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the USA.
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apply to a short piece on the back of an ad page.
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Life Magazine
January 4, 1963 : Cover - The Miracle of Greece.
Inside cover full page color Oreo cookies ad, wooden
spoon full of creamy filing. Full page Champion Spark
Plugs ad with photo of Mickey Thompson's Challenger
I, clocked at 406 mph. Mona Lisa tours the US, inspires
hairdos and parodies and awe. Prison photos smuggled
out of Cuban jail. LIFE guide to family ski vacations,
where to leave the kids, small cartoon by Elmer. The
worth of a man, great photos by Gjon Mili for Greece
feature, part I, with quotes from the philosophers,
Aristotle, Socrates, Euripides. Montgomery Clift plays
Freud in a new film. Fangs flash in an old feud - should
there be a bounty on coyotes? Miniature horses at Julio
Falabella ranch. Unusual musical combo, the Lasry-Baschet
'Structures Sonores' ensemble from France. I am an electric
eel in a pool of catfish by Timothy Green. Look what
is going on at Radcliffe - Kathy Emmet, Mai Britt hairdo,
Rosemary Blake, Cinda Stanton, Mary Lowenthal, Lawrence
Wylie, Nanno Carpenter, Paula Buckholts, Maria Livanos.
Great photo of Stan Baumgartner in the middle of a ski
jump at Boyne Mountain ski resort, Michigan. Full page
color Marlboro cigarette ad with Paul Hornung, Green
Bay football player.
G - $15 
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Magazine January 11, 1963 : Cover - Ann-Margaret
dancing in a wild pink outfit. US leaders tackle a vexing
problem - how to reduce your tax bite. Page and a half
foldout color Rambler ad for the "Going Places"
giveaway, coupons with individual serial numbers, "you
may have already won!" Full page Maytag washer
ad features Ray Crookston family of 16 from Provo, Utah.
Glow from Detroit - biggest year in cars since 1955.
Ferocious cold spell seals the Northeast in ice and
a strikebound port in woe, with great photo of Henry
Gagnon of Central Falls, Rhode Island and gruesome photo
of men chipping body of Hugh Reid out of lifeboat. Orphaned
brothers and sisters get a mom and dad, Donald and Jean
Meyers of Charlotte, North Carolina adopt Walter Baker
children. Advances with laser beams, photos by Fritz
Goro, research underway for uses in biology, radar,
satellite tracking, weapons, and communications. Dr.
Seagrave, Burma surgeon. Best dressed for 1963, includes
Jackie Kennedy, Gloria Vanderbilt, Mrs. Frederick Eberstadt,
daughter of Ogden Nash. Henry Makow of Attawa, Canada
is 11-year-old syndicated advice columnist. Phyllis
Curtin, opera star. Crazy two-wheel driver, Jean Sunny.
Full page color Friskies cat food ad with two adorable
kittens licking their lips. Great full page color Pontiac
ad with maroon car and night scene. Fight to save eagle
and polar bear from extinction.
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Life Magazine
January 18, 1963 : Cover - Greece - Part II -
Myths, Gods and Heros, cover painting of the Trojan
Horse by Eugene Berman. Katanga in shambles - Congo
violence. LIFE guide to genealogy hunting. Full page
color Alcoa ad announcing "the newest thing in
beer cans," aluminum. Congress open - Ted Kennedy.
Mona Lisa makes her US debut with Jacqueline Kennedy
and Andre Malraux. New York newspaper strike still going
string. Harry Levinson buys the Idols Eye diamond 70.20
carats for $375,000. John Apel lives in a plastic tent
because of Cystic Fibrosis. Greece Gods and Myths -
paintings by Eugene Berman, drawings by Arno. Homer's
wiley 10 year Odyssey. Oliver Twist musical with Clive
Revill. Marcello Mastroianni Italian move star and unlikely
heartthrob. Full page color ad for the Compact Dodge
Dart convertible, in red, of course. Saunas - a hot
fad in the US and Finland. Three daughters of Charlie
Chaplin prepare to ski at Crans sur Sierre, Switzerland.
Dog team fun in Aspen - Lynn Bourland and Alan Mace.
Full page cartoon style ad for General Electric lightbulbs
features Mister Magoo. Full page Columbia Records ad
with small photos of Anita Bryant, Mahalia Jackson,
the New Christy Minstrels, Johnny Cash, and more.
VG - $32
Life Magazine January
25, 1963 : Fold-out Cover - Vietnamese prisoners
in boat - In Mekong Delta, Vietnam troops take communist
prisoners to headquarters. In color, the vicious fighting
in Vietnam. Two page Standard Oil ad, Americana series,
The Alamo. Full page Hoover ad with photo of the original
1908 model suction sweeper. How Joe Kennedy amassed
his fortune. Why not be a cyborg? - special report by
Jot Neri, cartoon0style illustration by Huehnergarth.
Governor Scranton's gala debut in Pennsylvania. A New
York judge upholds pretty girls' privilege of dressing
like bunnies, Playboy club in New York. Two miniature
paintings by Antonio Pollaiuolo, stolen by Nazis, turn
up in California with waiter Johann Meindl, other works
still missing. A hippo in drama school, Lutz Ruhe trains
Sam the hippo for a movie career. Princess Grace shows
off Monaco. Instant color pictures - a new feat by Polaroid,
Edwin J. Land perfects his surprising Land Camera, film
goes on sale for the first time next week, photos of
lab tech Kathy Novy of Cambridge. Painters and angry
poets join a growing cult which enshrines Marilyn Monroe,
James Rosenquist, Derek Marlowe, Pauline Boty, Norman
Rosten. Brief article about Marilyn's heirs, Lee Strasburg,
May Reis, Bernice Miracle, Mrs. Michael Chekhov. Full
page color Friskies dog food ad, new texture doesn't
stick to the spoon.
F (Generally G, but cover loose, split along
spine, taped there) - $9
Life Magazine January
28, 1963 : INTERNATIONAL
EDITION : Cover - The Sea, Paradise Island (different
photo than LIFE December 21, 1962) - 64 color pages
with articles by Romain Gary, James Michener, Eugene
Burdick. Special Double
Issue on the Sea. The Sea photo gallery by Leonard
McCombe - Cape Hatteras, Straits of Magellan, Fijis,
Inland sea Japan, Cape Wrath Scotland, Manila Harbor,
Portuguese doryman in Grand Banks (boat is S. Jacinto),
more. Two page color ad for Greece, girls laying in
sun on beach. Two page color Cinzano Bianco ad with
art of St. Mark's square in Venice. Ship flips for science
- Flip research vessel. Mining the undersea wealth,
and tiny submarines, Perry Cubmarine, Sea Tow, Aerojet
General, Loral Electronics, more. Deep sea diving and
death, Peter Small, Hannes Keller. Bad seamanship and
the police who punish them. Norsemen wrest a living
from the sea, Lofoten Islands, NOrway, Knut Langbakk,
Henninsgvaer, Vaeroy, Bjarne Andreassen, Helge Mjannes,
Grete Lisbeth Pedersen, photos by Howard Sochurek. Soviets
try to take over the straits throughout the world by
James D. Hittle. Adventures of men and their ships by
James A. Michener. Portfolio of great sea art. A boy
and his ship by Bill Eppridge. Patterns of Oil Tanker
trade. Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company,
P & O, liner Canberra. Great photo of cruise ship
Oriana in the Suez Canal, more of shipping around the
world. Cruis guide. Yankee harpooner Jim Skakel gets
a whale, 8 pages of photos. Mighty Shipping Magnates
- Anders Jahre, Kaneo Niwa, Stavros Niarchos, Jakob
Isbrandtsen, Erling Naess. An enchanted island - Moorea
in Polynesia, Hugh Kelley, Florida Wong, Willy Lowgreen.
International Editions are
rarely found.
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Life Magazine February
1, 1963 : Cover - Alfred Hitchcock with three
ravens, his movie “The Birds.” SPECIAL ISSUE
: The new Europe and its critical hour, the mood from
London to Moscow. "The Hipsters' View of Washington'"
hip words to describe the political scene, JFK is The
Man, Bobby & Teddy are The Bruzz, the Secret Service
is The Fuzz. Top puppeteering team, Bil and Cora Baird,
putting finishing touches on Broadway show "Man
in the Moon." Our horse-happy writer's delirious
$61,908 day at the races. Ladies on the Volkswagon line
- boys like to tease them. Elegant Spanish décor,
lacy ironwork, rich tapestries, furniture for the American
home. Baroness Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, her art
and her four-year-old daughter on skis at St. Moritz.
