Speaking of TIME Magazine... what was the cover on the date when you were born?

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I remember this issue. They covered several wars, the two of which stand out in my head were the war in Northern Ireland (which is on the cover) and the war in Lebanon.

I suppose I don't usually think of the Northern Ireland conflict as a "war".

[JohnT]

Originally posted by germanos


Just move along guys, nothing to see here.

That was the cover I got when I typed in my Bday. Fortunately, I decided it was the wrong cover and went a week earlier.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by BlackCat

Here's the beginnings of the Letter From the Publisher section of that issue:

THE customs of Christmas are many, but none are more enduring than the creation of a crèche, centered about the watching Mary and the Christ child asleep in a manger. The magnificent 18th century creche on TIME'S cover this week is one of the famous Neapolitan presepios that delighted King Charles III of Naples and his queen, who sewed garments of silk and velvet for such exquisitely wrought figurines. Using the simplest of materials—vegetable fibers on wire skeletons, wooden hands and feet, earthenware heads—noted Italian sculptors created these figures, which now enact the..

[Tuberski]

Spiro?!?!?!?!?



ACK!

[joncha]

The week before was another goddamn tennis cover, so I cheated and picked the week after.

[JohnT]

I'm looking at the covers in 1969 (when my wife was born).

Man, they all suck! Who thought those drawings would be attractive?

[Kuciwalker]

[JohnT]

Awwww. Just in time for Farm Aid, too!

Now we know why MrFun is the way he is.

[JohnT]

Sorry, this isn't for anybody's birthday (that I know, at least), but it was too good not to post here. Oddly enough, 35 years later we're still asking that exact same question:

[Buck Birdseed]

I'm a spender, not a saver!

[Richelieu]

LBJ.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by JohnT


Here's the beginnings of the Letter From the Publisher section of that issue:

THE customs of Christmas are many, but none are more enduring than the creation of a crèche, centered about the watching Mary and the Christ child asleep in a manger. The magnificent 18th century creche on TIME'S cover this week is one of the famous Neapolitan presepios that delighted King Charles III of Naples and his queen, who sewed garments of silk and velvet for such exquisitely wrought figurines. Using the simplest of materials—vegetable fibers on wire skeletons, wooden hands and feet, earthenware heads—noted Italian sculptors created these figures, which now enact the..

Thanks - should have found that myself

My first impression was one of these market mechaincs that shows for example how mining was done in the 18'enth century - i think you have to go to a museum to see them nowadays. "Den gamle by" in Ã…rhus have one if i'm not wrong (thats where i saw it too many years ago)

[el freako]

Interesting

[laurentius]

I suppose Reagans crimes made me lefty.

[Az]