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Commerce Through A Looking Glass | December 1972

In the early days of giveaways the pocket mirror was a handy means of promoting a product: the advertisement was on one side, the customer on the other Read >>

Our Brothers’ Keepers | December 1972

In a society grown steadily more affluent over two centuries, the existence of the poor has raised some baffling questions and surprising answers Read >>

The Capital Of Capitalism | December 1972

Ever since 1792, bulls and bears together have tripped the light fantastic on Wall Street’s sidewalks—and sometimes just tripped Read >>

A Twenties Constellation | December 1972

Stars of the era still glow brightly in portraits by photographer James Abbe Read >>

“Better For Us To Be Separated” | December 1972

For some men the only solution to the dilemma of blacks and whites together was for the blacks to go back where they came from Read >>

Bringing Up Baby | December 1972

Childhood’s Lost World | December 1972

Magic Hours | December 1972

Little Citizens, North And South | December 1972

Country Joys | December 1972

City Scenarios | December 1972

Solitary Moments | December 1972

Juvenile Troubles | December 1972

A Mere Woman | December 1972

A shy Yankee named Hannah Adams never thought of herself as liberated, but she was our first professional female writer. Read >>

Postscripts To History | February 1972

The P.o.w. Issue | February 1972

Historians At Odds | February 1972

Contest Winners | February 1972

Of Birds And Bees | February 1972

Rare Portraits | February 1972

The Drought And The Dole | February 1972

Letter From The Editor | February 1972

The Carpenter-architects Of Key West | February 1972

The Good Provider | February 1972

“57 VARIETIES” WAS ONLY A SALES SLOGAN, BUT H. J. HEINZ UNDERSTOOD FROM THE START THAT THERE WAS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR HONEST PRODUCTS AND WELL-TREATED WORKERS Read >>

The Empire Of Heinz | February 1972

57 Ways To Keep The Workers Happy | February 1972

Pictorial mementos of Father Heinz’s brand of paternalism Read >>

A Michigan Boyhood | February 1972

A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP Read >>

The Square Dancing Master | February 1972

Henry Ford bought a $75,000 Stradivarius, learned to play “Turkey in the Straw,” and tried to teach all those Model T riders how to do-si-do like Grandpa Read >>

The Spies Who Went Out In The Cold | February 1972

Rosa Parks Wouldn’t Budge | February 1972

When one weary woman refused to be harassed out of her seat in the bus, the whole shaky edifice of Jim Crow began to totter Read >>