SLIDESHOW: Happy 100! Darien celebrates Maplewood resident’s birthday with parade
The Saturday Evening Post, a weekly magazine which Jinishian delivered, cost 5 cents. — Telephones were a party line with several other people on them — A new pair of pants and/or shoes were a once a year ...
Obituary: Mort Walker, creator of 'Beetle Bailey'
Walker was working as a magazine cartoonist in New York when John Bailey, the cartoon editor of the Saturday Evening Post, encouraged him to do some cartoons based on his college experiences at the University of ...
Saturday Evening Post reinvents itself
To complement the magazine, the Post has relaunched its Web site, offering new posts each Saturday evening - naturally - with retrospective, art, blogs, health coverage and other content. ... New owners changed ...
On the Market / Darien house boasts picturesque setting
As this house was originally built in 1925, in a location with views of Tilley Pond Park, it would have been a good subject for Rockwell’s paint brushes, perhaps even making the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in one of his illustrations.
The old is new again at Saturday Evening Post
"The Saturday Evening Post is no longer my father's magazine; it's my grandfather's magazine," said Samir A. ... To complement the magazine, the Post has relaunched its Web site, offering new posts each Saturday ...
Darien Antiques Show features art of cartoonist
Though the name John Norment may not be known to most people, his cartoons and illustrations, which appeared widely in the New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal and other magazines, may be ...
Obituary: Betty Richards
She published articles in magazines including The Saturday Evening Post and American Girl, and collaborated on ABC's Theater Five radio drama series with Helene Bowman and celebrated actor Lee Bowman.
This is how Coca - Cola 'invented' Santa Claus
According to the firm's Coke Lore site, the company began using the character in the 1920s in advertising for magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal , National Geographic , The New ...
Bartee Haile: Cal Farley saved boys at bottom of the barrel
When a reporter from the Saturday Evening Post toured the unique spread in 1962, 300 boys from 32 states lived 36 to a dorm under the watchful eyes of a live-in couple.
Freedom worth fighting for right here in America
Freedom from Want, Norman Rockwell Oil on canvas Saturday Evening Post, March 6, 1943 ?1943 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN Norman Rockwell Museum Collection Freedom of Speech, Norman ...
Disneyland is reopening the Blue Bayou restaurant — this time with alcohol
That brings people that we don't want and I feel they don't need it,” he told the Saturday Evening Post in 1956.
MFAH dives into history with ‘Norman Rockwell: American Freedom’ exhibit
During several decades, he produced about 321 covers for the Saturday Evening Post. ... (Schaeffer was also a top Saturday Evening Post illustrator.) ... Norman Rockwell painted "Freedom from Fear" as an ...
Event at Beulah deli honors watercolor artist Roland Roycraft
Signed original paintings, prints, sketches and artifacts will be on display and available for purchase with discounts on that evening only. ... Graduating from Duluth Central high school, Roycraft took ...
Letter: ‘We have seen something; now say something’
Thomas Clauss New Canaan Norman Rockwell painted “Freedom of Speech” as an illustration for The Saturday Evening Post early in 1943.
Ridgefield notables: Roger Kahn, A Boy of Summer
In the mid-1950s, he became a sports editor for Newsweek, and freelanced for Sports Illustrated, The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. ... In 1959, Saturday Evening Post wanted Kahn to get his friend to write ...
Looking back: May 29
Associated Press 1943: Norman Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter" appeared on The Saturday Evening Post cover. 1953: Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norgay of Nepal became the ...
Exploring freedoms
1943 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN Norman Rockwell Museum Collection Freedom from Fear, Norman Rockwell Oil on canvas Saturday Evening Post, March 13, 1943 ?1943 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis ...
Ridgefield’s Connelly family wins recreated image contest, food pantry benefits
The final standings/totals were: Connelly Family “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” — $1,111; Barbara Jennes “Emily Dickinson” — $1,035; Jessica Mancini “We Can Do It” — $860; Aimee Berger-Girvalo “Statue ...
Recreated Images Contest ends Friday
The following is a list of contestants, their recreated images and the money they have raised: Barbara Jennes, Emily Dickinson, $750; Aimee Berger-Girvalom Statue of Sybil Ludington, $630; Connelly Family, “Raising ...
Way Back When … 1962
As Fairfield Ludlowe High School readies itself for its senior prom this weekend, let’s take a look at one of the items in the Fairfield Museum’s Creating Community exhibition: the May 19, 1962 issue of The ...