What was on the cover of TIME magazine the day YOU were born?

[ConcernedCanuk]

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yeah

I did this http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=1111149">almost 5 years ago << pic heavy though . .

Though it might be interesting to see the differences

here's mine - they have mini and large pics now,





click on my cover with L'il Abner and Daisy Mae above for the link

then look for the



image on the left

[MrScorpio]

1. 27 October 1961

[trof]

2. Henry L. Stimson - Secretary of War

8/25/41

[DFW]

3. I was busy at the time and forgot to look.

It's just as well. I STILL have no idea who Mortimer Adler is or was.

[Maine-ah]

4. 4-1-74

[Deja Q]

11. Wow, they make him look like an old Woody Allen... And since you showed me yours,

That's mine.

Mr Empty Pants (courtesy Peggy Bundy)

[ConcernedCanuk]

61. AHA - that's when the Dept of Defense was named properly - The Department of WAR!

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Yeppers people, that's what it used to be named, and should be renamed back.

USA isn't defending itself, it's just making war all over the globe.

But that's what dominant empire building nations do;

make war . . .

(sigh)

[Bertha Venation]

5. musician George Szell

2/22/63

[Whoa_Nelly]

34. April 26, 1954 (The Bomb! In color even!)

[WinkyDink]

6. October 21--November 6, 1949:

Birthday = November 5, 1949:

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19491031,00.html

[ConcernedCanuk]

26. Yours would be this guy then . .

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[geomon666]

7. Um...The End of the World....

....I am the anti christ. :evilgrin:

[Drunken Irishman]

65. At least they gave Carter almost a year before discussing the pending doom.

Obama got two months!

[tekisui]

8. Ugh:

[DeepBlueC]

10. Oh, poor you

:scared:

[Schema Thing]

14. Tell me about it:

Here's me:




Guess I'll meet you over on FreeRepublic.



It's been fun guys, but I was born to be an idiot asshole.

[Call Me Wesley]

9. Here's mine:

[yellowdogintexas]

12. here's mine

October 25 1948

November 1 1948


I was born in between these two

[Ptah]

13. LMAO

Dec 11, 1950:

[tigereye]

43. wow, that pic of Mao with the crickets is rather disturbing, in light of the

famine and Great Leap Forward issues to come. Curious what the cover says...

[Schema Thing]

15. uh oh

Damn!


Or maybe I cursed their party? I didn't become political until 2000. "can they find a leader" indeed.

[elleng]

16. OMG! SORRY!

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19450205,00.html

[Ptah]

18. Mine is Mao, maybe we should get together

:rofl:

[nuxvomica]

17. Averell Harriman

[Zavulon]

32. Same here, but different cover.

[timtom]

60. Harriman looks like Mr. Rogers.

[AwakeAtLast]

19. Here's mine

January 1970

[begin_within]

20. Sadly,

[elana i am]

21. except for the big yellow

'alcoholism' the one from the week i was born is kind of nondescript...

[Texasgal]

22. wow... how poetic

[Reverend_Smitty]

23. 25 years ago today...I was born and you could buy this issue...

[jobycom]

30. Happy birthday, Thriller!

[Lady President]

24. Welfare Maze

They could run the same cover today:

IMG]

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19710208,00.html

[Deja Q]

29. Only if if was a straight corridor with flashing arrows and they called it "corporate welfare"

:yoiks:

[auntAgonist]

25. Jan 7-13 1957. I was born on the 12th

The Man of the Year had many faces, but he was not faceless; he had many names, but he was not nameless. History would know him by the face, intense, relentless, desperate and determined, that he had worn on the evening of Oct. 23 in the streets of Budapest; history would know him by the name he had chosen for himself during his dauntless contest with Soviet tanks: the Hungarian Freedom Fighter.

[tigereye]

44. wow, thats pretty cool!

