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Month: December 2021

CIPC #254: Bohn ad

Posted on December 28, 2021

Our subject for today is one of the stranger ads I have seen. It appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1952 and was apparently…

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CIPC #253: The lone wolf spy hunt

Posted on December 21, 2021

During the course of the years, this blog has put the spotlight on a number of forgotten merchandises: The crime doctor, the Philo Vance series,…

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CIPC #252: Chess in literature, the sequel

Posted on December 14, 2021January 3, 2022

Long, long time ago — the world was still innocent then1 — I wrote a blog post about chess in literature. In it, I discussed…

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CIPC #251: Vogue cover

Posted on December 7, 2021December 7, 2021

Let’s continue our discussions of magazine covers. This time, we go all the way back to 1929. Vogue is already a well-established fashion magazine. Chess…

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Chess in popular culture

With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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