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...continued to thrive. In 1821 its name was changed to the Saturday Evening Post-a misnomer then as now, since the magazine never has appeared on Saturday (it now comes out Tuesdays). As publisher of some of the best 19th century fiction, from Edgar Allan Poe to James Fenimore Cooper, it enjoyed a nationwide vogue. But reading tastes change, and by 1897 Post circulation had wasted to 2,000 from a peak of 90,000; the magazine was sold to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, a former Maine dry goods clerk who had demonstrated an early flair for publishing. Starting with...
...recognizable as Pablo Picasso and Kathy (his stepdaughter since his marriage to Jacqueline). The photographs he used as models can be found in The Private World of Pablo Picasso, by David D. Duncan. The "Lolita-like" girl is Kathy, the figure for the man is, of all people, Gary Cooper, and the face of the "sinister" old man is Picasso...
...Painter Strombotne says that the figures were indeed inspired by Duncan's photographs of Kathy and Cooper, but denies that the face is Picasso...
...devotion to the experiment earned him the flight. Said he with a grin: "Maybe I'm a link between Ham the Space Chimp and man." Whatever the reasons, it was Shepard who was chosen by National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials for the first, historic hop. Slayton and Cooper busied themselves with communications; Schirra and Carpenter flew jet chase planes over the range; Slayton and Grissom were on hand to greet their buddy at Grand Bahama Island; John Glenn was the back-up man and checked out the capsule...
...Lieut. Commander M. Scott Carpenter, U.S.N., Captain L. Gordon Cooper Jr., U.S.A.F., Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn Jr., U.S.M.C., Captain Virgil I. Grissom, U.S.A.F., Lieut. Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr., U.S.N., Captain Donald K. Slayton, U.S.A.F...