“Man Fighting Head Cold” (Among Us Mortals, 02/19/1950)
by W.E. (William Ely) Hill (1887-1962)
18.5 x 15 in., ink on board
Coppola Collection

W.E. (William Ely) Hill (1887-1962) was known for his masterful black and white Sunday page, “Among Us Mortals,” sometimes referred to as the Hill Page.

From this February 19, 1950 edition, titled “Man Fighting head Cold” some quotes:

“Some love to be coddled. At the start of a cold in the head, Morton phones the office that he’s ill with what all the symptoms of pneumonia or black plague. Then the family serves him hot drinks, aspirin and sweet sympathy and he has a swell time.”

“The boy who inhales things. Stanley uses an inhaler in a big way when he gets that stuffed-up feeling. First, he sniffs up one nostril, then ditto up the other. Fascinating to watch.”