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
"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.
Nineteen-year-old Peggy Fleming captures the gold medal in women’s figure skating at the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France–the only U.S. gold
of the games.
