Pulp International - Vintage cover from Calvert Publications for Dee Sea Nurse

Jan 25 2017

When you're down there don't think of him as an aquatic mammal. Think of him as just another patient in need.

Above, a curious cover for Gwen Pearce's Deep Sea Nurse, from the Australian imprint Calvert Publishing, 1966. Pearce wrote several other novels, all about nursing, including 1970's Snowline Nurse, which we're guessing takes her protagonist to an alpine mountaintop. We found this cover on the University of Otago's medical romance page. They have a few more interesting examples if you're inclined to have a look.

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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

1942—Carole Lombard Dies in Plane Crash

American actress Carole Lombard, who was the highest paid star in Hollywood during the late 1930s, dies in the crash of TWA Flight 3, on which she was flying from Las Vegas to Los Angeles after headlining a war bond rally in support of America's military efforts. She was thirty-three years old.

1919—Luxemburg and Liebknecht Are Killed

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps. Freikorps was a term applied to various paramilitary organizations that sprang up around Germany as soldiers returned in defeat from World War I. Members of these groups would later become prominent members of the SS.

1967—Summer of Love Begins

The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park with between 20,000 to 30,000 people in attendance, their purpose being to promote their ideals of personal empowerment, cultural and political decentralization, communal living, ecological preservation, and higher consciousness. The event is considered the beginning of the famed counterculture Summer of Love.

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