On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Joseph Nebus wrote:
The _New York_ magazine headline explains it all:http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/last-editor-of-weekly-life-magazine-dies.htmlLast Editor of Weekly Life Magazine Dies ? By Christopher BonanosRalph 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.
============ reposting from our friends at alt.obituaries:
Within weeks of becoming managing editor, Mr. Graves supervised a controversial issue whose cover article, under the headline "The Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week's Toll," showed photographs of more than 200 American soldiers killed in the Vietnam War from May 28 through June 3.
This was *incredibly* controversial. There were 242 American dead that week, and at the time the war seemed to have no end. The piece made it very clear, very quickly, that those who supported the Vietnam war didn't want to be confronted with its consequences. They instead wanted to drift back through their self-censored memories of their service in the World Wars, and take refuge in the pretense that Vietnam was more or less the same kind of war as those were. The piece has been reproduced here in both its original form and as a slideshow. There's also some background information. <http://life.time.com/history/memorial-day-special-faces-of-the-american- dead-in-vietnam-1969/#1> <http://goo.gl/53SpS> -- 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.
