# What Was On The Cover Of "Time" When You Were Born? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 14, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234 "2005-06-14T16:27:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/41 "2005-06-14T17:42:54Z")
[George Merck](http://tinyurl.com/7tzvf), president of Merck Drugs, along with the biggest lie ever to be put on Time’s cover (well, maybe it was true then, but not now). ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/42 "2005-06-14T17:50:06Z")
So far, so good: [http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,06-12-1985,00.html](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,06-12-1985,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/43 "2005-06-14T17:51:18Z")
[Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,08-08-1963,00.html). You know, this explains a lot about my life: the attraction to Asian women, the frequent visits to Vietnamese restaurants, the crush on Kathy Sano in high school… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/44 "2005-06-14T17:59:12Z")
**Rufus**? That movie wouldn’t be the original _Planet of the Apes_, would it? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![xbuckeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9e8a1a/32.png) [@xbuckeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xbuckeye)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/45 "2005-06-14T18:01:48Z")
[apparently](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101781120,00.html) there was unrest in the middle east, taxes and government spending were too high, the two party system was collapsing, and the mood of the country was cautious, restless, and quirky. Well whad’ya know…I _was_ born yesterday! Oh yeah, and Bill Bradley was elected to his freshman senate term along with some other people I don’t recognize. ---
**Author:** ![xbuckeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9e8a1a/32.png) [@xbuckeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xbuckeye)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/46 "2005-06-14T18:05:20Z")
But [this](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101781204,00.html) is what was happening as I first gazed upon this earth. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/47 "2005-06-14T18:11:01Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > **Rufus**? That movie wouldn’t be the original _Planet of the Apes_, would it? 🙂 ::Enthusiastic applause:: Nicely done! ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/48 "2005-06-14T18:13:04Z")
[Kind of a wierd portrait of John Updike](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,27-04-1968,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/49 "2005-06-14T18:14:36Z")
Ah, I just got a picture of Bruce Springsteen that looks [suspiciously like ass.](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,28-10-1975,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/50 "2005-06-14T18:22:07Z")
[How Gay Is Gay?](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,28-04-1979,00.html) Homosexuality in America That would be pretty funny if I were either gay or a homophobe. Instead, just another slow news week 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/51 "2005-06-14T18:25:26Z")
[Katherine Hepburn](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,05-09-1952,00.html) That’s so cool… ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/52 "2005-06-14T18:31:05Z")
Wow, mine is just bo-ring. [Amateur Photographer](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101531102,00.html), with a camera bag with a film box for a neck and a camera for a head, holding a light meter and handheld flash unit in its strappy hands. And yet to this day I take crappy pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/53 "2005-06-14T18:36:30Z")
[Doctoring the Economy](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,29-01-1975,00.html) Is there a prize for Most Boring? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/54 "2005-06-14T18:42:04Z")
[Man on the Moon](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101690725,00.html) ! Most of the newspapers and magazines I have seen from my birth date feature that story, and I have always been a little secretly (and pointlessly) proud of sharing my birthday with news that significant. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/55 "2005-06-14T18:42:04Z")
Gee, mine was the same as **UncleBeer’s**. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/56 "2005-06-14T18:46:25Z")
[Radcliffe’s Mary Bunting](http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1961/1101611103_400.jpg) was on the cover. Looking inside, I see that General Maxwell Taylor has just returned from a fact-finding trip in Viet Nam and will be meeting with President Kennedy to discuss American plans in that region. I feel like I’m in the audience at a horror movie, shouting, “Don’t go inside!” On a “history repeats itself” note, there’s an article about a bunch of guys who have formed a voluntary militia they call the “Minutemen” and have started patrolling in the American southwest. ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/57 "2005-06-14T18:47:02Z")
California’s Democratic Attorney General, [Edmund ‘Pat’ Brown](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101580915,00.html). With bonus riding donkey. Neither is particularly appealing, nor, for that matter, is Time magazine. After selecting the shrub as ‘man of the year’, and doing a puff piece on ‘journalist’ Ann Coulter, I have little respect for Time. It is interesting to see just how much content the magazine had back then – you could fill 3 of today’s magazines with just one back issue. ---
**Author:** ![PinkMarabou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@PinkMarabou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PinkMarabou)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/58 "2005-06-14T18:51:33Z")
[Ah, Ballet. My first love.](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101780501,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/59 "2005-06-14T18:59:06Z")
I was born in a slow news period. **Time** has **Julie Harris as Joan of Arc** (In what? A play? I’m not shelling out to read the article.) [http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,01-12-1955,00.html](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,01-12-1955,00.html) **Life** has **Man-Made Mink**. Wow [http://www.life.com/Life/covers/1955/cv120555.html](http://www.life.com/Life/covers/1955/cv120555.html) ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/60 "2005-06-14T19:02:59Z")
[The Truth About J. Edgar Hoover](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,24-12-1975,00.html) I’m neither an FBI agent or a cross-dresser, but I find it amusing, nonetheless. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234.md?page=4)