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MagazineEntry/Object ID
2015.099.0022Scope and Content
Life Magazine, March 11, 1957. One of a series of seven LIFE magazines from a 10 year period from 1947 to 1957.
The cover is a photograph of Senator John F. Kennedy described as one of his party's fastest-rising and most articulate young members. At only 39, he had been in Congress for 10 years, the last four in the Senate. In 1956 he came within a few votes of winning the Democratic vice-presidential nomination. In this issue he authors a multiple page article with the headline 'A Democrat Says Party Must Lead-or Get Left'. Kennedy states "under the direction of old-style politicians, Democrats' old-model coalition has been losing voter blocks--minority groups, veterans, farmers, small businessmen--to attractions of Eisenhower-Nixon New Republicanism which blocks (the Democrats) party's road to the White House".
Also part 9 of the series 'The Epic Of Man' depicts how the Soldiers of Homeric Greece and Sailors of Phoenicia shaped European history. Included is a series of stunning fold-out drawings showing the places and actions of the time.
Birds Eye was a large advertiser with a full two page facing ad of their brand including a 10 cent cut-out 'Dividend' toward the purchase of two packages of Birds Eye Peas.
LIFE was an American magazine that ran weekly from 1883 to 1972, published initially as a humor and general interest magazine. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936, solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name, and shifted it to a role as a weekly news magazine with a strong emphasis on photojournalism. LIFE was published weekly until 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and as a monthly from 1978 to 2002.Collection
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