George Merck, 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).
So far, so good: http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,06-12-1985,00.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…
Rufus? That movie wouldn’t be the original Planet of the Apes, would it? 
apparently 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.
But this is what was happening as I first gazed upon this earth.
::Enthusiastic applause:: Nicely done!
Ah, I just got a picture of Bruce Springsteen that looks suspiciously like ass.
How Gay Is Gay? Homosexuality in America
That would be pretty funny if I were either gay or a homophobe. Instead, just another slow news week
That’s so cool…
Wow, mine is just bo-ring. Amateur Photographer, 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.
Is there a prize for Most Boring? 
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.
Gee, mine was the same as UncleBeer’s.
Radcliffe’s Mary Bunting 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.
California’s Democratic Attorney General, Edmund ‘Pat’ Brown. 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.
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
Life has Man-Made Mink. Wow http://www.life.com/Life/covers/1955/cv120555.html
The Truth About J. Edgar Hoover
I’m neither an FBI agent or a cross-dresser, but I find it amusing, nonetheless.