I saw Bob Barker on the cover of a tabloid at the grocery store last night and it reminded me that I had this article scanned.

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…”It’s Been Fun”

By Bob Barker

If you have been watching Truth Or Consequences since I started doing the show daytime on NBC, you are nine years older than you were when you and I first became friends. It has been almost a decade. I have done about 2,300 shows and interviewed more than 12,000 contestants.

Now, after all these years, NBC has cancelled Truth Or Consequences. Frankly, I am disgusted. I think the network should have given the show a chance to get off the ground.
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Electric Mask is just what the doctor ordered for sinus pains, colds, facial neuralgia and headaches. It covers the front of the head and cheeks. Just plug it into a wall socket.

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FOUND – The Weapon That Will Win The War

The greatest scientists of the world’s most powerful nations have searched in vain for what a Bulgarian refugee, without fanfare or hullabaloo, has found after years of patient and painstaking experiment in his laboratory. The secret is now America’s!
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New Glider to Soar With Sails

THE WORLD’S first sailplane, something new in gliding, has just been constructed by John Demenjoz of Bridgeport, Connecticut. This novel glider represents nearly a year of work. It has a 40-foot wing spread, is 30 feet in length, and altogether weighs less than 600 lbs.
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AUTHENTIC WESTERN SADDLE RING

FOR MEN WOMEN or CHILDREN PURE

STERLING SILVER

Only $4.95 POSTPAID We Pay Tax

First time at anywhere hear this low price! Authentic replica of romantic western saddle. Read the rest of this entry »

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Believe it or Not!

“Rip,” famous cartoonist, tells how he makes $1,000,000 a year out of your curiosity, and how he once socked Jack Dempsey on the jaw and got away with it—Believe it or Not!

by ROBERT L. RIPLEY as told to Alfred Albelli

HAVING been called a liar more times than any other person or group of persons in the world in any epoch, I want to state a discovery of mine which created about as much excitement, in my life anyway, as the feat in question itself.
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Cluster Bomb For Uncle Sam

JACOB BAKER, inventor of Cleveland, Ohio, holds a quarter-size model of his “cluster bomb,” blueprints and plans of which he has sent to Washington to offer for his country’s defense. Baker says the six small bombs are released from the larger bombs, thus creating more widespread damage.

The future looks like the present, only more so.

You may have to wait for this, but… right now you can enjoy that “New Car Feel”

Install 2-in-1 Chrome Piston Rings

While you’re waiting for your “dream car” there’s no need to put up with sluggish performance in the car you’re now driving. Your Doctor

of Motors—your skilled mechanic— knows how to restore the responsive power of your car’s engine and to bring back that satisfying “New Car Feel.”
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U.S. Buries 6 Billions in Gold

Protected by water, gas and electricity.

Uncle Sam guards six tons of yellow metal from gangland and foreign foes.

by Ollie M. James

WITH utmost secrecy, Uncle Sam has buried the largest gold cache in history —192,000,000 ounces of the precious yellow metal worth $6,000,000,000. Where he has buried it, however, is no secret.
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The doctor makes his rounds

Wherever he goes he is welcome. His satisfactions in life are reflected in the smiling faces of youngsters like this one below, and of countless others whom he has long attended. Yes, the doctor represents an honored profession … his professional reputation and his record of service are his most cherished possessions. Read the rest of this entry »

WE BLUSH TO STATE

Our natural modesty would prevent us from making any wildly extravagant claims about FOR MEN, the pocket-size men’s magazine. We wouldn’t think tor a minute, for example, of calling our reading matter excellent and our cartoons superb. Yet in this morning’s mail we received this comment: Read the rest of this entry »

Every time I see the word maneuver I think of this.

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I Drove A Nazi Tank

by Ernst Freiherr von Jungenfeld
German Tank Corps Commander
(The following remarkable story, containing an eyewitness account of the first actual tank battle ever staged, is translated from the “Berliner Illustriete Zeitung.” Although written from an obviously German viewpoint, it is published because of its highly instructive value to all students of mechanized warfare—The Editor.)

IT IS May 9, 1940.

We get our orders at five o’clock in the afternoon to be ready to roll in six hours. At first, we thought it was just for manoeuvres, but this time it is the real thing—and, at 11 p.m., we start to move!
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