#newspaper clippings

[probablymoons]

"If It's Sex You're Looking For..." Designed by Judith Johnson for Hallmark, 1971. Archived from The Peculiar Manicule.

#If It's Sex You're Looking For... #ask to tag #probablyrambles #id in alt text #hallmark thoughfulness library #70s design #Day Glo #newspaper clippings #judith johnson #the peculiar manicule #archive #1971 #love #valentines

[png-magician]

#png #pngs #newspaper clippings #newspaper #baby?

[iveseenitinmovies]

this is your reminder to stay hydrated!

#the incomparable katharine hepburn! #katharine hepburn #newspaper #newspaper clippings #old hollywood #film #b&w #cinema #aesthetic #stay hydrated #drink water #katherine hepburn

[emersonarchive]

Michael Emerson in a newspaper article while earning his Master in Fine Arts degree at the University of Alabama's Professional Actor Training Program. He and other students entertained at the Will's Guild supper (circa 1993-1995)

#Michael Emerson #1993 #1994 #1995 #newspaper #newspaper clippings #Master in Fine Arts degree #actor #acting #emerson archive #newspaper article #before the fame

[everydaym0nstrosity]

Vintage Drive in & Newspaper adverts for Peopletoys (1974) as well as under its alternate titles Devil Times Five, The Horrible House on The Hill, in addition to an even more rare title 5 OClock Killers. Also featuring The Night God Screamed (1971), Snuff (1976), Sleuth (1972), Kid Blue (1973), Arnold (1973), Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969), Scorpio (1973), Jeremy (1973), Cops And Robbers (1973), The Babysitter (1969), The Teacher (1974), The Stepmother (1972), as well as lastly, William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973).

#vintage #drive in theater #newspaper clippings #cult horror #grindhouse #horror movies #70s movies #cult film #devil times five #drive in movies #the horrible house on the hill #peopletoys #70s horror #american cinema #retro #the exorcist #sleuth #butch cassidy and the sundance kid #exploitation film #cult cinema #cops and robbers #the night god screamed #arnold 1973 #scorpio #kid blue #cult classic #art #horror #1970s #slasher

[get-back-homeward]

By macabre coincidence an event that took place around Bristol marks a major turning point in the story of pop music. Eddie Cochran died hours after appearing at the Bristol Hippodrome in 1960, as part of the Larry Parnes-produced Anglo-American rock ’n’ roll package tour. Two of the people who shared a stage with Cochran that night were Tony Sheridan and a Liverpudlian singer called Johnny Gentle. Both were under contract to Parnes and both would play a significant role in the history of the most influential British act of all time, the Beatles. Sheridan, the first British rock ’n’ roller to sing and play his own guitar live on British TV, would become best known for the recordings he made in Hamburg with the Beatles shortly before they found fame.

Parnes was the first manager in Britain to become as famous as his artists – the Simon Cowell of his day – with a stable of singers including Tommy Steele, Britain’s first real rock ’n’ roll star, Marty Wilde, Billy Fury, Vince Eager and others. He was also homosexual, a dangerous thing to be at a time when gay men were routinely arrested, fined or even imprisoned.

Their tour was due to take a break after a week of shows in Bristol, and Cochran and co-headliner Gene Vincent wanted to get home to America. Cochran was in a hurry to get to London, where he was going to meet up with Vince Eager before the pair flew to the States together, and Cochran and Vincent rented a private hire taxi, driven by George Martin from Hartcliffe, to take them. Shortly after 11pm on 16 April 1960, their car set off from Bristol’s Royal Hotel (now the Bristol Marriott Royal, on College Green) for London Airport.

