Pulp International - Cover for Flight Hostess Rogers by Mike Avallone

Aug 27 2013

I think there's space in my cockpit for you, as long as you don't mind squeezing in.

Actually, they call it a flight deck now, precisely so passengers on the aircraft don’t all snicker when the captain announces, “And sharing the cockpit with me this evening is first officer...” We came across this cover for Mike Avallone’s 1962 sleaze novel Flight Hostess Rogers and it sort of spoke to us. The book is about a “handsome, satanic flight captain” and a stewardess named Ceil Rogers who he takes sexual advantage of, and who (standard in sleaze) thinks she may have liked it. The art is uncredited, but rather effective, we think.

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2003—Hope Dies

Film legend Bob Hope dies of pneumonia two months after celebrating his 100th birthday.

1945—Churchill Given the Sack

In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives.

1952—Evita Peron Dies

Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974.

1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945.

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