The _New York_ magazine headline explains it all: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/last-editor-of-weekly-life-magazine-dies.html
> Last Editor of Weekly Life Magazine Dies > • By Christopher Bonanos > > Ralph Graves, the last managing editor of the weekly Life magazine, > died last week at the age of 88. He was one of the final living connections > to the brain trust at Life, the extravagantly budgeted, nationally beloved > picture magazine that still serves as a pretty good guide to what interested > the mid-century, middle-class American. Graves worked at Life for decades, > rising from reporter to articles editor to managing editor (which, at Time > Inc., was and is the boss of any given magazine). He was unlucky enough to > get the top job in May 1969, when Life was on the ropes — hemorrhaging > advertisers, losing gobs of money, overburdened with millions of subscribers > accustomed to paying pennies a copy as costs spiraled up. He probably never > had a real chance of fixing it, but he kept the fire going for three and a > half years, till Time Inc. shut the magazine down at the end of 1972. His > wife, Eleanor, worked at Life for nearly as long as he did, and the two were > married from 1958 until his death. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