Three page Pure-Pak ad for plastic instead of waxed
milk cartons. Anthony Quinn, hottest actor around. Nice
full page color Oldsmobile car ad with silver 98 luxury
sedan at night. Princess Irene Galitzine sets a style.
Full page color Lucky Strike cigarettes ad with skier.
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Life Magazine February
8, 1963 : Cover - Statue of muse of tragedy with
a theatrical mask. Greece, Part 3 - soaring thought,
stark drama. 1963 - most savage winter of the century, photos
from England, Bavaria, Paris, Lake Superior, South Dakota,
Henderson New York, Japan, Moscow. Old grad paratrooper,
Elliott Chaze returns to Fort Benning, Georgia. We call on
Cuba, LIFE photographer and correspondent get unexpected
tour of Havana courtesy of Castro . South Carolina's Clemson
College integrates. Iran's Shah seeks and gets public support.
Robert Frost is dead - some last stanzas. Dead man at the
controls, Lester Peterson has to land a plane when the pilot
Edgar Van Keuren dies, passengers Lester Laun and John Pawlack.
Antiradiation candy, Dr. Michael Ash of Sussex, England invents
iodine, strontium and potassium lollipops to counter growing
radiation threat throughout the world. Dr. Jonas Salk's splendid
adventure, unique institute for biological studies. Gregory
Peck and the child actors of "To Kill a Mockingbird," Mary
Badham, Phillip Alford. Young actors winning kudos, Janet
Margolin, Keir Dullea, Patricia Gozzi. Walt Schoenknecht
breaks ski tradition at Mt. Snow. The fabulous Lilly dress.
Inside back cover full page color Canadian club adventure
ad, Eric Haller tries a mid-air somersault on skis.
G - $15
Life Magazine February
15, 1963 : Cover - men moving casket. Rare photographs
and new found facts tell the incredible story of What
happened to Lincoln's body, photos of exhumation. Her
unexpected majesty - a special report on what happens
when the queen just pops in. Boston's terror, series
of sex stranglings, photos by Arthur Rickerby. Epic
climbing feat, North wall of Great Lavaredo, 17 day
winter ascent by Peter Siegert, Kauschke, and Uhner.
Canada in a rage over US nuclear warheads on Canadian
soil. Young piano virtuosos substitutes for a star and
rocks the concert hall, Andre Watts. "Revival of
the Throb and Sob," sentimental paintings back
in the limelight in London and New York. An architect's
home, Eliot Noyes, photos by George Silk, Calder sculpture,
Picasso vase, and all the kids practice music. Cassius
Clay, his poem "I'm the greatest," and he's
after Sonny Liston, too. New facts about the risks of
blood transfusions. National Research Corporation of
Cambridge, Massachusetts, produces finest-ever metal
powder, a billion particles on the head of a pin, to
help fabricate better alloys. Nice two page color General
Motors ad with white Bonneville convertible car. Full
page Columbia Records ad with small photos of Leonard
Bernstein, Doris Day, Ray Conniff, Frankie Laine and
more.
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Life Magazine February
22, 1963 : Cover - the Kessler twins, very cute in
sequins and plumes! The big walk - can you do 50 miles? A
friendly office joke gets out a hand, and now everyone's
tromping along, Boy Scout Dave Beck paced the trek from Dodgeville,
Wisconsin to Dubque, Iowa; Wendy Williams of Redwood, California
gives up at 38 miles. Three page color Ford ad, 63 1/2 models
of Super Torque, Falcon Sprint, Fairlane Sports Coupe. Poignant
white lie to Isabella and Joseph Posa, who do not realize
that their son Eugene Posa is dead. Murder of Iraq's despot,
Kassem falls and Nasser rides high. A deformed Thalidomide
baby acquires plastic hands, Richard Satherley. Related abortion
of Sherri Finkbine due to sleeping drug. 150,000 Swiss take
to the ice. Theater, Sir John Gielgud in The School for Scandal.
Christine Kaufmann becomes Mrs. Tony Curtis. New Fiber Glass
pole vaulting pole, controversy over its bendability. Folk
art sets off new US fashions. Carol Burnett scores with her
funny face and talents. Watch out for the Dyna-soar, space
glider, pilots in training Milton Thompson, William Knight,
Russell Rogers, Henry Gorndon, James Wood, Albert Crews,
all stationed at Edwards AFB, California. Full page color
Camel ad on back cover with Parachutist Jim Arender.
VG - $25
G - $15
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Life Magazine March
1, 1963 : Cover - Green snake rises up and faces
the camera. Fearsome, fascinating world of snakes and
why they scare you, photo essay by Nina Leen, great
pictures of African egg-eating snake doing its thing,
Pacific rattler is eaten by a King snake. Hot war alarm
bell in the arctic, weird eyes and ears keep watch for
us against Russian rockets, Camp tuto in Greenland,
Goose Air Base in Labrador, Dye Main DEW Line station.
Momentary millionaire, Stanley Karnow. Full page Bell
Telephone System ad touts their support of first statewide
closed circuit educational television system in South
Carolina. Venezuela's pro-US president Betancourt comes
calling. Miners brawl over disputed pay dirt, in Utah's
Topaz mountain area with Anaconda Corp. Mihaly Igloi's
students slaughter track records in Santa Clara, California.
Helen Gurley Brown and book “Sex and the Single
Girl.” Mortimer Caplin, internal revenue chief,
goes after the expense account. New fashion collections
put Galanos and Norell on par with any designer in the
world. Nice full page color Old Crow whiskey ad with
illustration by C. Jones of Walt Whitman receiving a
gift from Francis Wilson.
VG - $25
G (with New York extra
section) - $18
G - $15
Life Magazine March
8, 1963 : Cover - Gorgeous picture of Jean Seberg
in fancy black outfit. Stars pick their Paris spring
favorites, Sophia Loren, Ludmilla Tcherina, Romy Schneider,
more. Half page afta aftershave lotion ad features Rocky
Marciano's "Chin of Iron." Revolutionary devices
to control your Brain, Part 1, Dr. Vernon H. Mark, Dr.
B.F. Skinner, Dr. Robert S. Morison, Dr. Carl R. Rogers.
Greece Part 4 - the golden age of Athens, paintings
by Morton Roberts, Stanley Meltzoff, Daniel Schwartz,
Bert Silverman, George Ziel. Papa Doc Duvalier's tyrannical
rule of Haiti. Acoustical fox hunt - hound dog version.
Earthquake in Libya. Piano-wrecking fad. Oddity from
Menotti, opera Labyrinth. Mother Goose ski slope - Paula
Valra teacher at Mittersill, New Hampshire. College
students have too much winter, Piano Reduction Study
Group stuffs entire piano through 20 cm hole. Copyright
battle over two novels with the same thriller theme.
Decorated shades for windows, including leopard spots.
Two page Sears ad pictures world's sport leaders on
their advisory staff, including Sir Edmund Hillary,
Ted Williams, Bill Holland, Ed Lubanski and more. Very
cute cartoon-style color ad for Bell Telephone System,
little Betsy Bell sitting in her doll house.
G
- $12
Life Magazine March
15, 1963 : Cover - Fidel Castro in black and
white. Inside Castro's Cuba with photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Ad - full page for 1963 pickups. African Students hear
“Cherni Maimuni” and they leave Communist
schools by Jordan Bonfante. Ad - Full page for Wyler's
American Soups. The families of four US pilots who died
in the Bay of Pigs invasion, Pete Ray, Wade Gray, Riley
Shamburger, Albert Persons. Photos of the inside of
a cave formed by an underground atomic test. How to
use atomic blasts to clear the Panama Canal. Cathy Clark
sets out to be a nun, many striking black and white
photos of the lives of nuns by Grey Villet. Learning
to do crewel embroidery. LSD testing - The chemical
mind changers, Barbara Dunlap, Dr. B.F. Skinner. Full
page color Carnation Cottage Cheese ad, happy vegetables.
Playgrounds with a space age spin. A gay blade on K.P.,
an ice skater slices a potato - Dawn Scott and Desmond
Scott, the humorous part of this is that the potato
is already cut in half (you can see it in the photo),
Desmond only needs to hit it and it falls in two pieces.
Full page Maytag features tenth move in 11 years for
Mr. and Mrs. Hults of, well, everywhere... including
Kodiak, Alaska and Memphis, Tennessee.
