcos comes to the rescue again, and informs us: The woman in this picture is American actress and model Marilyn Hanold. She appeared in some films and TV shows throughout the 50’s and 60’s. She was also Playboy‘s Playmate of the Month in June 1959 and the model who posed for Gil Elvgren’s iconic pin-up painting “Riding High.”
Bulgarian dissident Giorgi Markov is assassinated in a scene right out of a spy novel. As he’s waiting at a bus stop near Waterloo Bridge in London, he’s jabbed in the calf with an umbrella. The man holding the umbrella apologizes and walks away, but he is in reality a Bulgarian hired killer who has just injected a ricin pellet into Markov, who develops a high fever and dies three days later.
Polish-born anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies September 12, and Czolgosz is later executed.
The Neutrality Acts, which had been passed in the 1930s when the United States considered foreign conflicts undesirable, prompts the nation to declare neutrality in World War II. The policy ended with the Lend-Lease Act of March 1941, which allowed the U.S. to sell, lend or give war materials to allied nations.
During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, a paramilitary group calling itself Black September takes members of the Israeli olympic team hostage. Eventually the group, which represents the first glimpse of terrorists for most people in the Western world, kill eleven of the hostages along with one West German police officer during a rescue attempt by West German police that devolves into a firefight. Five of the eight members of Black September are also killed.
The governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, mobilizes the National Guard to prevent nine African-American students known as the Little Rock Nine from enrolling in high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
