Paul C. Burns’s Ladies Home Journal Illustration

As a birthday gift to myself, I am Thelma-and-Louise-ing with our head Acquisitions Editor up to Poughkeepsie New York for the monster book sale this Friday. 100,000 books. I had originally asked him to buy all ten years of Ladies Home Journal from 1940-1950 if he should come across it. But then I realized he won’t be able to carry all of it by himself. Also, there’s all the ultra fundie Christian marriage books I will purchase en bloc. There’s also Vilhelm Hammershoi Danish Painter of Stillness and Light which, being that this is my birthday, is still available, as a public announcement for all my online fans.

I love all the art in Ladies Home Journal in the 1950s. The women were always nuzzling in the security of men’s brawny arms. I especially love Paul C. Burns’s piece above. The secret is in the hands. Look at the man’s arms grabbing the Audrey-like girl towards him. Look at the way she’s weakly pushing him away. Totally politically incorrect. But also, I’m sorry, totally hot.

Remember what Audrey said to Cary Grant in Charade when she informed him she was married and he apologized and walked away? She said: “quitter!”

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