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Tag Archives: J. Edgar Hoover

New Year’s Eve 1938 and 2017: Elephants and G-men (or when FBI Agents were Heroes)

The January 1, 2018, New Yorker cover, “Cramped” by George Booth, features a huge grey elephant that looms over the living room of two people trying to have a quiet evening at home. Another pachyderm appeared on the December 31, 1938, cover of the magazine. This gleeful pink elephant by Rea Irvin (1881-1972) might just as…

December 30, 2017 in Notes from the Field, Such Mad Fun.

Cosmopolitan’s “Shocking Exposé” of Real Spies and Intelligence in 1940.

As I flipped through old Cosmopolitans from the days when the magazine introduced critical national issues to its young, largely female readers, an article from the Oct 1940 issue jumped out at me.* It was written by White House correspondent John Jay Daly and author Donald E. Kehoe. In light of our current battles about…

January 17, 2017 in Such Mad Fun.

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