New York Times Mid-Week Pictorial, January 14, 1933 (plus a bonus)

This was a magazine that I assume came inside the New York Times. This was preserved quite nicely in plastic, so it's in very good shape for a 90-year-old magazine. As you can see, this was the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Number, and the first half of the magazine was devoted to the former President who had died a few days earlier.

There were lots of photos of Silent Cal from his childhood to 1932. Not a whole lot of interest unless you are a big Coolidge fan.

The rest of the magazine was devoted to photos related to arts, entertainment and the news. You'd never know there was a Depression going on with some of these fashions.

Plays and movies in the theater listings, with some big names like Fred Astaire and William Powell.

Some interesting news oddities, like a gas station built around an old airplane, evidence of a prehistoric comet collision, artificial snow, and a butt log.

Sports! No baseball in January, but a full page of Rose Bowl coverage. USC shut out Pittsburgh, 35-0. The bottom left has a photo of USC quarterback Cotton Warburton. A unanimous All-American, Warburton turned down an offer from the Chicago Bears and instead took a job in film editing. He had an outstanding career as a film editor, and was the lead editor for most of Walt Disney's live action films in the 1950s and 1960s. He won an Academy Award in 1964 for Mary Poppins.

I mentioned a bonus. Tucked inside the magazine was this page from the Boston Herald of November 6, 1932. This was two days before election day, and one side featured President and Mrs. Hoover.

Meanwhile, the other side had some football highlights! Dartmouth lost to Harvard 10-7, failing to execute a last-second fake kick, as diagrammed in the photo below.