Spotting old books and magazines and dummy newspapers in TV, movies and old photos

KGeo777 mentioned the TV movie Along a Came a Spider recently. The missus and I watched it this evening on a murky YouTube download that loses some dialogue and some detail on the newspaper we glimpse. We still were entertained.
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...entertained, though the principals were both immoral people. I suppose the Berkeley campus milieu was appropriate for that element. Because you don’t, perhaps, feel close to either, you can focus on the clever plot twists without sympathizing with either as persons. Maybe this is a bit of a Les Liaisons Dangereuses thing? I’ve never read that.

But I wish the smaller headlines were readable.
 
At the bottom centre of the Eskimo Nell screenshot:

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Toby, I like a lot of the staff I've met in bookstores, but I don't recall ever meeting a Dorothy Malone in one. I'm pretty sure I'd remember, if I had.
 
Randy M. said:
Toby, I like a lot of the staff I've met in bookstores, but I don't recall ever meeting a Dorothy Malone in one. I'm pretty sure I'd remember, if I had.
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I get the pitter-patters every time I go into our local bookshop. One of the women who works there is.... ah well. If I was twenty years younger I would still be too old...
 
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Fred's checking the 9 December 1972 issue of TV Guide in a second season teleplay of Sanford and Son, "Home Sweet Home for the Aged," broadcast 16 February 1973.
 
That's a tantalizing photo! I thought the Mentor on the left with the red flags (?) and blue globe (?) might be easy, but I haven't identified it.
 
Not spotted but I'd forgotten I did this. For a while one of my ideas of fun was making covers for my Society for the Promulgation of Fictitious Books and messed about in Illustrator making dust wrappers for books that don't actually exist. I used to wrap them around paperbacks I sold on eBay, and trades on bookswap sites.

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