Life And Legacy Of Victoria Sanchez-Vejerano: Memorial Details

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Here’s how LIFE described the social life there in a story in its issue: …At Connecticut College, girls have more boyfriends than in the palmy days when the college derived …

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It was a bold notion to name a magazine LIFE. The word life, after all, encompasses everything. The major events that define generations, the fleeting moments that comprise the everyday, the feelings …

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LIFE was very much aware of this change as it was happening, and worried that it was bad for the country. The magazine fretted in 1948 that the decline of the family farm might also signal the decline …

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The following is adapted from the new special issue LIFE’s 100 People Who Changed the World, available at newsstands and online: History never stops moving. It evolves. It is fluid. What history …