TIME this month reached its 29th birthday. The news span we have covered in those 29 years is approximately the same as the news-conscious life of the head of the average TIME-reading family, now 42½ years old. But the character of the news itself is far different from what it used to be.
In 1923, a postwar year in which peace seemed to be secured to the world, the news often seemed to be little more than a picture-book pageant of the period's "wonderful normalcy" of World Series heroes, movie stars and politics-as-usual. And...
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