[Aristus]

27. Ari and Jackie O.

[madinmaryland]

28. Second week of June 1961 JFK!!

[Zavulon]

31. This

[soleiri]

33. Oh joy

October 5 1970 issue, I was born the day after.

[ConcernedCanuk]

35. Wow - interesting ribbon on "Facing the Middle East - When to Use or not use Power"

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so the Middle East has been on the agenda for over 3 decades

wow - them PNAC/BFEE people sure plan long range . .

I guess we are in the "Use of Power" mode

(sigh)

[tigereye]

45. the Middle East has been on folk's agenda for centuries...

maybe even for millenia... :rofl:

[Ava]

36. October 1990

[VenusRising]

37. The closest one...

July 5, 1976


I was born the next day. :)

[ConcernedCanuk]

38. Interesting - "The Promised Land" - and living in a place called Columbus

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And a Birthday Issue to boot!

Some Karma goin on there .

maybe? - - :freak:

[VenusRising]

48. I was actually born in Toledo, Ohio.

But that is an interesting observation.

:hi:

[Jamastiene]

39. Well, I found August 10th, but I was born on the 7th at 2:53 AM

Here is the 10th of August, 1970:

[friedgreentomatoes]

40. sad day

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19771226,00.html

[tigereye]

41. good question - probably a picture of Eisenhower, or something

ah, a picture of a geneticist I had not heard of... interesting.

[ghostsofgiants]

42. March 26, 1985 -- Gorbachev

Came out on the 25th of March in '85.

[XemaSab]

46. Spain: Democracy Wins

[femmocrat]

47. A writer, Rebecca West. I never heard of her before today!

"The Book. The Meaning of Treason is a collection of Rebecca West's reports of the trials of a number of British World War II traitors. She covered the trials on assignment for the New Yorker, where her articles (now expanded and revised) were first published. But the idea was her own, and she could scarcely have chosen a better person for the job.

Rebecca West is a novelist of note ( The Thinking Reed), a distinguished literary critic (The Strange Necessity). But, above all, as she proved in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941), she is one of the greatest of living journalists. "

Maybe I'll try to find her book!

[SoxFan]

49. Well, ain't this an ironic birthday present

[PfcHammer]

50. Time only cost fiddy cents in 1972!

[Are_grits_groceries]

51. Oh goody...

[DemBones DemBones]

52. Hey, I got Harold Stassen. At least people know who

Eisenhower and Nixon are.

[AbbeyRoad]

53. It seems this was the cover.

I didn't know who she was until I clicked the story. :shrug:

[Fuzz]

54. Freedom from Fear: A story about the birth control pill

[SalmonChantedEvening]

55. What else, a Democrat. :)

[EFerrari]

56. Cool! Louis Marx, the toy guy.

[skygazer]

57. My birthday - Jackie Kennedy

And my husband's -



We're 6 months apart.

[Odin2005]

58. April 28, 1986; Tripoli

[timtom]

59. Here's mine:

October 26, 1942 (my birthday is Oct. 25)

[rainbow4321]

62. "Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi"

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,27-02-1965,00.html

[Drunken Irishman]

63. Wow, Shirley MacLaine was turning 50 when I was born? Holy Jesus.

She's older than I thought! :o

[csziggy]

64. July 14, 1952 - And nothing has changed since in politics!

Convention lead up. Was that the first year that they were covered by TV?

Articles such as:

Victory v. Fraud
Monday, Jul. 14, 1952


In his weekly "Editor's Report" last week, William Randolph Hearst Jr, gave Hearst readers an impartial look at the Taft-Ike battle, then slyly added a story about another ding-dong political race.

Wrote Hearst: "My father was running for something or other. The election results would be in just about edition time and the editors were worried—not only about the result, as it was a very close affair, but about how to beat the competition. The dilemma was resolved by a resourceful editor who printed up two sets of papers in advance and sent them out on the trucks to hold until given the word. The first headline proclaimed: HEARST WINS. The other read FRAUD.

