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As a weekly magazine LIFE covered it all, with a breadth and open-mindedness that looks especially astounding today, when publications and websites tailor their coverage to ever-narrowing audiences LIFE chronicled the lives of presidents, and also followed a country doctor on his rounds
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The photos by George Silk capture that world in vivid color, and Moser’s words bring to life the characters trying to make a life in the Outback One cattle rancher, Bill Waudby, talked about the dry years he had endured
- The 100 Most Important Photos Ever - LIFE
The following is adapted from the introduction to LIFE’s newcspecial issue 100 Photographs: The Most Important Pictures of All Time and the Stories Behind Them, available at newsstands and online:
- About LIFEs World Class Photo Archive - LIFE
At its height, LIFE magazine’s incomparable images and essays reached 1 of 3 American readers The original prints, negatives, and associated manuscripts remain in Dotdash Meredith’s LIFE Picture Collection, an unprecedented cultural asset with millions of untold stories and unseen images
- Journey to a Vanished Fisherman’s Paradise - LIFE
LIFE magazine was fortunate enough to visit Cabo Blanco in 1959, when the club was still in its heyday Staff photographer Frank Schershel captured the fisherman out at sea and along the shore
- The First Beagles Whose Ears LBJ Just Had to Tug - LIFE
The story aimed to show that, despite the ear-pulling incident, Her and Him were enjoying life under the Johnson Administration “Not many dogs have been privileged to shoo birds off the White House lawn, get underfoot at a cabinet meeting or mingle with dignitaries at a State Ball,” LIFE wrote
- Pushing the Right Buttons: Inside Charm School for Elevator Girls - LIFE
Here’s how LIFE described it: Twice a week a small group of operators leave their high-powered lifts and are sent to be kneaded, pummeled and painted in a flossy charm school in the Loop
- Paratroopers in Vietnam Make a Historic Leap - LIFE
All 800 paratroopers landed safely (including Kuhl, who snapped a photo on the way down for LIFE), despite encountering some initial sniper fire But the mission itself was an anticlimax
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