Sadly, none of the passengers would make their flight. Less than an hour out of Bristol, Martin realised he had taken a wrong turn. On Rowden Hill, a notorious accident black spot near Chippenham, he lost control and the car spun backwards, hitting a lamppost. The impact of the crash sent Cochran up into the roof of the car and forced the rear passenger side door open, throwing him onto the road. Martin and tour manager Patrick Thompkins, who were in the front of the vehicle, were able to walk away uninjured. The three passengers who had occupied the back seat – Eddie, Gene and Eddie’s girlfriend Sharon Sheeley – were lying on the grass verge. All three were rushed to Chippenham Cottage Hospital, before being transferred to St Martin’s Hospital, just outside Bath. Vincent had broken his collarbone, Sheeley was badly bruised and concussed, but Cochran was seriously injured and would not regain consciousness: he died in hospital in Bath the following day. A young police cadet, David Harman, was among those called to help clear the scene after the crash. Harman would later find fame as Dave Dee, front man of the hit group Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich.

Three weeks after Cochran’s death, Larry Parnes auditioned the Beatles to act as the backing group to his big signing, Billy Fury. They did not win that booking, but he hired them to play with Johnny Gentle on a short tour of Scotland. All of the Beatles were fans of Cochran and Vincent, and lapped up Gentle’s tales of life on the road with the two big American stars. When the 17-year-old George Harrison discovered that Gentle owned the shirt that Cochran had worn on stage in Bristol for that last show he begged the singer to give it to him.

Excerpt from Darryl W. Bullock's book The Velvet Mafia in The Bristol Magazine [x]

#the velvet mafia #1960 #eddie cochran #gene vincent #i keep forgetting gene vincent was in the car with cochran #totally missed how close this was to the scottish tour #larry parnes #scotland #johnny gentle #precedent for paul asking for little richards shirt #guess they didnt find fans wanting any piece of textile they every touched was weird if they did it lol #bug influences #may 1960 #newspaper clippings #learning gene vincent was from norfolk va and he was so rough looking they put him in leather to lean into it #cochran ends up picking up the leather pants look that spring #he'd just made a splash wearing them on brit tv #the last photo taken of cochran hes in those black leather pants #(top right) #the beatles end up getting a tailor to make pairs that look identical by spring 1961 #probably inspired by tony sheridan who had a gene vincent act #gene vincent plays at the star club with them in spring 62 #john and pete talk about him being obsessed with his knives and paul has a story of gene pulling out a gun

[02nique02]

#art #traditional art #my art #aesthetic #artist #grunge #poetry #collage #dreamcore #liminal #liminalcore #weirdcore #weird art #collage art #paper #newspaper clippings #newspaper #images #pictures

[k-wame]

wheezing at tony curtis sobbing upset bc monty clift called him a her

#montgomery clift #tony curtis #monty clift #celebs #queer #pronouns #lgbt #gossip #when actors were movie st☆rs™ #classic hollywood #old hollywood #newspaper clippings

[benoits-neckerchieves]

ah what a lovely day to destroy a load of newspapers & magazines

#muahaha tiny pictures are mine now #what am i going to use them for you say? i don’t know #daniel craig #james bond #007 #benoit blanc #knives out #newspaper clippings #collage #analog collage #analog #paper collage #collage art #handmade collage #magazine collage #moodboard #fanart #traditional art #magazine #artwork

[personinthepalace]

agency adverts for @penultimatestalematewithdeath :)

#lockwood and co spoilers #lockwood and co #lockwood and co netflix #l&co spoilers #lockwood and co 1x01 #this will be us #agency adverts #newspaper clippings #hope this is okay! #these remind me of the newspaper ads from the mbs puzzle book haha #wish the words weren't so blurry #posting in the palace #penultimatestalematewithdeath

[jerrylewis-thekid]

29-30 June 1956

#dean martin #jerry lewis #martin and lewis #29-30 June 1956 #variety magazine #newspaper clippings #my clipping

[probablymoons]

they are resting :) thought ppl might enjoy this lil cutout i made… illustration by Tove Jansson, full version here

#probablyrambles #eepy #newspaper clippings #moomin #snufkin #tove jansson #png #sleep #cozy #comet in moominland #pngs

[png-magician]

#collage #newspaper #newspaper clippings #baby?

[tellurian-in-aristasia]

The Independent 1995 03/03

This article is still available, online, in text form. However, it's incredibly interesting to see it as it was published in the newspaper in 1995.

#aristasia #aristasian #miss martindale #silly monkeys #newspaper clippings #aristasia in the news

[milopedia]

Ode to My Pocket-Book

By Joe Jot, Jr.

