The TIME Magazine Vault

Nov. 20, 1933

‘Eleanor Everywhere’

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt during Radio Broadcast, Washington DC, USA, circa 1939

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Film "Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone" In United States In November, 2001-

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When Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them hits theaters, the latest visit of the J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World will brings fans back to a universe they first discovered nearly two decades ago. "First-time English author Rowling—Jo to her friends—has conjured up a magical, self-contained parallel universe that looks a lot like a British boarding school except that Harry takes classes in potions, poltergeists patrol the halls, and Harry gets to show his true mettle," TIME magazine noted in 1999, in one of the magazine's first stories about the phenomenon.

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Nov. 17, 1930

Football Fanatics

USA / Los Angeles: The Memorial Coliseum

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Igor sikorsky in the cockpit of one of the world's first helicopters that he built, the bc-300, 1943.

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The Man in the Helicopter

When Igor Sikorsky appeared on the cover of TIME on Nov. 16, 1953, TIME traced his success back to a childhood interest in flight and the ability to wonder whether he might be someone who could change that field forever. "This curiosity about his own brain, and his grave sense of responsibility and hope for its products, would be understandable enough if only for its most recent series of convolutions—the experiments in which he planned, built and flew the world's first really workable helicopter," TIME noted, "and more recent work in which he has helped bring the device to its present state of windmilling efficiency."

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Nov. 15, 1968