Way to Regeneration
Monday, Jul. 14, 1952


If the U.S. feels a need for a regeneration of its political ethics, the first day of the Republican National Convention pointed the way.

After a pre-convention week of sordid chicanery, the delegates rose up on a moral issue and stopped the Taft steamroller. Five hours later, Douglas MacArthur, in an unforgettable address, diagnosed the ills of the Republic and offered a cure—the Constitution of the U.S.

[MrSlayer]

66. The Flying Fondas.

[mvd]

67. Jimmy Carter

Night, all! :hi:

[FarLeftRage]

68. On Monday, March 3rd 1958...

Teddy Roosevelt:

[RoyGBiv]

69. Coming Home ...

Five more years and another 10,000 dead ...

[Lil Missy]

70. Who the hell is Leonard Hall??

[qwertyMike]

71. I was born July 7, 1945

Nine days before the first (still incredibly secret) atomic explosion in New Mexico.
The Tme cover was pretty boring, but I found this amazing story inside:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,852344-1,00.html

Excerpt:
"The scene was Allied press headquarters in Paris on a rainy summer day. Facing the half-dozing correspondents, Lieut. Colonel John A. Keck, onetime Pittsburgh engineer and now chief of Allied technical intelligence on German weapons, began quietly: "This will make Buck Rogers seem as if he lived in the Gay '90s." He proceeded to unfold the improbable story of what German scientists were up to when V-E day interrupted them.


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At a research center in Hillersleben a group of them were solemnly laying plans for a "space station" 5,100 miles up, from which a "sun gun" would have the whole earth at its mercy. Assuming that at that height a floating structure would be beyond the pull of the earth's gravity, they proposed to build a platform for launching rockets into interstellar space and for harnessing the sun's heat. By use of a huge reflector, like a burning mirror, they calculated that enough heat could be focused on a chosen area to make an ocean boil or to burn up a city in a flash. Their sun gun could also be used, they pointed out, to produce steam and electric power at global receiving stations.

German physicists had already figured out the sun gun's necessary size (3½ sq. mi.) and composition (metallic sodium). Presumably they also had ideas about how the space station might be kept under control (it would have to revolve with the earth like a satellite) and be supplied with air for its inhabitants. Unperturbed by Allied officers' skeptical crossexamination, the Germans coolly announced they were certain the thing could be done within 50 or 100 years.

In a learned editorial the science-minded New York Times painstakingly picked flaws in the sun-gun idea, concluded austerely: "There is reason ... to believe that the rocket experts were merely dreaming over their ersatz beer." But what the Germans had already done was amazing enough.*Lieut. Colonel Keck'revealed a long list of discovered Nazi contraptions. Items:

¶J A V-2 rocket which could be fired into the air from a submarine submerged 300 feet under water.

¶A 32-inch railroad cannon, probably the biggest gun ever made (and used by the Germans at Sevastopol), which fired an 8-ton shell.

¶An antiaircraft rocket capable of exploding within ten yards of a target ten miles in the air.† (Said Lieut. Colonel Keck: the Allies expect that rockets will soon replace all other types of antiaircraft weapons.)

¶An infrared telescope sight enabling snipers to see targets at night. ¶A rocket (almost perfected) with a range of 1,200-1,800 miles. (The German scientists said they were well on the way toward a rocket that would reach the U.S. (TIME, June 25)—were sure that within a few years mail and passenger rockets would cross the Atlantic in 40 minutes.) Through a spy system, Allied officers got reports during the war by German scientific work, but there were still surprises. The scientists talked freely and most thought that Hitler had lost the war to diverting too much effort to "screwball'' weapons. Lieut. Colonel Keck and his staff, all hardheaded engineers, considered the Germans' experiments, even the sun gun, no laughing matter. Said Keck soberly: "We were impressed with their practical engineering minds and their distaste for the fantastic."

Worth a read.