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LIFE – Editors Picks

• The Rat Pack: Rare Photos of Sinatra and Friends - February 6, 2012 at 20:38
  “Forget the movie, let’s pull the job!” That, legend has it, is what Frank Sinatra joked upon hearing the plot for Ocean’s 11, the 1960 Vegas heist flick that went on to become the Rat Pack’s signature big-screen adventure. ItR [...]
• LIFE Rides With the Hells Angels - February 5, 2012 at 16:14
  From Jesse James and Butch Cassidy to Scarface and Tony Soprano, outlaws have always held a singularly ambiguous place in America’s popular imagination: we fear and loathe gangsters’ appetite for violence; we envy and covet their freedom. In early [...]
• Picasso: Drawing With Light - February 4, 2012 at 12:00
  LIFE magazine’s Gjon Mili, a technical prodigy and lighting innovator, visited Pablo Picasso in the South of France in 1949. The meeting of these two marvelous minds and sensibilities was bound to result in something extraordinary. Mili showed the artist [...]
• The Day MLK Died: A LIFE Photographer’s Story - February 3, 2012 at 17:16
  On April 4, 1968, LIFE photographer Henry Groskinsky and writer Mike Silva, on assignment in Alabama, learned that Martin Luther King, Jr., had been shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. The two men jumped into their car, raced the [...][...]
• Larry Burrows’ Classic Photo Essay: ‘One Ride With Yankee Papa 13′ - February 3, 2012 at 16:18
  Over the decades, while LIFE magazine published dozens of photo essays by the 20th century’s greatest photographers, few combined the raw intensity and technical brilliance of Larry Burrows’ seminal “One Ride With Yankee Papa 13″ — [...]
• Marilyn Monroe: Early Unpublished Photos - February 3, 2012 at 16:10
  Few Hollywood stars of the 1950s and 1960s were so compelling, so utterly unique, that they actually came to define the era in which they worked and played. Marilyn Monroe was one of those stars. From her earliest days as [...][...]
• Woody Guthrie Serenades New York City, 1943 - February 1, 2012 at 19:14
  In 1943, the modern-day troubadour and national treasure, Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie, was about to publish his now-classic, semi-fictionalized autobiography, Bound for Glory, in which he wrote vibrantly about his childhood, his love of American [...]
• Leonard McCombe: Unpublished Oscar Rehearsal Photos, 1958 - February 1, 2012 at 17:47
  During Hollywood’s Golden Age, being a star entailed more than just acting: leading men and women had to sing, dance, play it straight, play the clown — in short, they had to know how to entertain. Little wonder, then, that [...][...]
• Margaret Bourke-White: Segregation in South Carolina, 1956 - February 1, 2012 at 17:30
  In 1956 LIFE magazine dispatched reporters and photographers to the American South to explore how the emotionally and politically charged issue of segregation manifested itself at a time when the Civil Rights movement was barely in its infancy. Here, LIFE [... [...]
• World War II: London in Color - February 1, 2012 at 09:18
  The air raids by German Luftwaffe planes on English cities and towns in 1940 and 1941 — attacks known collectively and famously as The Blitz — were terrifying, but they failed in their key aims: namely, to demoralize the British [...][...]