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  1. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Isn't "blind sexpot" basically a description of Marilyn Monroe's character in How to Marry a Millionaire? Personally, I've always liked a gal in glasses.
  2. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    If I were debutante Miss Helen Stedman, I don't know how I'd feel about my photo running below that headline!
  3. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Boy would he be horrified by mass "Merry Christmas" text messages!
  4. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    I keep imagining Rosen accidentally breaking his own window and then whipping up this exciting tale to tell his insurance company.
  5. David Conwill

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    You'd love the one I bought in college. It hangs in my oldest's room now.
  6. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    "Businessmen" in quotes just makes me think of mobsters. I wonder if they got to see the somewhat anticlimactic fate of the Graff Spee. I give it five, six years, tops.
  7. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    So we shouldn't expect to see Warren Beatty in a Dan Dunn movie anytime soon? More's the pity.
  8. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    I got so confused between Dan Dunn and Dick Tracy, I couldn't figure out how guys were waiting to ambush him when he was still in the air relying on Irwin's instrument calibrations.
  9. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Funny how common decency and good manners were ubiquitous in the past but have never been in the present, no matter what era that present happens to be.
  10. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    He wasn't a youth pastor, was he?
  11. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Boy, I'd rather like to see that!
  12. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    I was momentarily excited to imagine what a 1939 version of Fast and Furious might look like… Same!
  13. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    I assume his replacement will have the built-in two-way radio!
  14. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Let's say I'm not bringing in 5,000 1939 dollars per year.
  15. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Interestingly, Mr. Newhouse eventually bought the Staten Island Advance which was the foundation for Advance Publications. Advance, in turn, owns American City Business Journals (among others, including Conde Nast, Discovery Channel, and a big chunk of Reddit), which owns my employer Hemmings...
  16. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    I tried and didn't find much except similar reporting to what we see here. Based on what she told the press immediately after the killing, I hope she got off with the lightest possible repercussions.
  17. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    All I can imagine is the scene in North by Northwest when they pour Roger Thornhill full of bourbon against his will...
  18. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    This seems like it could be a slight both to Manhattan and Brooklyn!
  19. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Was it? I feel like religion started butting into everyday life in the late '70s/early '80s and that before that most non-rural Americans kept their churchiness to Sunday.
  20. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Why would you name your eyeglass frames after a demon?? But yes, appropriate name for the expression!

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