If we ever get out of this, I’m never watching Shark Week again. Our post from Sunday showed two guys who didn’t want to be rescued (sort of), and today, on this September 1964 cover of Australia’s Adam magazine, we have castaways that really need help. The illustration is for Hal Abbott’s story “Isle of Change,” a very interesting tale about a sailboat out of Pago Pago that sinks in a storm, marooning three survivors—first on a raft, then on a deserted island. One of the trio is a sailor devoted to his wife in Sydney, while the other two are scheming, dangerous women. In the end, one woman feeds the other to a shark that has been after them since the boat sank, and the sailor is compelled to keep the secret in order to avoid being blamed. Basically, the idea behind the story is: “There were savages on that island, and verily, they were us.” We have sixteen scans below, thirty-three issues of Adam already posted in the website, and eight more issues in the wings.
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
1910—First Seaplane Takes Flight
Frenchman Henri Fabre, who had studied airplane and propeller designs and had also patented a system of flotation devices, accomplishes the first take-off from water at Martinque, France, in a plane he called Le Canard, or "the duck." 1953—Jim Thorpe Dies
American athlete Jim Thorpe, who was one of the most prolific sportsmen ever and won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, played American football at the collegiate and professional levels, and also played professional baseball and basketball, dies of a heart attack. 1958—Khrushchev Becomes Premier
Nikita Khrushchev becomes premier of the Soviet Union. During his time in power he is responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, and presides over the rise of the early Soviet space program, but his many policy failures lead to him being deposed in October 1964. After his removal he is pensioned off and lives quietly the rest of his life, eventually dying of heart disease in 1971. 1997—Heaven's Gate Cult Members Found Dead
In San Diego, thirty-nine members of a cult called Heaven's Gate are found dead after committing suicide in the belief that a UFO hidden in tail of the Hale-Bopp comet was a signal that it was time to leave Earth for a higher plane of existence. The cult members killed themselves by ingesting pudding and applesauce laced with poison.
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