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Life Magazine March
22, 1963 : Cover - Deep down patrol on a Polaris
Submarine. 1963 Fords draft in the Daytona 500 by Tom
Flahery. Polaris prowls the sea by Robert Brigham, Commander
John L., Lt. John R. Delaney, missleman Robert Steward,
Chief Jimmy Rebman, Grand Ole Opry says goodbye to four
stars - Cowboy Copas, Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins,
Jack Anglin. Full page ad for Alfred Hitchcock's "The
Birds," with Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Susanne
Pleshette, and introducing Tippi Hedren. Surface of
Venus by Mariner space probe. Two page color ad, 1963
Chevy Trucks are the New Reliable. Photo of a young
Richard Nixon at the piano. Grand Ole Opry says goodbye
to four stars who die unexpectedly in the same week:
Cowboy Copas, Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Jack Anglin.
Polaroid cameras make 50 second color a reality. Commando
Raid on Everest - Norm Hansen, Roger Hart, Hans-Peter
Duttle, Woodrow Wilson Sayre, amateurs attempt the summit.
Crackling excitement in school corridors, "team
teaching" concept at Wayland, Massachusetts High
School, photos by Cornell Capa. Full page Dr. Pepper
ad featuring Harmon by Johnny Hart. Tulane University
adds women to its swimming team - Pam Hayes and Martha
Leveritt. Full page color American Oil Company ad
featuring Barney Oldfield. Elementary students Livia
Linden and Nancy Edelman of New York's P.S. 6 create
paintings which designers convert to dresses. Doctor
flies a helicopter to his patients, Murray Markley and
Pay Hughes. Jack Lemmon by Peter Bunzel. Photo - Bear
climbs up onto bridge structure.
VG - $30
G - $20
F (Generally G, but
has minor stain at lower spine end and taped in pages
at center.) - $7
Life Magazine March
29, 1963 : Cover - Crowd waving American flags
in Costa Rica. Inside a human cell, Part 3 of a series
on the body, illustrations by Arthur Lidov. Invest in
a good crook, bail bondsmen. Full page color Cheerios
ad. JFK in Costa Rica. Mother Seton beatified, a step
nearer sainthood. Robert L. Ekelund flying a transport
plane from Hawaii to San Francisco, two engines fail
and passengers threw thousands of pounds of luggage
off to reduce fuel consumption. Cherry Scales of Jackson,
Mississippi twirls her baton in beauty pageant. Ginger
Rogers dancing at 51 on the Red Skelton show. Astounding,
huge Army vehicle 10 foot tires, 572 foot long. Baseball's
Los Angeles Angels in spring training. Nightmare rail
ride, Jim Gerace. The Hollywood western, photos of "How
the West Was Won" stars John Wayne, Gregory Peck,
Karl Malden and more. Full page color Smirnoff ad features
Robert Goulet with surreal image of a glass in a window
in his chest. New York Section,
when present, includes : Wave
of jewel robberies in midtown hotels. John Fiederlein
hit by car, includes photo of Philip Melita and John's
father William Fiederlein. Striking printers of Local
6. Glynis Johns - two page photo. Photos of actors Alan
Arkin, Vivian Blaine, Ruth Gordon, Lili Darvas, Gertrude
Berg, Howard DA Silva, Vivien Leigh in Tovarich, Byron
Mitchell. Horseracing and bill to legalize off-track
betting
VG
- $20
G - $12
F - with New York
extra section (All G, cover
VG, but center spread rough at edge) - $10
F (all
G, but 2 pages have minor margin water marks)
- $5
Life Magazine April
5, 1963 : Cover - Spartans' stand at Thermopylae,
painting by Stanley Meltzoff. Greece, part 5, the two
wars of destiny. Hot scandal brewing in Rockefeller's
New York, State liquor authority corruption. Neat full
page color Bell telephone system ad with three different
phones. Costa Rica's Mt. Irazu volcano erupts - great
photo. Hope Cooke of Manhattan weds the crown prince
of a Himalayan kingdom, Sikkim. Brooklyn girl Helen
Klaben and Mexican pilot Ralph Flores survive 49 days
in winter Yukon wilderness, Helen Klaben and Ralph Flores.
Boxer Davey Moore fights, talks to reporters, then collapses
and dies. New exhibit at the Bronx zoo features siamangs.
Garbo-inspired fashions for spring. Ernie Kovacs' widow
makes a strong push for her own career. Children's book
by Bernard Waber tells how to lay an egg. 43-year-old
White Sox pitcher Early Wynn goes for 300 victories,
baseball. Steel sculptor David Smith. Full page ad for
the movie "The Ugly American," with Marlon
Brando, Sandra Church, and more.
G - $18
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Magazine April 12, 1963 : Cover - Lost for 49
days in the Yukon in winter, Helen Klaben at the time
of her rescue. Horse player Havemann rides again by
Ernest Havemann. Air Travel's new look , TWA special
feature. Vamos! The buccaneers attack the Soviet prey,
amateur Cuban commandos, Tony Cuesta, photos by Andrew
St. George, illustration by Sanford Kossin. French coal
miners strike in Forbach. Little Harold Wilson knocks
at No. 10, Timothy Green. 34 Korean orphans sing on
seven-month concert tour of 15 countries. Two page ad
for Chevrolet Impala Sport Coupe. Lost treasures are
seen again, Hrastovlje in Istria, restoration of artworks
in Yugoslavia, photos by Sonja Bullaty and Angelo Lomeo.
US Supreme Court decides about bibles in the schools.
The phantom tax swindlers by Keith Wheeler. Hedda Hopper-
a new book. Skydiving Chute-em up, stuntman Howard Curtis
and Doyle Fields in Ripcord. Whooping Cranes with George
Douglass. Full page color Wyler's Famous American Soups
ad, proud of its sturdy stock. The
following are only in the “NY extra section”
when available : Mayor Wagner ends the New York
newspaper strike. Brooklyn's 82nd police precinct closes.
Tiffany Easter Bonnet with real eggs and a nest. Boys
fishing along the Bronx River and the Saw Mill River.
G - $30
Life Magazine April
19, 1963 : Cover - Richard Burton and Liz Taylor.
Mrs. Ernest Hemmingway's sentimental safari, return
to the Africa they both loved. Cleopatra, the most talked
about movie ever made, many photos from the set, backstage
details: $6,500 gown of pure gold, 6,000 extras and
ritual snake dancers. Full page Maytag washer ad features
Mrs. David E. Creager of Beckley, West Virginia. Special
report by Bob Buyer on his do-it-yourself attempt at
making maple sugar. The nuclear submarine Thresher goes
down in the Atlantic, 129 die in worst submarine disaster
in history. Russian poet Evgeny Evtushenko travels the
West and gets himself in a lot of trouble back home.
Circus headliner La Toria, Vicki Unus, aerialist. Funny
piece about Peter Ustinov in "Photo Finish,"
which he also wrote. Twin-ridden classroom, confusion
of trying to teach seven sets of twins, Bar Mills, Maine
with Mrs. Walter Johnson. Vaccine for Measles approved.
World of orchids in color, photos by Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Full page color 7up ad with young women in yoga postures.
Cute full page Sanforized fabric ad with photo of real
elephant in a pair of pants.
VG - $25
G - $15
Life Magazine April
26, 1963 : Cover - Jackie Kennedy on her tenth
birthday with dog Tammy. Charming album of Jackie growing
up, 8 pages of photos. First view of the Bali volcano.
Predicament of Chancellor Adenauer. Football gamblers,
pro stars Hornung and Karras are fired. Watch out for
tainted tuna, government tracks down poisonous cans.
Remarkable pictures of white kangaroos, crossbred and
inbred by Sir Edward Hallstrom in Australia. School
row in Paradise, California, teacher Virginia Franklin
tries to teach students to think for themselves by exposing
them to a variety of ideas, parents in a uproar. Rise
and shine of matinee idol Robert Goulet. Rising starlets
model in the surf: Abby Dalton, Carole Wells, cheryl
Holdridge, Sharon Farrell, Celeste Yarnall, Carol Christensen,
Asa Maynor, Ursula Andress, Dolores Faith. Lous Stern
collects the art that appears in other art, exhibition
at the Brooklyn Museum. Perils of wearing a coronet,
a provocative book about life among the British gentry.
1,300 year old Maya skeleton poses a riddle of the past.
Bridget Bardot's own bowler. full page color Campbell's
Soup ad, vegetable beef and a sandwich.
