Centerfold Curiosity 02: March 1956, Marian Stafford

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Ms Stafford's pictorial shows a playful scene of her ripping apart an issue of TV Guide featuring stars Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows of "The Honeymooners", perhaps as a critique of the show, as a critique of Television, or as an invitation to do something different to watching TV. The small, modern bookcase holds Winston S. Churchill's book series "The Second World War", and Professor Howard C McElroy's tome "Modern Philosophers: Western Thought Since Kant"... After ponderous reading, perhaps a light TV comedy would do, and luckily, the host has another copy of the TV Guide at hand!

"The Honeymooners" was an American television comedy that aired from 1955 to 1956, created by and starring Jackie Gleason, and based on a recurring comedy sketch of the same name that had been part of Gleason's variety show. It follows the lives of New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden (Gleason), his wife Alice (Audrey Meadows), and a neighbouring couple, Ralph's best friend Ed Norton (Art Carney) and Ed's wife Trixie (Joyce Randolph), in their daily living and aspirational misadventures. The influential sitcom made famous many tropes that came from films and radio and have survived the golden age of television, including the rambunctious and scheming everyman, the portly husband married to a thinner and more beautiful wife, who endures him and has a deadpan humour, with a dose of violent threats and tenderness. Of course, the famous animated show "The Flintstones" is a more or less direct play on this.

"TV Guide" was an American biweekly magazine that provided television program listings and television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and other entertainment. The magazine began its first iteration in the late 1940s and became a staple in American households. While it peaked in circulation during the 1970s, it has suffered like many periodicals during the Internet era. In the last decade, it has also had a significant overhaul as program listings have become less relevant for streaming audiences and fragmented markets.

Winston S. Churchill's "The Second World War", a personal and historical account covering the period from the end of the First World War to July 1945, compiled from the British stateman's notes with the help of assistants and access to official documents, and it is unique as he was the only national leader of the war to publish his recollections. The series remains influential, yet controversial, as much for its narrative and omissions; its publication contributed to him being awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature.

There is also a 1950 edition of Howard C McElroy's "Modern Philosophers: Western Thought since Kant". The copy of its advertisement published on the journal "Philosophy and Phenomenological Research" (Vol. 11, No. 2), read: We are proud to present this distinguished new volume in philosophy. It represents a comprehensive and understandable presentation of the conclusions of modern philosophy in light of contemporary and universal significance problems. In four general approaches, the author discusses Hegel and his successors, the philosophers of science, the modern Aristotelians and the Anti-Intellectuals. From Kant and Hegel to Dewey and Schweitzer, Dr. McElroy provides concise yet thorough discussions of the significant contributions of twenty-four modem thinkers to the matrix of present-day thought. The book is written in a vigorous and stimulating style." A 1954 review published in the "Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger" indicated that Mr. McElroy was a graduate of Wesleyan University and professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Miss March 1956, Marian Stafford Ms Stafford's pictorial shows a playful scene of her ripping apart an issue of TV Guide featuring stars Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows of "The Honeymooners", perhaps as a critique of the show, as a critique of Television, or as an invitation to do something different to watching TV. The small, modern bookcase holds Winston S. Churchill's book series "The Second World War", and Professor Howard C McElroy's tome "Modern Philosophers: Western Thought Since Kant"... After ponderous reading, perhaps a light TV comedy would do, and luckily, the host has another copy of the TV Guide at hand!

"The Honeymooners" was an American television comedy that aired from 1955 to 1956, created by and starring Jackie Gleason, and based on a recurring comedy sketch of the same name that had been part of Gleason's variety show. It follows the lives of New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden (Gleason), his wife Alice (Audrey Meadows), and a neighbouring couple, Ralph's best friend Ed Norton (Art Carney) and Ed's wife Trixie (Joyce Randolph), in their daily living and aspirational misadventures. The influential sitcom made famous many tropes that came from films and radio and have survived the golden age of television, including the rambunctious and scheming everyman, the portly husband married to a thinner and more beautiful wife, who endures him and has a deadpan humour, with a dose of violent threats and tenderness. Of course, the famous animated show "The Flintstones" is a more or less direct play on this.

"TV Guide" was an American biweekly magazine that provided television program listings and television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and other entertainment. The magazine began its first iteration in the late 1940s and became a staple in American households. While it peaked in circulation during the 1970s, it has suffered like many periodicals during the Internet era. In the last decade, it has also had a significant overhaul as program listings have become less relevant for streaming audiences and fragmented markets.

Winston S. Churchill's "The Second World War", a personal and historical account covering the period from the end of the First World War to July 1945, compiled from the British stateman's notes with the help of assistants and access to official documents, and it is unique as he was the only national leader of the war to publish his recollections. The series remains influential, yet controversial, as much for its narrative and omissions; its publication contributed to him being awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature.

There is also a 1950 edition of Howard C McElroy's "Modern Philosophers: Western Thought since Kant". The copy of its advertisement published on the journal "Philosophy and Phenomenological Research" (Vol. 11, No. 2), read: We are proud to present this distinguished new volume in philosophy. It represents a comprehensive and understandable presentation of the conclusions of modern philosophy in light of contemporary and universal significance problems. In four general approaches, the author discusses Hegel and his successors, the philosophers of science, the modern Aristotelians and the Anti-Intellectuals. From Kant and Hegel to Dewey and Schweitzer, Dr. McElroy provides concise yet thorough discussions of the significant contributions of twenty-four modem thinkers to the matrix of present-day thought. The book is written in a vigorous and stimulating style." A 1954 review published in the "Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger" indicated that Mr. McElroy was a graduate of Wesleyan University and professor at the University of Pittsburgh.