Highbrow---to---Lowbrow.

[Viola]

I remember Planned Parenthood references in the original Cheaper By the Dozen book of the twenties? It was a thing in some places before others, I think.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The chart appears in Life, exactly as shown in the original post, on page 100 of the April 11, 1949 issue. This link will take you to the middle of the article, entitled "Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow," and you can page back a bit to hit the chart.

As far as I know, this article in Life was the peak of the whole Classification By Brow scheme.

Planned Parenthood has been in existence since the teens, and was a very common topic of conversation in the middlebrow women's magazines of the time -- the Ladies Home Journal endorsed it as far back as the late thirties. (We had a long thread about contraceptive history in the Powder Room a while back which went into detail on this.)

 

[Senator Jack]

Good work, Lizzie. And again, whoever the writer was, he was way ahead of his time. I'd expect this sort of bit from MAD Magazine.

 

[The Wolf]

Thanks, Lizzie.
The photo I spoke of is at the beginning of the article on page 99.
I even remembered somewhat correctly.lol

Sincerely,
The Wolf

 

[vitanola]

I would have thought Pinochle would have been much lower-brow than Bridge. Besides, all the cool people played Canasta.

What about "Kings in the Corner"?

Pinochle was, at least in the Middle West, largely the game of elderly working-class folk by the 1950's, was it not?

 

[SGT Rocket]

OMG

OMG, I really am low-brow. Go figure... Really, I thought I was more cultured than that.

fftopic:

However, upon reflection, most of my relatives do still use their knuckles to keep their balance.

Always room for improvement I guess.

 

[theinterchange]

I like several others am all over this chart. I guess I'm a high-low-middle brow then.

Randy

 

[Cobden]

Middle-middle brow, really. Bit confused about the chart still - a couple of the references strike me as rather British for the time (regimental ties), others as rather American (brooks suit)