G - $38
Life Magazine May 3,
1963 : Cover - sculpture head of Alexander the Great
Conqueror. Greece, part 6. Irving Berlin's 75th birthday,
salute by Tom Prideaux. Mrs. Margaretta Fitler Murphy divorces
husband and is paired with Nelson Rockefeller (see LIFE May
17, 1963). Amazing photos of pilots in Indiana averting a
midair collision. Inside back cover full page Old Crow whiskey
ad with illustration of John James Audubon showing his sketches
to Daniel Webster by C. Jones. Princess Grace comes home
for a visit. Students mourn death of Whitney Griswold, Yale
president. Carol Lynley moves into adult roles. Sheik Shakbut,
ruler of Abu Dhabi, is world's richest man. Boston Marathon,
Ethiopians in the lead, but Belgium's Aurele Vandendriessche
wins and Francis Port, Jr. is dead last. Chaotic mismanagement
in red China. Photo essay follows path of Alexander the Great
through Afghanistan, Kandahar, Hindu Kush, Bactria by James
Burke. Genealogy is jumping, it's the season for ancestor
hunting, Carol Ronnow of Salt Lake City finds relatives in
Denmark. Dog's harrowing hairdo. Two page Tupperware ad with
photos of top 27 distributorship teams for first quarter
of 196, the Spotlight Club.
VG - $20
G - $12
F (All VG, but cover
has crease) - $5
Life Magazine May 10,
1963 : Cover - Bay of Pigs, paintings by Sanford
Kossin. Raw untold truth by men who fought there. Heartbreaking
price they paid for US miscalculations.Full page Maytag
ad with wedding photo of Mrs. A.W. Bell of Vandergrift,
Pennsylvania in 1933. Fly fisherman Peter Miller reveals
some fiendish secrets of an accomplished trout-fooler.
Big flaps over birth control, new devices fan controversy,
pill for men, IUD coils. Catholic doctor John Rock of
Boston is birth control proponent AND grandfather of
17. Marlon Brando tries to improve US image abroad.
Mme Ernest Rouart, daughter of Berthe Morisot, recalls
that all the great artists painted her and her mother:
Renoir, Degas, Manet, Cassatt. Equitation school at
Full Cry Farm, Sydney Hoyle, Jane Boleyn, Shawn Boland.
Mary Ann Sears teaches tots to swim, includes student
Tina Lang. Very funny photo of Margaret Herzog on her
wedding day with another person under her skirts.Twin
hippos born at St. Louis zoo. Nice full page color Honda
ad with Honda 50 motorcycle scooter in redwood forest.
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G - $15
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Life Magazine May 17,
1963 : Cover - Governor and new Mrs. Rockefeller,
Margaretta Murphy (see LIFE May 3, 1963). Gordon Cooper,
man for 22 orbits, prepares for launch. "Instant
arithmetic" with The Trachtenberg Speed System,
Victor and Jeremy Weingast of Newark, New Jersey. The
greats of 40 years at one fabulous party for TIME magazine
cover personalities, Gina Lollobrigida, Norman Thomas,
Olivia de Haviland, Dean Rusk, Bette Davis, many more.
Rockefellers' honeymoon. Funny story about poor boatyard
operator. The longest national highway - the Trans-Canada.
Racial hatred approaches flashpoint in Birmingham. Phyllis
Diller hits the big time. "Rocket mail," hobby
rocketeers send souvenir mail up in their craft, then
mail them via real post and create collectors' items
worth thousands. Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist, defects
from Russia. Hunt for actor to impersonate Kennedy st
skipper of PT-109. Science of household warfare, doctor
claims it's healthy. 4 photos of Mysterious
Cloud ring in Arizona, thought by some to represent
the face of Christ. Volunteer describes record-breaking
“space flight” solitary in cell which stayed
on earth, Whilden Breen, Jr. Half page afta after shave
lotion ad features Stan Musial, "Man of Steel."
Nice full page color Volkswagon ad with red van and
sailboat.
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Life Magazine May 24,
1963 : Cover Gordon Cooper in space suit before
his flight. Cooper's trip and Einstein's theory, his
flight heralds a fantastic era of shrinking time. Full
page Maytag washer ad features 35 women of Delta Delta
Delta sorority at the State University of Iowa. Tribulations
of John Acoca, boy getting haircut. Extremist violence
in Birmingham, Alabama, James Baldwin speaks out. New
car gets something new under its hood, turbine engine
in Chrysler car. Hume Cronyn in The Miser, arts flourish
in new theater in Minneapolis. 16 pages of color photos
of surfers in Hawaii, Rick Grigg, Jose Angel, Joe Kaohi,
Greg Noll, Nick Beck. James Baldwin talks about relationships
between the races. Stirling Moss makes predictions about
Indianapolis 500 race. Roland H. Baker at Michigan
State University has do-it-yourself African elephant
skeleton to assemble. James Bond makes his movie debut,
Sean Connery as 007. JFK revamps White House rose garden.
Ballet team of Fonteyn and Nureyev are the hottest thing
in show biz. Two page color Ford ad with ten photos
of small boy in space suit with bubble on his head explores
the interior of the new car. Extraordinarily cute photo
of boy parking toy car between regular cars, Brian Noble.
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Life Magazine May 31,
1963 : Cover - The Coopers reunited. I was cool
too, by Trudy Cooper (Gordon Cooper's wife).. A Negro photographer
shoots from inside, the black muslims, Gordon Parks. Shahanshah
of Iran, royal reformer, 10 color pages of glorious art
treasures, story by the Shah. Elke Sommer has
Hollywood begging for more. How is it that animals can tell
time? Tracking animal movements with electronic equipment.
Adventure in a city garden, funny piece by Paul Mandel, NYC.
Funny photo of lineman on telephone pole in middle of railroad
tracks. LIFE photographer George Silk turns his cameras on
his own family and his children's tendencies to keep anything
cuddly: hamsters, ducks, dogs, rabbits, cats. Curious full
page color Shu-mak-up ad for paint that goes on shoes. Full
page color Schlitz beer ad with new pop top.
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Life Magazine June
7, 1963 : Cover - Pope John 23rd. Astronaut Gordon
Cooper writes about his 22 orbit flight, photos by Cooper
from 100 miles up. What the heck is Uberbeschaftigung?
James Bell thinks JFK needs it. Clues to submarine Thresher
mystery. A bomb expert tries to defuse mailbox bomb
and it blows up, Walter Leja in Montreal - gruesome
photos. Great photos and story of Heinz Warneke's elephant
sculpture at Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, with live
elephants alongside in similar pose. World's biggest
sun scope, 500 foot tunnel - McMath Solar telescope
at Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona. Athletes, including
Maury Wills, try to improve their game through hypnotism.
Luke Halpin gets to know his new dolphin costar for
the movie "Flipper". Pope John XXIII in failing
health. Woman behind the Man of the Century, Clementine
Churchill by Jack Fishman. 57 boats start a 12-day race
and only 2 finish the Texas Water Safari, Lynn Maughmer
and Jimmy Jones. Funny photo of John McEldowney, second
baseman for Baylor University with baseball on his head.
Full page color ad for Martin Marietta PAINTS, now space-rated.
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Magazine June 14, 1963 : Cover - St. Peter's
and basilica square. Great Princes of the church, among
them the next pope. Edible spaceship. Death of Pope
John 23. Upsurge of infant beatings by parents. "Gaseous
Cassius" goes British. Dock bound atomic ship Savannah,
a national disgrace. Lunts come out of retirement for
the final offering of the US Steel Hour. Romy Schneider
returns to Vienna. Greece, part 7 - travelers' guide
to the isles. Frank Rose deals with first desegregation
of Alabama University, three Negro students will enroll
for the first time. Clementine Churchill, part 2. Tarzan
in Thailand, a changed ape man, played by Jock Mahoney,
no more Jane, no more Cheetah. Full page color Bell
Telephone ad with baby on flying carpet.
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Life Magazine June
21, 1963 : Cover - Shirley MacLaine as Irma La
Douce, super cute photo. The Profumo affair, the scandal
that has the whole world buzzing, British war minister's
affair with call girl Christine Keeler. Ireland is set
to welcome Kennedy back home. A Buddhist cremates himself,
Quang Duc in Saigon - gruesome photos. Assassin kills
a Negro leader Medgar Evers. 3,800-Mile "sea serpent,"
the U.S. end of the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable
turns up at Beach Haven, New Jersey. Cleopatra opens
to mixed reviews. Ouimet's 1913 victory that revolutionized
golf. Colossal H-Bomb hole, Atomic Energy Commission
has 12-million ton deep lab. Jacques d'Amboise, ballet
dancer. Six out of 10 who enter college quit before
they finish - why? The beach burnoose for summer smallfry
fashion. Memorial for Pope John XXIII and the beginning
of the search for the next pontiff. Happy family sailing
in Antigua, Mike Badham family on Westering. Neat two
page color Du Pont auto polish ad. Janie Albert enters
Wimbledon and is a smash hit, Tennis.