How fair thou art, oh, little book,

Of scented Russia leather!

With stitches fanciful and fine

To hold you well together.

But, stitches strong are useless all;

There is no strain upon thee;

The great brogan of poverty

Is very heavy on thee.

What endless room is here for bills

Of large denominations,

With checks and bonds a goodly store --

Ah, vain imaginations!

The hungriest pocket-book thou art

That ever in a highway

Was picked up by a well-fooled man,

And cast into a by-way.

Consumption settled on thy form

Till thou cannot grow thinner,

In vain you plea with open mouth

Of me a greenback dinner.

'Tis very sad thou couldst not stand

The drain upon thy system;

I never knew what dollars were

Until I wholely missed 'em.

I'm safe to say that there's more cash

Outside of thee than in thee,

I'd stake thee on some risky bet

Nor care much who would win thee!

I look at thee and nothing see --

They say you can't see nothing,

Yet here it's very palpable --

In sooth -- not very soothing.

Should some highwayman then demand,

I'd gladly give thee to him.

'Twould lead him into suicide

Or monstrously undo him.

Sad pocket-book! I feel for thee,

But not as in days sunny;

Henceforth the pocket of my vest

Will carry all my money.

~

Written by Joe Jot Jr., published in the Arizona Weekly Miner on January 14, 1876

#history #historical text #historical poems #poem #poems #poems and poetry #arizona history #Ode to My Pocket-Book #newspaper clippings

[railraptor]

Finding random newspaper clippings in old books isn't that weird, although this one surprised me, probably because I know how it ended-and the book in question was about a decade old by the time Ruffian was running. But reading this.... especially the bit about going down in turf history as a great sport spectacular....ouch

(transcribed article below the cut)

NEW YORK (AP) - Ruffian faces the supreme test of her fabulous career in a $350,000 match race against Foolish Pleasure at Belmont Park today.

The unbeaten 3-year-old filly, proclaimed by many as the greatest of her sex in turf annals, is favored to make it 11 in a row by whipping the winner of the Kentucky Derby in this battle of the sexes that has quickened the heartbeat of horse lovers.

The 1 1/4-mile sports spectacular is expected to lure a record crowd of 83,000 and go down in turf history as one of the great sports spectaculars. Post time is about 6 p.m. EDT, and the race will be nationally televised by CBS.

Ruffian, known for her effortless style of running, has been on top all the way in each of her 10 starts. That is why she has been proclaimed by some as the greatest filly of all time.

Still, because the daughter of Reviewer has raced only against her own sex, many believe she can prove her supremacy only by beating Foolish Pleasure.

It will be a stern test.

"Ruffian's tough, but we're going to test her," Leroy Jolley, trainer of Foolish Pleasure, said. "The only way to beat her is to run with her. We'll test her all right."

Since most match races have been won by the lead horse, it seems that Jacinto Vasquez, Ruffian's jockey, and Braulio Baeza, astride Foolish Pleasure, will bust out of the gate lickity split and stage a speed duel to get in front.

"I've done everything I know to make her ready," said veteran trainer Frank Whiteley Jr., after Ruffian's recent five-furlong work in :58 1/5 seconds. Clockers termed it "easy work."

Foolish Pleasure has been a come-from-behind runner this year, but "Don't forget," said Jolley, "as a 2-year-old last year when he was unbeaten, most folks thought he was just a speedball who wouldn't get the classic distances."

Foolish Pleasure's last start was in the Belmont Stakes at 1½ miles on June 7 where he lost to Avatar by a neck in 2:28 1/5. Ruffian also ran in the Coaching Club American Oaks June 21, also at 1½ miles, which she won by nearly three lengths in 2:27 4/5.

Ruffian, a Kentucky homebred owned by Stuart Janney, Jr. of Maryland, has earned $313,429 in her 10 starts. She can add $225,000 to that if she beats Foolish Pleasure. If not, she gets the loser's share of $125,000.

#ruffian #foolish pleasure #horse racing #historical horse racing #newspaper clippings