A Themeless Transition

Having moved out of our weight class last week and being wrestled to the rhetorical mat we're in a mood to flee to fluffier funfare. We're going to let the pictures speak for themselves with some assistance from LIFE's probably outsourced and offshored worker bee captioners. And what better format for a themeless transition than the lamented thumbnail?(yeth, we know that thome of you have been mithing them).