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Life Magazine June
28, 1963 : Cover - Medgar Evers' widow consoles
her son at funeral service. Soviet space girl Valentina
Tereshkova (Russian female cosmonaut) makes US men sound
stupid, while 13 American women are still waiting to
make the trip. Full page color Listerine ad shows illustrations
of 15 germs the mouthwash kills. For once, a depositor
gets something out of a banking error, Thomas Thaggard
keeps $43,000 of a mistake at Union Bank and Trust Company
in Montgomery, Alabama. Evers is buried at Arlington
as Negro anger rises across the US. Crazy early ultralight
aircraft, including Skymat. Blizzard of hail in Denver,
Tina McAllister and neighbors in 4 feet of hail. Florida
game wardens take rustle up wild pigs. Jim Fitzsimmons,
horse-trainer, puts himself out to pasture. Robert Graves
has four new books out at once. Nervous system, Part
4 of the Human body series, the nervous system, paintings
by Arthur Lidov. Margaret Bourke-White, photographer.
Vivien Leigh in a Broadway musical, tovarich. Stanley
Bleifeld, sculptor, focuses on Biblical scenes. Full
page color Bethlehem Steel ad for cans, with overhead
photo of picnickers at the beach.
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the USA.
The difference is typically just a few ads, but may
apply to a short piece on the back of an ad page.
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Life Magazine July
5, 1963 : Cover - New Pope Paul VI spectacle
at the Sistine Chapel. Restaging of Picketts charge
at Gettysburg by Robert Wallace. Review of recent popes
by Robert T. Elson. Kennedy enraptures Germany and challenges
De Gaulle. Full page color Kellogg's Variety Pack ad with
fruit and milk pitcher. Murderer of Medgar Evers - Byron
de La Beckwith. Arnold Palmer gets stumped, ball lands in
a stump. Scotch guards, geese guard, Dumbarton whiskey. The
Vee-Balloon makes first ascent, is designed to be a stable
flying platform for scientific instruments. Hud, Paul Newman's
new movie about Hud Bannon, article about his marriage with
Joanne Woodward. America's great architectural heritage,
photos by Walker Evans. Restless teenagers and lax parents
are a violent threat to to suburbia by Robert Wallace. Kennedy's
Irish kin, photos by Farrell Grehan. Rachel Robinson and
Jackie Robinson raise money for civil rights. Full page
color Old Crow whiskey as with painting of Samuel Webster.
Full page "new" Little Friskies dry cat food by Carnation
ad. The
following are only in the “NY extra section”
when available : New New York Hilton opens with
dancing girls. Around the world at Jones Beach - movie
Around the World in 80 days with Guy Lombardo. Mets
fans photos.
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Life Magazine July
12, 1963 : Cover - Steve McQueen riding his motorcycle
with his wife Neile. Barry Goldwater's election campaign.
Humorous two page color Kodak film ad with improbably
pair of photos. Rio fire in a high rise, rescue and
tragedy, photos. Full page Bulova watch ad, 73 women
in towels and sunglasses. Watching the eclipse, making
a sunscope out of a box. Two page color Kodak ad on
the beach at Bermuda. Pope Paul VI crowned, nice photo
collection. Auctioneer Peter Wilson sells 19th century
paintings for $30 million in one year. Russian spies
in New York, Ivan Egorov, "Robert Baltch".
Small photo of Jim Whittaker, first American to summit
Everest, and family. Steve McQueen, "The Bad Boy's
Breakout, photos by John Dominis. Far off exiles of
Tristan - Ernest Green, Frank Glass, Mabel Lavarello,
Gertude Lavarello, Sogneas Swain, Albert Glass, Stella
Glass return from unhappy 18 months in England when
volcano threatened their community. Building New York's
Verrazano-Narrows bridge, great color photos. Old time
fiddlers contest - Russell Dille, Charlie Waer, Phil
Fregon, and Mannie Shaw. full page color Texaco ad,
family returning to their car at sunset on the beach.
The following are only in the
"NY extra section" when available : Brooklyn
Public library eyes its book crooks, tries to stop book
theft. Montauk archers kill sharks with their bows.
New York 4th of July beach scene - very crowded. Photo
of Coney Island Cyclone.
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19, 1963 : Cover - Greek sculpture. Greece, final
installment, the art, foldout photo of the Parthenon
frieze,vases, olive trees, more. Automation's really
here, jobs go scarce, Frank Martoglio at Republic Aviation,
William C. Jensen at General Dynamics Corp, Nicola Yanoff
studies to qualify for a new job. Full page color Western
Auto ad for Wizard freezer. Verdict that outraged a
city, five die but judge's son goes free : Gareth Martinis.
Full page Maytag washer and dryer ad features some of
the tenants of the Stadium Court Apartments in Portland,
Oregon. Creative camping, expert at getting other outdoorsmen
to do the work tells how. Racial hatred in the north,
gross stuff in New York. Full page color New York Life
ad has stack of state puzzle pieces. Ali Osdemir, Turkish
highwayman. Wick Peth, rodeo clown. Judy Garland and
Mickey Rooney together again for Garland's new TV series.
Private River boat, Eddie Jones.The strange film "8
1/2" by Fellini. Funny photo of Danish woman standing
in a sea of parked bicycles, trying to find her own.
Cute half-page Wyler's lemonade mix ad with cartoon
illustration of two tots at lemonade stand.
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Life Magazine July
26, 1963 : Cover - Young actress Tuesday Weld
changes her image. Towns 30 miles apart meet race crisis,
one is at war (Cambridge, Maryland), one is at peace
(Salisbury, Maryland). The 100 gaudy years at Saratoga
resort. Two page color American Oil Company ad from
the Americana series, Lincoln-Douglas debates, illustration
by H. Charles McBarron. End of the Texas towers, farewell
to the iron bastards … Air Force radar towers
in the Gulf. Giants' Alvin Dark gets mad when pitchers
bean his batters. Fountain sculpture in Seattle. Recipient
of lung transplant dies, but surgery takes a leap forward,
Regis Sismour and Doctors Magovern and Yates. Marvella
Bayh and life in Washington D.C. Amazing Hugo Gernsback
and his space age scientific prophecies. Outlandish
and gaudy grand motels of America. Famous stage couple,
the Lunts, at their Wisconsin home. Cute photo of little
girls inspecting a ventilation grate in art gallery
(instead of art) - San Francisco Museum of Art. full
page color Ethyl Corporation ad encourages Americans
to take their families on the road for hands-on education.
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Magazine August 2, 1963 : Cover
- Dodgers' Sandy Koufax, baseball - The mostest pitcher
- most wins, most shutouts, most strike-outs. Solar
Eclipse in color, great time lapse shot of stages of
eclipse in California. Very pure looking full page color
Lux soap ad. Three old folks charged with kidnapping
ducks, Stephen Newrocky, Raymond Lopez, Mrs. Venceslava
Hanush, Los Angeles. Back page color Coca-Cola ad with
berries, mint, and lime in ice cubes. Vietnam's buddhists
fight Diem regime with sit-downs and suicides. Moscow
Track meet, US women get trounced. Sonny Liston's secret
weapon, the whammy - this is a great close-up photo
of his face, boxing. Success with a sewed-on arm, Everett
Knowles, Jr. in Somerville, Massachusetts. Humpback
whales, spectacular color photos of whales breaching,
whales underwater. Photo essay with quotes from his
books, William Faulkner's Mississippi by Martin Dain.
Photo essay of European garden tour by Carlo Bavagnoli.
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Life Magazine
August 9, 1963 : Cover - Harriman and Khrushchev
chat after treaty. Threshing out the treaty, with Harriman
behind the scenes in Moscow. Full page color Hunt's
catsup ad with a yummy "cheese-stuffed burger and
recipe. Lives the earthquake missed, Skoplje Yugoslavia
including story of Serge and Suzanne Jacquemart of Belgium.
Cute full page Volkswagen ad with bug. 100 year-old
parrot with dock-walloper's vocabulary ties up the best
property in town, Victoria, British Columbia. US vs
Russia in Afghanistan - new turn in cold war. Mickey
Mantle pulls up lame again. Paris commemorates 800th
anniversary of Notre Dame. Broadway play “Never
too late” - a million dollar headache. Burke Marshall,
racial trouble shooter. Bachrach family of presidential
photographers commemorated. Paul Mellon collection of
English art, 8 pages of color photos. Venomous insect
stings. Lively look for lingerie. Bobby Kennedy's son
is christened. Nice full page color Camel ad on back
cover with scuba diver Bill Bunton. Cute full page Hoover
vacuum cleaner ad.
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Life Magazine
August 16, 1963 : Cover - Lighted
window, hospital vigil over the Kennedy Baby, compassionate
nation watched. Congress fattens up the pork barrel
- billions thrown away and it's your money, cartoon-style
illustrations by Erdoes. Among the "porky" projects, the
Arkansas River Navigation Project, dikes intended to gather
silt and reroute the river, Upper Colorado River Project,
and the Rural Electrification Administration. Military prison
play, The Brig, is a shocker. Full page color Golbey's Gin
ad with color illustration of Portofino by Arthur Taylor.
Campus styles, Picasso on sweaters, vinyl jackets, and fake
fur. Mensa - high I.Q. fraternity. Nuclear test-ban. Jonathan
Miller - star of "Beyond
the Fringe." Gordon
Parks tells how it feels to be black through his novel "The
Learning Tree," and the photos of this essay, 8 pages in
color. Also an autobiographical essay. Liz Taylor shows off
London. Funny picture of goat standing on back of cow. Full
page Bell Telephone System ad with 12 photos of people using
public phones everywhere .
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Life Magazine
August 23, 1963 : Cover - Frank Sinatra with
son Frank Sinatra, Jr.in tuxedos. Scotland Yard thriller
- the $7 million train heist, on the robbers' trail. Master
plan for the Negro march on the capital. Lincoln, too,
lost a son - Willie who died in the White House. Full
page color Canadian Club adventure series, scuba-jumping
for treasure. Full page Maytag washer ad from the Broadview
Farm Summer Camp. New tariffs keep turkeys and chickens
from going to Europe. Tame leopard attacks Jean Lester.
Help for the brain injured, Doctors Carl Delacato and
Glenn Doman, includes patient Mary Pat Kouba. Photo of
Robert Goulet and his bride Carol Lawrence dancing at
their wedding. Alfred Eisenstaedt's photos, twelve pages
of Martha's Vineyard. Charming Photo essay on the Italian
man. Barbie Doll's huge success, two page color photo
of wardrobe. Funny photo of Gloria Good who has hit Farmer
Ray Watson's water tank in Liberal, Kansas. Full page
Champion spark plug ad, Parnelli Jones wins the Indy 500.
Cute full page color Coca-Cola ad on back cover with forlorn
sheepdog getting a bath.
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Life Magazine August
30, 1963 : Cover - Elsa Martinelli in new fashion
by Chanel. New fashions from Paris in color. Death throes
of the Gallo mob, US gangland turmoil, mafia. Adventures
of Air Opium - fliers in the Far East make big but precarious
profits smuggling drugs. Billy Graham in Los Angeles.
Page-plus Best Foods Mayonnaise ad has tuna salad in the
shape of a fish. Small photo of Victor Borge and a piano
on the U.s. Capitol steps. Kathy Ellis is a new world's swimming
champ. Britain keeps train robbery suspects under wraps.
H-bomb's father agonizes over test-ban treaty. Coal miners
trapped, three men 331 feet down near Hazleton, Pennsylvania,
including David Fellin, Henry Throne, Louis Bova. New film,
The Haunting, is scary business, Julie Harris and Claire
Bloom. Liechtenstein's art collection turned into thriving
stamp business, 8 pages of color photos of paintings and
the stamps that came from them. Hitachi, Japan's greatest
manufacturer - photo essay. Hilton sets up hotels in 19 countries,
American outposts. Dick Dale, king of surfing music. Full
page color Wear-Dated ad features Tony and Anthony Burgio
of New York City's Victory Market.
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Magazine September 6, 1963 : Cover - Leaders
of the Negro march, Randolph and Rustin. Another sacrifice
by fire, flames of fury in Vietnam. Hollywood's great
enigma, Burt Lancaster. Pork lovers are no credit to
our democracy - editorial. Cute full page color Bell
Telephone System ad, cartoon-style illustration of Betsy
Bell in a tutu lecturing to a stuffed bear. Slow-poke
baseball pitchers, including Jim Bunning. Large feature
article : The Washington March, Negroes stage a mighty
protest and challenge the nation's conscience. John
Pennel sets a new world's record in the pole vault with
17 feet. Pitcher Warren Spahn makes acting debut. David
Fellin and Henry Throne are rescued from Pennsylvania
coal mine - still trying for Louis Bova. Underground
explosion traps 25 mine in potash mine near Moab, Utah
- 3,200 feet below the surface. Very attractive full
page color Royal typewriter ad. Trestle-tunnel highway
nears completion across Chesapeake Bay. Cliff jumpers
in Australia. Contessa Christina. New drug conquers
the Herpes simplex virus. Two page Sears ad announces
new kind of "gentle" honey-bee, the Midnite,
available for purchase next spring.
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September 13, 1963 : Cover -
Natela Gugulashvili, schoolgirl from the village of
Vazisubani. Special issue - In this year of change,
a long visit with the Soviet people. Soviet puppeteers.
First woman cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova goes home to
Yaroslavl. Two page color Shell ad celebrates Leeuwenhoek's
microscope and supporting education. LIFE guide: How to Visit
the Soviet Union. Photo essay by Stan Wayman, sights on a
10,000-mile trip. Moscow builds 115,000 prefab apartments
in a year, 315 move in every day. Soviet fishermen reel in
U.S. Flier near Cape Cod and record the rescue, Hugh Lavallee.
Portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh takes pictures of the
Soviet top, Nikita and Nina Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Voronov,
Kosygin more. Meet the Lozovans of Moscow. Moffetts take
a trip around the country, LIFE editor leaves his kids in
Soviet summer camp and hits the road. Color photos of regional
food specialties. Great photo of Kasakh fur hunter with golden
eagle on fist. Two page color Standard Oil ad, Americana
series, illustration of Oklahoma Land Rush.
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spine section front and back (2" high x 2.5"
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Magazine September 20, 1963
: Cover - US team climbs toward summit of Everest. Booming
death business under fire. Long feature article : Mass
conquest of Everest, includes William Unsoeld, great
color photos of different stages of the climb, Jim Whittaker,
Nawang Gombu, Tom Hornbein, Barry Bishop, and Lute Jerstad.
Loch Ness secret solved? - new film. Young guests at
a Wanamaker debut make shambles of a house their host
provided. Vietnam's Nhus resist US efforts to kick them
out of power . Quintuplets in Venezuela, Ines and Efren
Prieto. A fifth of Humlikon, Switzerland dies in a single
air crash. Syncom settles in orbit, satellite orbits
without going around earth - geosynchronous. Really
cute full page color Volkswagon ad with van next to
bus. Food shaped crockery. Mary McCarthy, novelist-critic.
Osuna and Bueno win US Tennis at Forest Hills. Barbra
Streisand's success. Bizarre hot rods, racing autos.
Mountbatten's Irish castle. Two page black and green
Chevrolet truck ad, line illustration of trucks lined
up on football field.
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Life Magazine September
27, 1963 : Fold-out Cover - The new astronauts
practice weightlessness in vomit comet, fold-out cover,
Frank Borman, Thomas Stafford and James Lovell. Amazing
three page foldout color Ford ad with red Ford Galaxie
500. Railroad firemen in the old days. New astronauts
in training, large feature article, great photos of
astronauts learning to eat in weightless state, nine
current astronauts: James Lovell Jr., James McDivitt,
Charles Conrad Jr., Elliott See Jr., Thomas Stafford,
Edward White II, John Young, Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman,
photos by Ralph Morse. Astronauts write about themselves.
Dakota quintuplets, Andrew and Mary Ann Fischer in Aberdeen,
South Dakota - first US quints. Malaysia's shaky start,
newest nation. Birmingham bombing - White southerner's
great speech blames bigotry for the death of four girls
and the blinding of another. Komodos in San Diego zoo.
