Word: posterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flagg's best-known work of all was a World War I recruiting poster-perhaps the only one in history that actually drove large numbers of young men into wartime recruiting offices. Using his own lean, darkly handsome face as a model, he depicted a stern, black-browed Uncle Sam pointing an inescapable, slacker-accusing finger, demanding: I WANT YOU. The Government printed 4.000.-000 copies, shipped them to every city, town and hamlet in the nation...
Died. James Montgomery Flagg, 82, illustrator, portraitist, writer and actor, who used himself as model for the famed Uncle Sam I WANT YOU military recruiting poster; after long illness; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...cigarettes in villages with the slogan: "Men about town smoke Commandos." Another company raised sales of its safety razor blade with an illustration that would make any Westerner turn to the electric razor: a scene showing the razor cutting a lion in half, with blood dripping all over the poster. The bestselling bicycle is made by a company that distributes posters showing an African waving gaily as he outpaces a pursuing lion. On the other hand, the African is prudish, does not like come-hither cheesecake. Companies have found that the surest appeal is to stress power, virility...