A project at work has me checking out the search capabilities for a few hundred newspaper & magazines’ web sites. While I was checking out the site for Time, I came across an interesting feature.
If you go to their advanced search screen and scroll down to the bottom option, you can see the Time cover from your birthday.
My birthday cover has a banner reading “Days Of Death In Viet Nam”, and a drawing of Hanoi’s Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap (who I’ve never heard of before).
Bonus – you can click on the cover to see the table of contents for the issue, and although you’d have to subscribe to the site to get full-text articles, you can still read snippets of the stories.
Did folks in 1968 really think the Bee Gees were the next Beatles? :dubious:
“The Second Term”, with a picture of Reagan being sworn-in on the cover.
Inside: As well as the cover story, articles on the Brazilian election, ex-politicians becoming lobbyists, the British pound, and reviews of Blood Simple and Centerfield.
I got the “Retreat From Integration” cover. Kinda boring. I was so hoping for some Vietnam thing.
Heh. A few years ago, for the birthday of one of my dearest friends, I combed E-bay for any (relatively memorable and recognizable) magazines that were issued when she was born. For the monthly mags, I just got the December, 1969 ones, but for the weekly ones (like TV Guide), I had to look for one that covered the exact date (Dec. 23). It was loads of fun! And I bet that I managed to collect about eight to ten good magazines . . .
She thought I was a little nutty . . . but she said that her husband and his dad got a kick out of the December 1969 issue of Playboy.