High School Years series, Part 1, photos by Farrell
Grehan. Frank Sinatra vs. Nevada over mafia boss Sam
Giancana . Boxer Alejandro Lavorante living in a coma.
Doris Day scores again. Lady Bugs convention, Seattle
- they work with hospitalized US veterans. Half-page
color Benjamin Moore paints ad with little pictogram
puzzle. Two page color '64 Studebaker ad, bright red
and different by design.
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Life Magazine October
4, 1963 : Cover - the mysterious DNA molecule.
Scientists close in on the secret of Life, model-maker Ted
Klotz builds a beautiful model of DNA strand for article's
illustrations. Full page color Avon for Men ad introduces
Tribute line. Jackie Robinson scouts the World Series and
gives advice, photos of Koufax, Whitey Ford, more. Coastguard
Cutter 322 tears up Provincetown harbor in a storm. Did Roy
Cohn lie? - McCarthy's investigator charged. Shipwreck of
Soviet wheat. Fischer quints are doing just fine. Sweden's
princess enrolls at Radcliffe. Soap opera drama heats up
between Richard Burton, Liz Taylor, and Burton's wife Sybil.
New York Philharmonic plays in Lincoln Center Hall with better
sound. Krebiozen answer - government acts in a drug controversy.
Margaret Rutherford at 71. Whitney Darrow Jr.'s funny book
on Freud. DNA. Lindbergh and rocketry, he was silent partner
of American space pioneer, Dr. Robert H. Goddard. Rudi Gernreich
wins fashion award. Two page color Ford ad has Charlie Brown
and Linus in corner Peanuts strip. "My Fair Lady" is first
Broadway musical in Japan, with Enry Shiggins and Eriza.
"A Child's Guide to Freud," by Louise Armstrong and illustrated
by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Full page color Ethyl Corporation
ad with great photo of child looking up at enormous trees
in Sequoia National Park. Clever full page color Volkswagen
bug ad, to make a '54 look like a '64 just paint it!
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Life Magazine October
11, 1963 : Cover - Mme Nhu and her daughter Le
Thuy. McNamara's Mission: Mme. Nhu on the road, Vietnam
Climax. The 117-day zero-calorie diet, 315-pound Elaine
Johnson submits to extreme measures to lose weight at
Wadsworth hospital, eating nothing and learning more
about her emotional relationship to food. Brave men
in a hole try to keep crippled Atlas missile from blowing
up, Albany complex, Texas. US Wheat for Russia? US grain
farmers comment, including Carroll Lisco of Bennett,
Colorado, Jay Swisher of Groton, South Dakota, and Bob
Rowland of Garden City, Kansas. South's terror bombers,
Nacirema. Tonga's round stamps, really pretty color
photo of stamps and coins. Solid gasoline bricks. Udall
climbs Kilimanjaro. High School Years, Part 2 - the
golden girl, Jill Dinwiddie of Pacific Grove High, California,
George Savo. Two page color Green Giant ad promotes
free record for pea-pickers with Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Theft of Greek Nike jewel from Boston Museum of Fine
Arts. Stan Musial's last day, baseball. Moon flight
with Russians - engineer shows how joint trip can be
done. Walter Hard, Vermont poet. Susannah York and Albert
Finney in "Tom Jones," three pages of color
photos. Indoor B•B gun shooting is national favorite,
Charles Crowe, Mark Crowe, George Kennedy, Jeff Prince
in Webster Groves, Missouri. Full page Capitol Records
as for Jackie Gleason albums.
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October 18, 1963 : Cover - Russian royal
family. Case of the new Anastasia - is a lady from Chicago
the Czar's daughter? Hurricane Flora devastates Haiti
and Cuba. Full page Maytag ad features the 14 mothers,
daughters, aunts and cousins and their respective members
of the Griego clan of Newburgh, New York. Two page color
Olin-Matheson ad for Winchester rifles with photo of
Henry Ford in "How the West Was Won." Photo
of JFK signing the test ban treaty with 17 members of
Administration and Senate looking on. Bobby Kennedy.
Hair curlers. Charlie McCarthy turns 40. Dramatic rescue
of an elderly couple trapped in their car in the River
Dee. The construction of the NORAD command post underground
near Colorado Springs, Colorado. Boston Museum buys
a Flemish triptych of the martyrdom of St. Hippolytus.
Small but excellent Soviet circus visits the US. British
Chelsea look new fashions. New Pope seeks to reform
and modernize the Catholic Church. TV tries to bring
back the "honest" quiz show. Dowsers convention
in Danville, Vermont. Tony Randall's many faces are
make-up masterpieces. Historians Will and Ariel Durant
release new book, "The Age of Louis XIV."
Full page color Campbell's soup ad, turkey noodle is
the soup of the month.
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Magazine October 25, 1963 : Cover - Yvette Mimieux
with surfboard, learns to surf for Dr. Kildare. Full
story of Italy's dam disaster, the night a valley drowned
in its sleep, Vaiont Dam above Longarone, Italy. “Lord
of the Flies” movie, kid stars Kent Fletcher,
John Stableford, David St. Clair, Tom chapin, Jeremy
Willis, James Aubrey. Full page color AC Spark Plug
ad, enormous broken eggshell over new GM cars. Terror
on a flimsy raft, Ken Crosby, Jim Dumas, Ann Dumas off
Florida. Cleveland's full back, Jim Brown, football.
Aberdeen's quintuplets are one month old, Fischer family
of Aberdeen, South Dakota. Kids' drawings of what happiness
is, as sent to Charles Schultz, Peanuts creator. Frank
Ellis, legless, fights to fly - takes on whole Navy.
Africa's animals in peril from drought, poaching. International
comeback of sculptor Rodin. Marietta Tree, United Nations
delegate. Sweet full page Bell Telephone ad, soft image
of a mother, baby, and young son in rocking chair. Bulky
sweaters are the fashion statement for fall, but sweaters
built for two.
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Life Magazine November
1, 1963 : Cover - Senator Goldwater and horse
Sunny. Goldwater, the Arizonan, rides east. India under
the gun, awaits Red China's next move. Full page Maytag
ad with the HUGE Ray Crookston family of Provo, Utah.
Cute half page color Bobbie Brooks ski outfit ad. Operation
Big-lift - the 2nd Armored Division vaults the Atlantic
to prove that the US military can move in a hurry. More
photos of devastation of Hurricane Flora in Cuba. NASA's
14 new astronauts are a highly educated brain trust.
New Initial Teaching Alphabet system gets kids reading
earlier, students Diana Montisenos and Catherine Kimock
in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Gerald Staley in England.
Palm Springs installs a new tramway in Chino Canyon.
Ernst Haas, photographer, recreates boyhood of author
James Agee. Verdict of murder of 8-year-old Linda Epping
against a quack doctor, Marvin Phillips. Undercover
agents crack down on medical frauds, Antone Dietemann,
Ruth Drown. Scotsman Jimmy Clark is a farmer and the
world's best auto racing driver. Betty Friedan attacks
the “feminine mystique.” Helen Hayes has
an auction, several photos of her glamorous belongings
going under the gavel for charity. Full page color Canadian
Club whiskey adventure series ad, crack-the-whip on
skis towed by a skoot sled.
G - $15
F (All G, but cover faintly marked) - $7
Life Magazine November
8, 1963 : Cover - Bobby Baker at a Washington
masquerade party. Bobby Baker bombshell - capital buzzes
over stories of misconduct in high places.Two page Kleenex
tissues ad, with stills from TV commercial featuring
trumpeter Harry James and singer Peggy Taylor. Two page
color ad for Chrysler Corporation warranty shows car
parts painted in orange, sky blue, and olive green.
Morocco and Algeria fight. Sir Alec Douglas-Home renounces
his title of Lord Home and seeks a seat in Britain's
House of Commons. Grand Jury investigates wild party
that wrecked Southampton mansion, Fernanda Wetherill
(See also September 20, 1963). Giants bounce back after
LIFE magazine article about the Browns, football. School
prayer continues as North Brookfield, Massachusetts
ignores the Supreme Court. Fashions for bowling, skirts,
tights, and knickers, of course. Human body series,
part 5 - chemical balances, illustrations by Arthur
Lidov. New retirement towns, photo essay by Bill Ray,
great photos of seniors in chorus line and riding bicycles
(trikes), Harper Perry, Mary and Michael Hutchinson,
Mary Plaskett, Jessie Sullivan, Ingrid Gunderson, Louise
Rich, Dorrie Walthery, Mary Riley, Adele White, Genevieve
Daugherty, Henry McKinley, and others. Hunting Grizzlies
with bow and arrow. Biggest radio telescope, Puerto
Rico. Jill St. John, actress with a 160 IQ. Football
playing brothers Gogolak. full page color Budweiser
ad of three guys examining a pool shot. Full page color
Chesterfield cigarettes ad with rock climbing in Cheyenne
Canyon, Colorado.
