Fifty Years Ago: Friendship 7

[beamjockey]

America cheered. Here's how Boris Artzybasheff celebrated John Glenn's three orbits around the Earth.



Here Glenn, on left, helps an unidentified NASA technician invert Wally Schirra, a fellow Project Mercury astronaut. (During training in a pool, water had entered his modified Goodrich Mark IV pressure suit.)

Edited to add: Collectspace offers an interesting article on the secret space stamp of 1962.

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Amazing that it's been fifty years. I'm much too young to be this damn old.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

You and me both, buddy.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

If that was today, the cover would be "Our Love Affair With Houseplants!!"

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Those were simpler times.

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

An actual comparison of the covers for 1963 and 2011 (so there is a full year to compare) is very interesting. (Even if it does show you exaggerate a bit.)

http://www.time.com/time/coversearch

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

How much of an exaggeration? The other three world editions show the statesman profiled inside and mention how important he is to world peace just now. The one that came to us is pink and shows two puppy dogs with a headline about ANIMAL FRIENDSHIP.

Not too long ago, The Onion had a droll story about how TIME was about to launch a news magazine aimed at grown-ups.

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

So, you haven't actually looked then - preferring instead to draw a curve through a single point.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

The TIME site will indeed let me call up covers, a few at a time. Nothing there like a quick and easy comparison between years. It happens someone in this house has a subscription to TIME, so I've been seeing the covers for a while. 1963 was definitely a more serious year. Even when they show politicians now, it's in a dumb "horse race" context, or a focus on some personal quirk that they think will draw the eyeballs away from PEOPLE or whatever occupies its place by the checkout lane now.

But thanks for your sneering imputation. You are a jolly fellow.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I received your reply, Derek, and since I don't see it here I'm guessing you cancelled it after posting. Consider mine cancelled as well, in advance.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Hey... at least there still IS a Time magazine.

(For however long that's going to last.)

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope it will last. A friend of mine works there, though not in the cover department. Come to think of it, he was responsible for getting my picture into an advertising section in the July 19, 1999 Newsweek, an issue many people looked at because of the cover showing soccer player Brandi Chastain in her sports bra.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Just because: