The ever-so-beautiful Jane Fonda in 1959 — See more photos here.
On this day in LIFE Magazine — May 30, 1969: Our Deadliest Highways
This one time, in 1951, my great great uncle was on the cover of Life magazine.
He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor when he was a 22 year old Army Infantry Sergeant, leading his squad near Kujang-Dong, Korea, November 26, 1950. He threw himself on a hand grenade and it exploded under him. He received the Medal Of Honor from President Truman.
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When you went to your high school prom did you think to yourself, “I wish this night could last forever…” Well, in 1958 it almost did.
“Traditionally,” LIFE noted in its June 9, 1958, issue, “senior proms are the high school students’ big night to howl. To keep them happy and off the roads and ultimately wear them out, many high schools now sponsor all-night dances. The only trouble is that each generation seems to take longer to wear out.”
Students at Mariemont High School near Cincinnati came close to the ultimate this year when they put on a “prom” that lasted almost 32 hours. It started with a progressive dinner (spaghetti to strawberry cake), followed by a formal but highly energetic dance. Then the students boarded a river boat for a cruise and dancing to a jazz combo. Dawn found them somewhat subdued and back at the school for breakfast. Sent home for a short rest period, they emerged refreshed and descended on an amusement park. By nightfall half the students had discovered they were mortal and had gone home to bed. The rest whipped up another dance. “It keeps getting better and better,” one said, “as I get more and more numb.”
Read more about this night here on LIFE.com.
Happy Birthday, President John F. Kennedy.
The lineup of performers for a “Birthday Salute” in honor of President John F. Kennedy, New York, May 19, 1962.
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It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter
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Triple Threat: Sophia Loren (right) poses with her mother (center) and her sister, Maria, in 1957. (Loomis Dean—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
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May 29, 1917: President John F. Kennedy is born.
Happy birthday, Mr. President. Pictured above, his cake at Madison Square Garden during a “Birthday Salute” in honor of President Kennedy, New York, May 19, 1962.
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It’s been well over half-a-century since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to summit the world’s tallest mountain, and even six long decades later their feat resonates as one of the 20th century’s enduring, signature moments. On the anniversary of the pair’s triumph, LIFE.com looks back at that remarkable time with some rare photos from the celebrations afterwards, as well as page spreads from the cover story that ran in LIFE a few months later chronicling the accomplishment — and the bitter controversy that swirled around the entire event.
Caption from the July 13, 1953, issue of LIFE: ”Moving down after triumph, Hillary and Tenzing are still united and delighted.” (James Burke—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
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To see life, to see the world; to eyewitness great events — Ralph Morse, Larry Burrows, and Jim Nachtwey more than fulfilled Luce’s defintion of what photography should be about.
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Bobbie Baker Burrows, Director of Photography, LIFE Books
Here, in a video created to honor three recipients of Time Inc’s prestigious Briton Hadden Lifetime Achievement Award (named for the co-founder, with Henry Luce, of TIME), the profession and the passion of war photography — as practiced across decades by acknowledged masters — get their due.
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On 007 creator Ian Fleming’s birthday, LIFE.com presents rare and unpublished photos behind the scenes at auditions for the 1969 Bond movie, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
Happy 75th, Golden Gate Bridge.
On the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge in May 1937, LIFE.com offers a series of photographs of the grand, audacious structure by LIFE photographers through the years
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Not originally published in LIFE magazine. Lauren Bacall at Gotham Hotel, New York, 1945.
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