The TIME Magazine Vault

Asian American family reads together, ca. 1962.

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Father’s Day in the 1960s

"Father's Day, which is beginning to edge into equal, if less throat-lumping, status with Mother's Day, came and passed last week in a blaze of angled advertising. The things the stores picked out for special Father's Day promotion (after the usual collection of ties, bathrobes and gold-plated putters) added up to a touching composite picture of the National Daddy," TIME noted in 1963. "For one thing, he is a weekend victim, compelled by his family to rise and shine even on his days off. A Manhattan department store took full-page newspaper ads to urge that on the one Sunday that was his Day Dad be allowed to sleep late."

Father’s Day in the 1960s

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June 12, 1964

Barry Goldwater

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June 14, 1904: Margaret Bourke-White Born

Margaret Bourke-White was LIFE Magazine's first female staff photographer—but she got her start as a photographer years before taking the magazine's first cover photo, for the inaugural issue in 1936. "Nervy, she has gone where her eye led her never takes no for an answer," TIME noted in 1931. "She has shot pictures in Canadian lumber camps at 27° below Zero, on the spire of Manhattan's Chrysler Building, where it took three men to steady the tripod. Her 1930 New York business announcement, an ascending view of the Chrysler spire taken from atop the scaffolding, made recipients gasp. In her recent five weeks in Russia she had five proposals of marriage."

June 14, 1904: Margaret Bourke-White Born

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June 11, 1973

When the Triple Crown Was His

Jockey Ron Turcotte could use a telescope to see Twice A Pri

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Celebrating the Ocean’s Magic

On June 8, for World Oceans Day, people around the world will pay homage to the planet's oceans — but nobody could celebrate an ocean like Jacques Cousteau did. When he appeared on the cover of TIME in 1960, the magazine captured his unique take on what made the water special. "I am miserable out of water," he said. "It is as though you had been introduced to heaven, and then found yourself back on earth. The spirituality of a man cannot be completely separated from the physical. But you have made a big step toward escape simply by lowering yourself under water."