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unusual facts about Life magazine



Agneta Eckemyr

She was photographed by Life Magazine appearing opposite the five semi finalist actors for the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Clarence Snyder

His photo of a silhouetted staircase rising inexplicably into the sky from a construction site appeared in Life magazine and was subsequently used by Frank Zappa for the cover of the album Stairway to Heaven.

David Wilkerson

He served as a pastor in small churches in Scottdale and Philipsburg in Pennsylvania, until he saw a photograph in Life Magazine in 1958 of seven teenagers who were members of a gang in New York known as "Egyptian Dragons".

Holland McCombs

Born in Martin, Tennessee, Holland McCombs became a correspondent for TIME magazine in 1935, and later bureau chief for TIME and LIFE magazine in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Dallas.

KEYJ-FM

Before 1979 however, the call letters "KEYJ" were assigned to an AM station located in Jamestown, North Dakota, broadcasting at 1400 AM, (now: "KQDJ"), which gained brief fame in 1957, when it was featured in Life Magazine, as the home of the "World's Youngest D-J"; the now world-famous Shadoe Stevens.

Lucy Goes to the Hospital

Numerous stories were published about the sex of the baby, which was kept secret until the episode aired; when Ball actually had a boy as Lucy did in the script, headlines proclaimed "Lucy sticks to script: a boy it is!" (New York Daily Mirror), "TV was right: a boy for Lucille" (New York Daily News), and "What the Script Ordered" (Life Magazine).

Manray

Manray gained national attention when it was featured in Life Magazine, and in a televised segment by talk show host Geraldo Rivera.

Marvin Breckinridge Patterson

She traveled extensively and published photographs from her world travels in magazines such as Vogue, National Geographic, Look, Life, Town & Country, and Harper's Bazaar, especially a 1932 Africa trip from Cape Town to Cairo.

Negligee

Although the evening-dresses style of nightwear made moves towards the modern negligee style—translucent bodices, lace trimming, bows, exemplified in 1941 by a photo of Rita Hayworth in Life—it was only after World War II that nightwear changed from being primarily utilitarian to being primarily sensual or even erotic; the negligee emerged strongly as a form of lingerie.

Petite bibliothèque ronde

For these peculiarities, the photographer Martine Franck made a report for Life Magazine and the Japanese Empress came to visit the library.

Rudolf Kastner

In 1960 an interview with Eichmann made by the Dutch Nazi journalist Willem Sassen in Argentina was published in Life Magazine.

The Slender Thread

The film was inspired by a Life Magazine article by Shana Alexander about actual events and partially shot on location in Seattle, Washington.

Thunderbird Field No. 1

Thunderbird Field began in 1939 as a collaborative project by Hollywood agent and producer Leland Hayward, former Air Service pilot John H. "Jack" Connelly, and Life magazine photographer John Swope, founders of Southwest Airways.


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Archie Kodros

Kodros received honorable mentions on several All-American teams and was selected as a first-team All-American by Bill Stern for Life magazine.

Dennis Muren

Standing in for an absent Ronald Lacey as Major Toht, due to their similarity in facial appearance (though great variation in height), he's the man who looks over the Life Magazine as Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) boards the passenger plane.

Dorothy McGuire

Married to Life magazine photographer John Swope (1908–1979) for more than 35 years, she had a son, photographer Mark Swope, and a daughter Topo (born 1948), who also became an actress.

Fitzhugh Green

Fitzhugh Green, Jr., (1917-1990), an executive with Vicks Chemical Company and then with Life magazine

Great Lakes Life Magazine

In its first two years, Erie Life Magazine saw an unprecedented growth, increasing distribution from only 25 small, independent retail locations to over 640 big box retail points in four states and southern Ontario including Barnes & Noble, Borders, Wegmans Food Markets, Walmart, Walgreens, Country Fair, Giant Eagle Grocery Stores, Chapters, and Indigo Books and Music.

Gregorio Prestopino

Exemplifying this style is the series of paintings done in 1957 for “Life” magazine in connection with an article on Green Haven, a New York state prison.

Hugh Turvey

Hugh’s work attracted the interest of the Science Photo Library, who encouraged him to produce an extensive series of coloured x-rays of everyday objects, which were eventually published during 1999 in the Observer’s LIFE magazine.

Jonathan Ned Katz

As a teenager, Katz was featured in Life magazine for his efforts to create a film version of Tom Sawyer.

Nate Saint

Life magazine published a 10-page photo essay on the story, which was also covered in Reader's Digest and many other publications.

Operation Auca

Life magazine covered the deaths of the men with a photo essay, including photographs by Cornell Capa and some taken by the five men before their deaths.

Paducah, Texas

Clarence Hailey Long, the original inspiration for the Marlboro Man advertising campaign stemming from a 1949 issue of LIFE magazine, was born in Paducah in 1910.

Phillip Jauregui

His legal work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and Joyce Meyer Ministries Publication, “Enjoying Everyday Life” magazine.

Richard Stolley

Stolley was an editor at Life magazine when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and met with Abraham Zapruder to get the rights for the Zapruder film which showed the details of the shooting in Dealey Plaza.

Taiwan saddled carpetshark

Compagno, Dando, & Fowler, Shark Life Magazine Sharks of the World, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 2005 ISBN 0-691-12072-2

The Society of the Spectacle

The book cover of the 1983 edition is derived from a photograph by the Life magazine photographer, J. R. Eyerman.

Tutankham

Tutankham was one of six games chosen to appear in the famous LIFE magazine photo-session conducted at Twin Galaxies in Ottumwa, Iowa, on November 7, 1982.

Ursula Thiess

After she married Georg Otto Thiess, she became Ursula Thiess and was featured in many German magazines, including several cover photos, as well as the cover of Life magazine, 1954, as an upcoming model, and she was dubbed the "most beautiful woman in the world." She left postwar Germany at the urging of Howard Hughes and signed up with RKO.