Well, this is one of the more interesting TIME magazine cover images I’ve seen in awhile.
It’s amazing that Joe DiMaggio made the cover of TIME magazine (July 13, 1936) just three months into his Yankees career, but what’s up with that swing?
I’m guessing that’s a pose and that the imaginary ball would’ve been crushed in the direction his left foot is pointed. I really have no idea how this is a menacing swing and not a brutal whiff.
A few of these issues are available on eBay for $125-$300.
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The 30 Must-See Tumblrs
A few weeks ago, we asked for your favorite Tumblrs: The ones you love, the ones you can’t live without, the ones that make your .gif-loving hearts pound. We compiled your thoughts with our own to form one list of the 30 blogs every Tumblr user should know.
So who made the list? Head over to TIME.com and find out.
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Another “group” selection for TIME’s Person of the Year, joining The Whistleblowers (2002), The American Soldier (2003), The Good Samaritans (2005) and You (2006) in recent years.
Might as well make it news story of the year.
I’d predicted “Arab Youth,” so this is pretty much on target.
Seven of the last 10 winners of the U.S. presidential election have been named Person of the Year, but I can see Barack Obama being passed over if re-elected. If a Republican takes over office, he’d be a lock for POY 2012.
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TIME shares its Top 10 of Everything of 2011, the best of the year among a whopping 54 subjects, including Protest Signs, Underreported Stories, Gadgets and Sports Moments.
Pictured: War Horse, from the list of Best Movies, in which Richard Corliss writes, “Boldly emotional, nakedly heartfelt, War Horse will leave only the stoniest hearts untouched.”
Who do you think will be TIME Person of the Year?
I think Arab Youth is a certainty, and I expect a significant feature on the Navy Seal Team 6. I do prefer, however, when a single, specific person is named. Between 2002-06, there were four groups (Whistleblowers, American Soldier, Good Samaritans, You).
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TIME magazine’s Steve Jobs commemorative issue cover.
This week’s TIME magazine cover story on the decline of the middle class should be a real upper, no?
(Here’s the press release on the issue, which will hit my mailbox Friday.)
I’m intrigued by “The 5 Things You Should Never Buy Again” — uh, Jose Canseco rookie cards? — and curious, as well, about “The $75,000 Cap on Happiness.” My guess is that it relates to this L.A. Times story from last year that noted that money does seem to buy happiness, but only up till $75,000, after which point money doesn’t have the same ability to affect one’s emotional well-being.
So much for putting those mommy and daddy issues to rest.
This week’s TIME cover story is on the science of favoritism, noting, in this helpful press release through Facebook, that, “In one study, researchers found that 65% of mothers and 70% of fathers exhibited a preference for one child, usually the older one. Other research shows that kids who feel less loved than their siblings are more likely to develop anxiety, low self-esteem and depression.”
Finally sat The King’s Speech last night. Thought it was very good, though I’m not entirely sure how gripping it was, considering I knew it would end with the king’s inspiring address to his people.
Here’s King George VI on the cover of TIME magazine, on Jan. 12, 1925, as Albert of York.
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In this week’s editor’s letter, TIME managing editor Rick Stengel reflects on his own 9/11 experience:
“On that morning 10 years ago, I was sitting in Time’s office in New York when I first heard news reports of the plane crashing into the World Trade Center. I was then the editor of Time.com. I wrote the first news story of the grim events of that day and later went to the roof of the Time & Life Building to see the smoke rising from the southern tip of Manhattan. This issue is a fitting memorial to what we have all lived through and what we all remember.”
In the video above, you can watch him introduce our “Beyond 9/11” project, a reflection of the American resilience that lives on 10 years later.
Rick was my boss that crystal-clear Tuesday morning, just hours after TIME.com coworkers attended a house-warming party I threw on the Upper West Side, coinciding with a Giants-Broncos Monday Night Football game. We grew as a unit fast. The Summer of the Shark was over.
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A spectacular photoillustration.Welcome TIME and their excellent photo blog, LightBox, to Tumblr.
Also, this. LightBox should be fantastic.
A press release from TIME says this is “only the third cover in TIME’s 88-year history without the trademark red border.”
I still have the black-bordered special issue from the week of 9/11/2001, when I worked for TIME.com. In 2008, TIME produced a green-bordered, global-warming-themed issue for Earth Day.
TIME covers were all white-bordered, though, from its inception in 1923 through 1926, so I’m unclear as the why p.r. is claiming only the third non-red-border in an 88-year history, when it seems more accurate to say since first featuring a red border in 1927.
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The job of journalism is, as the columnist Richard Reeves has said, is to give people the news they need to keep their freedoms. People need to know what threatens them; need to know the dangers. In war or depression, people do not pay so much attention to a story like Condit/Levy. They want to know whether they are in danger of being defeated by their enemy, and what they can do to stop it.
TIME magazine’s cover on this week’s economic crisis.
Forty-two years ago today — on July 20, 1969 — Apollo 11 landed U.S. men on the moon. I own this awesome TIME magazine from that week.
