Description
Original LIFE Magazine — September 1 1967
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published September 1 1967 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: A colorful collage of 1960s poster art featuring political figures, musicians, psychedelic designs, cultural imagery, and popular graphics of the era.
Inside This Issue: LIFE explores America’s growing poster-art craze in “The Big Poster Hang-Up,” along with an investigation into the brazen empire of organized crime and the original news, photography, advertising, politics, culture, and features from September 1 1967.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: 1960s art collectors, poster enthusiasts, pop-culture fans, organized-crime history readers, LIFE Magazine collectors, and anyone looking for a meaningful birthday or anniversary gift connected to September 1 1967.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 4 Opinion and Comment: Editorials: New Long Weekends
Pg… 4 Opinion and Comment: Editorials: An Overdue Relief Reform
Pg… 4 Opinion and Comment: Editorials: Frantic Search for Notoriety
Pg… 6–11 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Book: Knut Hamsun’s “Hunger and On Overgrown Paths,” Reviewed by Webster Schott
Pg… 6–11 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Movie: “The Flim–Flam Man,” with George C. Scott, Reviewed by Richard Schickel
Pg… 6–11 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Forget TV, Children, Let’s Play: Creative Fun for Kids, by Dixie Oliver
Pg… 12 Opinion and Comment: The View from Here: The Tang of Ocean Thoughts. By Loudon Wainwright
Pg… 13 Opinion and Comment: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 15 The Week’s News and Features: The Crime Cartel: First of Two Reports on the Mob?Its Empire, Its Power, Its Structure and Vicious Tactics, Its Penetration Into the Marrow of American Society. By Sandy Smith
Pg… 24 The Week’s News and Features: On the Newsfronts of the World: Still Waters Lie on a Stricken Alaskan City. Miss America Does Her Bit in Vietnam. “Intrepid” Looks Lubberly. A Most Mannerly Test of Protocol
Pg… 26B The Week’s News and Features: The Presidency: Vignettes of Change Around the Mansion. By Hugh Sidey
Pg… 28 The Week’s News and Features: Close–Up: A Big–Leaguer Big in the Boondocks. Birdie Tebbetts Now Manages Baseball’s Greenest Players
Pg… 32 The Week’s News and Features: Animals: Underwater Bears’ Ballet
Pg… 36 The Week’s News and Features: The Great Poster Wave: Expendable Graphic Art Becomes America’s Biggest Hang–Up. From Mao to 3–D Op or Twiggy. By Jon Borgzinner
Pg… 46 The Week’s News and Features: Sioux City Welcomes the World: A Must Stop for Foreign Visitors Touring the U.S. Photographed by Lee Balterman. Nobody Bothers About Protocol, They Just Get Acquainted. By Dora Jane Hamblin
Pg… 54 The Week’s News and Features: Bell of Decision Rings in Vietnam: Approaching Elections Challenge a Nation’s History and Offer Hope for the Future. By Theodore H. White
Pg… 61 The Week’s News and Features: Fashion: For Fall, Paris Gives Legs a Boost
Pg… 66 The Week’s News and Features: Sports: The Remarkable Debbie and Claudia
Pg… 68 The Week’s News and Features: Miscellany