VG - $27
G - $17
Life Magazine November
15, 1963 : Cover - Vietnam. Vietnam - the coup
in pictures. 100 years later, the real story of the
Gettysburg address, Lincoln's “Failure.”
US slows down Taiwan publishing racket. Cute two page
color Ken-L Ration dog food ad with enormous cartoony
dog. Disaster at Indianapolis, explosion kills 60, Fairgrounds
Coliseum during Holiday on Ice show. Miss Teenage America,
Judy Doll. Wedding of the Cosmonauts. A record corn
harvest requires storage right smack in the middle of
the street in Hannibal, Missouri. Physicist Maria Mayer
wins the Nobel Prize. Peewee Football grows and so do
the pressures, Seth Schermerhorn and Sharon Karley of
Gardena, California, rich Constantino of Torrance, California.
Rare white thoroughbred horse. Agnes de Mille, dancer
and choreographer. Yale's new rare book skyscraper inside
library. French specialists devise way to separate papyrus
wrapped on mummys to read the fragments. Eastern Europe
in photos by Paul Schutzer, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia,
Bulgaria, and Romania. St. Louis ladies dress up. Two
page color Westinghouse ad shows radios and record players,
and dance steps for each. Must be almost Thanksgiving,
full page color Carnation evaporated milk ad with pumpkin
pie. May include a "BARmate" pamphlet of drink
recipes. NOTE : This
issue was mis-paged at the publisher and printed without
the pages 69-80. Every issue I've checked (many!) goes
straight from 68-81, no articles are listed for these
pages, no photos are credited for these pages.
G - $12
Life Magazine November
22, 1963 : Cover - Elizabeth Ashley, Broadway. Elizabeth
Ashley with Warren Beatty, Judy Garland, others as Broadway
celebrates a great season. Full page color Campbell's ad
with one of the Campbell's kids in front of a photo of vegetables
and other soup ingredients. Sheriff Tarr and convict Donald
Carpenter in gunfight, both die. Babby Baker scandal grows.
Two page Olin-Matheison ad with Jonah Jones and his trumpet.
Northern Illinois' George Bork is best college football passer.
Russia arrests Yale professor as spy, Frederick Barghoorn.
Donald Hornig, new Science adviser. Masks are make-up protectors,
oh PLEASE. John Huston plays Cardinal Glennon. Part 1 of
series about 1913, the last years of splendor, many photos
of historic paintings, foldout of procession of many European
royals, art and ballet break the bounds of Victoriana, GREAT
period photos. Negroes and whites head for a collision in
the North, by Theodore White, Part 1. Real-world toys for
kids, simple physics gear. The Horse of the Year, Kelso,
Ugly Iron Duckling. Quarter page ad declares "Coke" and "Coca-Cola"
are the same thing. Cute full page color Black Label beer
ad with Christmas theme.
G -
$12
Life Magazine
November 29, 1963 : Cover -
President John F. Kennedy.
1917-1963. Assassination of J.F.K. Later assassination
of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. Family photos of
Kennedys at Hyannis Port. Tarzan's paperback comeback.
Full page color Chemstrand Nylon ad, "nothing but
nylon makes you feel so female." Uh huh. Fire fighters'
tepee - portable emergency shelter for wildland firefighters.
Cute full page color Campbell's soup add, three small
children in yellow slickers and a puppy playing in a
puddle. Record Stamp price, Mauritius Island mistakes
make "cover" worth $78,400, 2 cent Hawaiian
"Missionary" stamp worth $41,000. Anthony
Newley, British actor delights US, wife is Joan Collins.
Carleen Maley Hutchins of Montclair, New Jersey builds
modern string instruments in her home. 1913, Part II,
the age of innovation. Lyndon Johnson - 36th president.
Negro in the North Part 2. Full page color Maidenform
bra ad with blonde woman on a scaffolding painting the
town red.
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Life Magazine
December 6, 1963 : Cover - JFK funeral
- Jackie with children. Ten pages of photos from the
funeral, Jackie Kennedy's arrangements, Johnson takes
over. Officer Tippit and Assassin Oswald are buried
also. Kennedy tributes around the world. Terror in a
jetliner by Carol Miller, 2.5 miles free fall, Eastern
Air Lines Flight 301. Full page color Manhattan shirts
ad with football player Y.A. Tittle. Conductor Thomas
Schippers is handsome maestro. Return of the Dinosaurs,
fiberglass Stegosaurus and others make their way to
New York in preparation for World's Fair. Mink-lined
bathrobe. Surgeon's dream operating room at National
Institutes of Health at Bethesda Maryland - electronic
monitors and more. James Edward Roos writes from behind
bars - convicted murderer writes novel. Ossie and Ruby
Davis, talented and busy actors. Brenda Frazier's ordeal
as the most famous debutante of all. New biography of
ballet teacher and choreographer George Ballanchine,
great photo of cat in ballet leap. Photo essay by Toni
Frissell, "Love's Warm Instant: the
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Life Magazine
December 13, 1963 : Cover - Lyndon Johnson in
the White House. Lyndon Johnson photo gallery. Johnson
gathers his cabinet by John L. Steele. Small photo of
Princess Margaret meeting the Beatles. Full page
Quality Car Care ad has little boy leaning over the
hood of his oil barrel race car while dad applies oil
to the wheels. Iceland island of Surtsey formed by a
volcano. Anti-sub rocket fired from a submarine, SUBROC.
In Aden - the Arabian Oryx makes a comeback. The crown
of Toledo Cathedral - twelve pages of the opulence and
beauty in photos by Dmitri Kessel. Remembering the Diligentis
- quintuplets grow up to have families of their own.
Oppenheimer and Teller and the Fermi award. George Abbott
and lots of stars collect for his 50th anniversary photos.
Full page color Fuller Paints ad with enormous photo
of a bee on orange flowers. Thin quarter page ad for
Charade with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. Full page
color Doubl-Glo Holiday Decorations ad with characters
from Disney's animated film "Sword in the Stone".
Full page Chesterfield Kings cigarettes ad with photos
of skiers at Stratton Mountain, Vermont.
VG - $21
G - $13
Life Magazine December
14, 1963 : JFK Special Issue - 1963 : John
F. Kennedy Memorial edition. Including his biography
and his most enduring words. It starts with the words
- The President's Empty Chair, a stark phrase. Lots
of photos, including the inside of the car with a flower
bouquet, the film frames of the shooting, sad photos
of Jackie smeared with blood, JFK as a youth, on the
campaign path, the funeral, military men around the
casket in the Great Rotunda, Arlington, Lyndon Johnson,
Lee Harvey Oswald, funeral of J. D. Tippit, much more.
See also Winter 1988
and Fall 2003 for exact reprints of this issue's cover.
Out of Stock -
Life Magazine December
20, 1963 : Cover - special double issue on The
Movies, three-panel foldout of Japan's greatest starr,
Toshiro Mifune and film crews in Toho studio. Full page
color ad for "Move Over, Darling," with Doris
Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, more. The universal
magic of movies around the world, many nice photos,
but the best is an outdoor screen in Egypt with the
Sphinx and pyramids in the background, Donald Duck in
France. Everybody wants to say it in films - Henri Langlois
and Sidney Lumet. Foofs, Spoofs are far out and big.
Hollywood efficiency photos by John Dominis. Big stars
take on old roles - movie remakes: Cary Grant as Chaplin,
Audrey Hepburn as the perilous Pauline, more. Night
of the Iguana - Richard Burton, Liz Taylor in Mismaloya.
How are things in Panicsville (MGM) by Budd Schulberg.
Ad - full page for Pontiac Bonneville. The Western Hero
as seen around the world. The agonies of war - Dr. Strangelove
and The Victors. Winning Europeans - Claudia Cardinale,
Peter O'Toole, Charles Boyer, Romy Schneider, Maximilian
Schell, Jeanne Moreau, Bibi Andersson, Sophia Loren.
The Directors. Natalie Wood feature. Asian martial arts
movies - Japan, Red China, Hong Kong, India. Back cover
Coke ad with couple and mistletoe.
G - $25
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