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These illustrations appeared in the October, 1949 issue of Liberty magazine, accompanying that month's featured 'condensed book'.

Most of artist
Tom Sinnickson's cartoony panels are lighthearted and playful (and delightfully incongruous when divorced from the main text), but the 'cover' and a couple of others effectively carry a darker feeling.








In the 1950s, Sinnickson illustrations turned up in many popular children's books, including some picture-book editions of various Wizard Of Oz stories for younger readers , 'A Child's Book of Planes', 'The Five Jolly Brothers', and several adaptations of older Raggedy Ann stories, all published by
Wonder Books.

Any other info you can share about Tom Sinnickson and his artwork is most welcome.
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'How to Stop Worrying and Start Living' was first published in
1948, written by American lecturer and pioneering
'self-help' author
Dale Carnegie. ▶

It was a
follow-up to his immensely popular book, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People', first published in 1936.

Those curious can read Carnegie's own summary to this book by following this link,
or one may click over to Google Books for
a preview of the current revised edition.

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Chicago's Formfit company began producing ladies' foundation garments in 1917, eventually branching out beyond corsets and girdles to manufacture other types of lingerie.

See also:
- Leif Peng shows several other period examples of 'That Formfit Look' and talks about the advertising strategies at play in an old post at his blog, Today's Inspiration.

- The site 'Mummy! Have you seen my Girdle?' also has much to say on the subject, and cites the Formfit brand often in its 'Past Times' section.

Weeks & weeks later, and at last I'm ready to resume the bloggery I so enjoy.

The blog was in stasis, longer than I'd expected, just as I suspected it would be.

Many thanks to those who sent comments and other notes of concern. It was greatly appreciated.

Avoiding the boring details, the blog was down while I was away and traveling to take care of some tedious fluxed-up responsibilities elsewhere, and dealing with some pesky but thankfully minor health issues. Y'know, life stuff.

I hate explanations of inactivity in blogs almost as much as I hate to hear myself complain, but - - gee whiz, things have been extra challenging lately...

... maybe for you too? Who knew?!?

So, the blog is back 'live' again, and my desire is to keep it up and running at some kind of regular pace, and to keep sharing distractions and other essential nonsense that will be of interest to folks just like you.

We'll see how that goes. What happens next?

There are no guarantees, and it seems change is the only constant.

Thanks for your time, and thanks for stopping by.

Enough 'State of the Blog', back to the fun stuff!