World Week, Volume 27, Number 7
By ALAN SCHERSTUHL
Each week, your Crap Archivst brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.
World Week, Volume 27, Number 7
Author: An all-American staff of fact-loving, kid-informing, Commie-hating bores. Also: Gay Head and the Nestle chocolate company.
Date: October 27, 1955
Discovered at: Mission estate sale
The Cover Promises: Grey-and-yellow Halloween fun for Eisenhower-era high schoolers, with only the tiny legend “Adapted from American Legion Magazine” betraying the gloomy reality.
Representative Quotes:
Page 8: “Look at the map for a fuller picture of Russia’s rich mineral deposits.”
Page 29: “Can atomic bombs explode accidentally? That’s a question the Atomic Energy Commission hopes to answer by a series of tests next month.”
