Ladies’ Home Journal magazine, published by the Meredith Corporation, first
looked more like a newspaper and cost 50 cents for a year’s subscription. It
was the first American magazine to reach one-million subscribers in 1907. The
publication is one of seven women’s service magazines.

Diane Sawyer on the cover of the February, 2014 issue

 
Mike Gracia

Sonny & Cher

Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono
(February 16, 1935 – January 5, 1998)

Bono was a recording artist in partnership with his second wife
Cher, a record producer, and actor who had a second career
as a politician. He was the 16th Mayor of Palm Springs from
1988 to 1992 and a Member of the US House of Representatives
from California’s 44th district from 1995 until his death in a skiing
accident.

     John Paul Henson (April 25, 1965 – February 14, 2014)

(USA today) – John Paul Henson followed his father, Muppets creator
Jim Henson, into puppeteering, and sadly, to an early death.

The younger Henson, 48, fell victim to a sudden heart attack Friday
at his home in Saugerties, N.Y.

John was the puppeteer behind the ogre Sweetums (below).

Sweetums is perhaps the most popular and well known of 
the Muppet monsters from The Muppet Show.

"My True Story" debuted on ABC radio and ran for seventeen years. The daily
program was presented in cooperation with "True Story" magazine, the source of
the stories for the radio series. The magazine, first published in 1919. was said to
be one of the earliest in today’s genre of confession magazines and continued on
radio for nearly 19 years.