Thursday Thirteen #125

IT HAPPENED IN MAY.
THIRTEEN CLASSIC COVERS FROM
THE TIME MAGAZINE ARCHIVES.

1923 – Franklin Roosevelt, then head of the American Construction Council,

begins to make a national name for himself

1929 -- Captivating three-year old “Pincess Lilybet” would grow up to be

the current Queen of England

1939 – Lilybet's father, King George (he of The King’s Speech)

visits the United States for the first time as monarch

1950 – Coca Cola begins its world dominance

1955 – American women discover wash’n’wear clothes

made of exotic polyester fabrics like Dacron and Orlon

1963 – Astronauts like Gordon Cooper are our heroes

1967 – Johnny Carson is the undisputed King of Late Night

1972 – Like JFK and LBJ before him, Richard Nixon

finds himself wrestling with Viet Nam

1977 – Baryshnikov takes off

1981 – Billy Martin and his fractious Oakland A’s dominate baseball

1987 – A politician finds himself enmeshed with a woman not his wife.

Imagine that!

1994 – We pause to pay tribute to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

2000 – A little Cuban boy named Elian is reunited with his dad

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