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...corps, and it applied to the readers, who had a sense of common participation in human events that nothing else could provide-until the advent of TV. From the start, LIFE took hold of the imagination. Its editors could have been content to let it remain a national scrapbook, but at its heart there was an animal curiosity. As Photographer John Dominis said, "You worked closely with people, individual friends, for three or four weeks, perhaps sometimes three or four months, on a story. They became almost like wartime buddies...
...idea held most fiercely by Martin's father, a printer, is that his huge son should get an education. Summer school. Not a chance, says Martin. No. Enn-oh. His father berates him as he hulks placidly over his body-building scrapbook. No notice. His father pinches his vast upper arm. Nothing. Finally, driven round the bend by love and exasperation, Martin's father thwacks him with a rolled-up newspaper...
UPON TRANSFERRING TO HARVARD in the fall of 1969, I went to visit "Honest Yovy" to tell him that I wanted to play football for Harvard. I showed Yovicsin my scrapbook from Drake to let him know that I was a football "super nigger". He asked me why I left Drake. I told him that I had had racial difficulties at Drake--that the coaches disapproved of my politics, heard and dress. Yovicsin assured me I would have no such difficulties of that nature at Harvard. Then he proceeded to tell me "some of my best friends are colored...
...whole new substrata of events and personalities running through these letters. In February of 1922 Fitzgerald wrote Perkins about Tom Boyd who "runs the book page in The St. Paul Daily News, which he has made the best book page west of the Hudson. Altogether, according to my scrapbook my name has appeared on it over forty times since I came to St. Paul. (These two sentences look funny together! Ha-Ha!" Then three years later Perkins writes Fitzgerald "Tom's book has only sold about 3,000 but I really did not think it could do much more...
...interpretation, no less than the story it accompanies." To illustrate his point, we have assembled a gallery of TIME originals for an exhibit opening next week at Los Angeles' Otis Art Institute. The 124 pieces of portraiture, caricature, sculpture and graphic design form a kind of life-size scrapbook of the personalities and issues of recent history...