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18th April 2012
i am starting to forget your face, but i never will. because your pictures will always surround me, every step i take, all my blinks and hang ups. your face is impossible to leave behind, even as i run away from the past that will never escape me. but always will i be running.
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Missouri Represents!
life:
No American public figures — not Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, not Louise Brooks, not even the inimitable Louis Armstrong — embodied the “Jazz Age” of the 1920s more perfectly than Josephine Baker, the Missouri native who became a legendary performer in Paris in the Twenties and Thirties.
Here, on the anniversary of Josephine Baker’s death — she died at age 68 in her beloved Paris, on April 12, 1975 — LIFE.com brings back a series of photographs from 1951 by Alfred Eisenstaedt that capture something of the woman’s energy, charisma and near-palpable joie de vivre. There will never be another …See more photos here.(Alfred Eisenstaedt—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
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life:
Jackie Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays…
Take a trip back to the 40s, 50s, 60s, and even 70s with us as we go through some of our very best baseball photographs.Pictured: University of Pittsburgh students cheer wildly from atop the Cathedral of Learning as they look down on Forbes Field, where the Pittsburgh Pirates are playing the Yankees in the 7th game of a Series that would enter baseball lore when Bill Mazeroski smacked a 9th-inning, game-winning home run. It was Pittsburgh’s first championship in 35 years.
(George Silk—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
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