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We checked online and the indications that you need a new mattress include: it's more than eight years old, you wake with aches and pains, and there's a noticeable sag. And the indications you need a new life include: your bed is in a filthy slum tenement. Such is the case with Perversity and Depravity, 1956 and 1957, in which virtually every character needs a do-over of their existence. Both books, by New Caledonian author Francis Carco, née François Carcopino-Tusoli, are set in the 1920s Parisian underworld of prostitution, crime, and poverty. Carco deals with these subjects compassionately, and his work is heavy with colloquialism and has a strong sense of place. He acquired his insight the old fashioned way—by consorting with the types of people he wrote about. Though his work is obscure in the English speaking world, he was fairly well regarded in his day and is still remembered in France. These are dark books, maybe even brutal, certainly ahead of their time. Harry Barton painted the cover of Perversity and an uncredited artist handled the chores on Depravity.
![POLE POSITION](/images/headline/3600.png) These are people who definitely pay attention to the poles. ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_01.jpg)
When you look at lots of paperbacks sometimes a common thread suddenly jumps out at you that went unnoticed before. Such was the case a few weeks ago when we noticed the large number of characters on mid-century covers leaning against poles—light poles, telephone poles, sign poles, etc. We suggested someone should put together a collection, but of course we really meant us, so today you see above and below various characters deftly using these features of the urban streetscape as accessories. Art is from Benedetto Caroselli, Harry Schaare, George Gross, Rudolph Belarski, James Avati, et al. You can see a couple more examples here and here. ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_25.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_24.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_21.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_22.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_23.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_26.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_28.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_29.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/pole_position_20.jpg)
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
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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