Life Magazine, May 1, 1984 - The History Of Cocaine

Full page color Prince tennis racket ad featuring tennis player Erick Korita. A million-dollar look inside the body. Loudon Wainwright writes a comment piece about the books of the baseball season, about baseball. The secret societies of New Orleans. Search for the lost children of Argentina, mass murders during the military dictatorship. America's first Olympians, coverage includes James Connolly, Charles Blake, Thomas Burke, Thomas Curtis, Sumner Paine Coach John Graham, John Paine, William Hoyt, Ellery Clark, a running race, and more. A full page photo of runners in the 1896 marathon in Greece, winning time was 2:58:50, 25 entrants. A 13-year-old's murder confession, Trina Bence, Kellie Poppleton, Junior high school drug ring in Alameda county, California. Life visits the Mardi Gras. Elizabeth McGovern, actress. Pretty two page color ad for Julia, the first American Bride doll, one full page of illustration. Mystery of Jim Thompson, Thai silk King. A New York's Clarkson University, every freshman gets a computer. Margaret Truman Daniel conducts a tour of her parents' house in Independence, Missouri. Polish sculptor, Magdalena Abakanowicz. New York's School of American Ballet is 50, Edwin Mota, Jeff Edwards, Mark Jeffreys, Steven Wiesmore, Jeremy Collins, Simon Greaves, Alex Stevens, Josh Greenberg, Gordon Stevens, more. Humorous photo sequence of a boat and a dock and one foot on each, Alan Carey, Michele Carey, Montana's Hayden Lake.