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Life Magazine: Beginning a New Series: The Human Body
Time Life Books, 1962. Large Softcover. Good. Light cover edge wear, pages lightly toned. CONTENTS: Story of the Week-Bull's eye from a front-row seat. First color photographs and Wally Schirra's narrative. Editorials - Barnstorming won't fix up the country An eloquent G.O.P. liberal; Newsfronts - The wild wind that raged against Olympus..Surging battle of nonrunning Presidents..Scent of scandal gathers in the gallery..A catastastroke? Not this four-handed combo..Bending down. De Gaulle unbends..French flivver's highfalutin flabbergaster..A legaacy of warm, perceptive journalism from Bill Gray; Article of the Week - The workings of the incomparable human body-The Editors of LIFE present a new series; Close-Up Joan of Arc or dragon lady? By Milton Orshefsky; Departments - Sports: high eye on a huddle, Movies: the O'Neills: a tragic epilogue to the drama. By Peter Bunzel, Animals: it's a zebronkey, Better Living: old stanbys all spruced up, Television: him Tarzan??? Jungle Jack fiddles while Jack burns, Special Report: dirty work on the voting machines. By Robert D. Loevy; LIFE Guide to art exhibitions, books, movies, records, sports; Letters to the Editors; Miscellany: Look Who's Here. "Life is an American magazine that publishes interviews, essays, cartoons, and photos. At one point it sold more than 13.5 million copies a week; today Life is distributed as a free supplement in major U.S. newspapers. It was born in the early 1880s as a humor magazine and sold well during the late 1930s. In the years following World War II, Life was so popular that President Harry S. Truman, Sir Winston Churchill, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur all serialized their memoirs in its pages. Life was the first all-photography U.S. news magazine and dominated the market for more than forty years. Perhaps one of the best-known pictures printed in the magazine was Alfred Eisenstaedt's shot of a nurse in a sailor's arms, snapped on August 27, 1945, as they celebrated Victory Over Japan Day in New York City. The magazine's place in the history of photojournalism is considered its most important contribution to publishing. However, Life did not always have its familiar white type on red field logo. Beginning in 1883 and continuing for 53 years, Life was a general-interest light entertainment magazine, heavy on illustrations, jokes, and social commentary. It attracted some of the greatest writers, editors, and cartoonists of its era. In 1936 it was bought by Henry Luce, publisher of Fortune and Time, and transformed into a news picture magazine. It was wildly successful for two generations before its prestige was diminished by economics and changing tastes. Since 1972, Life has ceased publication twice, only to be brought back to readers in different incarnations." -- Wikipedia.
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