It is the 4th of July when nothin’ much is happenin’; I just relax and flip through old design artifacts for hidden symbols and clandestine meanings—and phenoms that might interest Daily Heller readers. While looking through some old Fortune magazines published just before the end of World War II in 1945, I noticed a startling commonality in some of the advertising pages of one particular issue. If you are also just lazing around play along. Do you see what I see? Take a minute or two.
What do you think? What is common to all yet not at all prominent in most? (Answer below.)
*Answer: If you said animals, and specifically an ol’ dog, coupla’ fish, some ducks, a goose, pig, quail, mules and horses, you saw what I saw. Now, I see animals everywhere. I’d better go outside and chase that bear and wolf away.
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