Ed Clark Photo Archives - LIFE https://www.life.com/tag/ed-clark/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 13:54:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/02211512/cropped-favicon-512-32x32.png Ed Clark Photo Archives - LIFE https://www.life.com/tag/ed-clark/ 32 32 Satchel Paige and Bill Veeck: Legends Meet at Spring Training, 1952 https://www.life.com/arts-entertainment/satchel-paige-and-bill-veeck-legends-meet-at-spring-training-1952/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 13:54:30 +0000 https://www.life.com/?p=5378319 Spring training is a beloved ritual for baseball fans, heralding both the end of winter and the start of a new season. LIFE magazine loved to cover spring training. On this site you will find stories on the year the Dodgers held spring training in Havana and also on the legendary Dodgertown spring training complex ... Read more

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]]> Spring training is a beloved ritual for baseball fans, heralding both the end of winter and the start of a new season. LIFE magazine loved to cover spring training. On this site you will find stories on the year the Dodgers held spring training in Havana and also on the legendary Dodgertown spring training complex in Vero Beach, Florida.

In 1952 LIFE turned its focus to the training camp of the St. Louis Browns. The main angle of LIFE’s story was about new owner Bill Veeck hiring the great Rogers Hornsby as his new manager to shake up a team that had finished last and was full of disgruntled players. The great promise of that spring renewal would prove false—Veeck fired Hornsby in June, much to the delight of the players who hated the hard ways of the seven-time batting champ.

But while Hornsby was the primary focus, photographer Edward Clark also captured some pictures of the other certified baseball legend in Browns camp that year, Satchel Paige. The greatest pitcher in the history of the Negro Leagues, Paige was well past his prime when baseball finally integrated in 1947. In LIFE’s 1952 story he was only mentioned in a photo caption: “Oldest pitcher in the majors, Satchel Paige, probably over 50, is still effective for two or three innings. He is also the clubhouse comedian.”

Paige and Veeck were both singular characters. Veeck was a rare and imaginative impresario who once livened up the long summer of a losing team by signing midget Eddie Gaedel as a publicity stunt. Paige memorably bestowed on baseball his six rules for keeping young.

There is no record of what Paige and Veeck were talking about when Clark photographed them in the clubhouse of the Browns’ spring training facility in Burbank, California. But merely seeing them together is a reminder of a plan Veeck once had for bringing Negro League stars into major league baseball years before Jackie Robinson broke the sport’s color barrier.

In his autobiography Veeck wrote that in 1943 he had an agreement to buy the Philadelphia Phillies, with the intention of stocking the roster with the greatest stars of the Negro Leagues, which would surely have included Paige. Veeck wrote that the sale was quashed when his designs were learned. Baseball historians have since disputed the notion that the plan was as far along as Veeck claimed, and whether anyone actually quashed anything. But there is no doubt that Veeck was on the progressive side of history when it came to integration—soon after the Dodgers brought Jackie Robinson to the majors, Veeck signed Larry Doby, the majors’ second Black player, to the team he owned then, then Cleveland Indians. And in 1978, when Veeck owned the Chicago White Sox, he made Doby baseball’s second Black manager.

It’s nice to imagine that, during the slower-paced days of spring training, Veeck might have wanted to speculate with Paige about what an all-Black Phillies team might have accomplished in 1943. It’s also nice to imagine that Paige might have responded to Veeck with the most famous of his six rules for staying young: “Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.”

Bill Veeck (left) and Satchel Paige (center) in the clubhouse at spring training for the St. Louis Browns, 1952.

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Bill Veeck (left) and Satchel Paige (center) in the clubhouse at spring training for the St. Louis Browns, 1952.

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Bill Veeck (left) and Satchel Paige (center) in the clubhouse at spring training for the St. Louis Browns in Burbank, California, 1952.

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Bill Veeck (left) and Satchel Paige (center) in the clubhouse at spring training for the St. Louis Browns in Burbank, California, 1952.

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Satchel Paige pitched at spring training for the St. Louis Browns in Burbank, California, 1952.

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New St. Louis Browns manager Rogers Hornsby signaled for a baserunner to stop during a spring training game, 1952.

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New St. Louis Browns manager Rogers Hornsby (left) spoke with team owner Bill Veeck during spring training, 1952.

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Manager Rogers Hornsby instructed his players at spring training for the St. Louis Browns in 1952; he would be fired three months into his first season with the team.

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Browns owner Bill Veeck (center), at spring training in Burbank, Calif., read a column picking the Browns to finish in first place in American League, 1952.

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St. Louis Browns manager Rogers Hornsby (right) drew a line in the dirt to cautiion Clint Courtney against crowding during spring training in Burbank, California, 1952.

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Satchel Paige pitched at spring training for the St. Louis Browns in Burbank, California, 1952.

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]]> That Time We Were Promised Jet Packs https://www.life.com/history/that-time-we-were-promised-jet-packs/ Fri, 07 Jul 2023 13:44:00 +0000 https://www.life.com/?p=5375375 The idea that we would all be flying around with jet packs one day has enough cultural currency that a Scottish indie rock band could call itself We Were Promised Jet Packs with no further explanation needed. It’s a shorthand way of saying that the future we now inhabit isn’t what we once imagined it ... Read more

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]]> The idea that we would all be flying around with jet packs one day has enough cultural currency that a Scottish indie rock band could call itself We Were Promised Jet Packs with no further explanation needed. It’s a shorthand way of saying that the future we now inhabit isn’t what we once imagined it would be.

But was there ever actually a promise about jet packs in the first place?

The idea of a jet pack was first hatched in 1919, about sixteen years after the first flight of the Orville Brothers, when a Russian inventor drew up a design that was never actually built. The idea then progressed in fits and starts, inching closer to a working prototype around 1960.

That prototype, known as the Rocket Belt, was presented to readers of LIFE in its June 18, 1961 issue, when a picture by Ed Clark showed Harold Graham making the first public untethered flight. The sight of a man soaring through the air was more than enough to capture the imagination—though the text might have kept expectations closer to Earth. The caption explained that the Graham could not go up very high, move all that fast or stay airborne for very long:

At an altitude of 15 feet, a ground speed of 10 knots, Bell Engineer Harold Graham flew gently above a track without benefit of airplane. Graham was strapped to a hydrogen-peroxide-fueled rocket which will keep a man up half a minute through its jets of invisible steam. The Army, which financed it, hopes it will someday make foot soldiers all look like Buck Rogers.

The last line of that text is, in retrospect, revealing. The Army funded the development of jet packs for a specific military use, rather than public consumption. You could argue that we were never really promised jet packs.

But pictures can make promises more powerful than words, and the sight of Graham in midair would be enough to ignite jetpack dreams—and not unreasonably. Technology tends to improve exponentially, after all. The first computers took up entire rooms, and now devices that are more powerful slip easily into our pockets. So if in 1961 Harold Graham was going aloft for 30 seconds, shouldn’t it mean that in a few decades people would be jet-packing themselves from, say, New York City to the Hamptons?

But the jet packs have proved to be a stubborn exception. The reports on their continuing development, while full of enthusiasm, still talk about the packs as having niche uses for the military and for rescue workers. The reason that jet packs still don’t make sense for everyday consumers is the weight of the fuel. The amount needed to sustain a trip of more than a couple minutes would prevent it from ever getting off the ground.

For now. But who knows, maybe one day….

Bell engineer Harold Graham demonstrating the Rocket Belt jet pack at Ft. Bragg, 1961.

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Bell engineer Harold Graham demonstrating the Rocket Belt jet pack at Ft. Bragg, 1961.

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Bell engineer Harold Graham demonstrating the Rocket Belt jet pack at Ft. Bragg, 1961.

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Bell engineer Harold Graham demonstrating the Rocket Belt jet pack at Ft. Bragg, 1961.

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Bell engineer Harold Graham demonstrating the Rocket Belt jet pack at Ft. Bragg, 1961.

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Bell engineer Harold Graham demonstrating the Rocket Belt jet pack at Ft. Bragg, 1961.

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Bell engineer Harold Graham demonstrating the Rocket Belt jet pack at Ft. Bragg, 1961.

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Bell engineer Harold Graham demonstrating the Rocket Belt jet pack at Ft. Bragg, 1961.

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Bell engineer Harold Graham demonstrating the Rocket Belt jet pack at Ft. Bragg, 1961.

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]]> LIFE’s Best Convention Photos: The GOP https://www.life.com/history/lifes-best-convention-photos-the-gop/ Sun, 23 Aug 2020 12:51:10 +0000 http://time.com/?p=3707440 LIFE magazine's best photos from Republican National Conventions through the decades, from 1944-1968.

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]]> Time and again, LIFE photographers such as Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bill Ray, Thomas McAvoy, Ed Clark, Gjon Mili and others found ways to capture the drama, tension and, occasionally, the humor inherent in big-time politics. And with the possible exception of election night, there’s no more dramatic, tense or humorous time (sometimes intentionally, sometimes not) to watch the strange, imperfect mechanism of representative democracy at work than during a national convention.

In recent years, much of the drama around conventions has been leached out of the proceedings. The way that COVID-19 has impacted the conventions in 2020 has added an extra note of nostalgia to the images of conventions from years past.

Here, LIFE.com presents a selection of LIFE’s best pictures from the Republican national conventions across several decades. More than a few famous GOP stalwarts are here—Ike, Nixon, Goldwater, Thomas Dewey—as are other long-forgotten pols who were players in their day, and the delegates who, in the end, provide both parties’ conventions with their real energy

Scene at the 1968 Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida.

The 1968 Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida.

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Scene at the 1968 Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida.

The 1968 Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida.

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Go-go girl and delegates during the 1968 Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida.

A go-go girl entertained delegates during the 1968 Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida.

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Arizona politician and future U.S. Attorney General Richard Kleindienst (left) confers with Nebraska's Richard Herman during the 1964 GOP National Convention in San Francisco.

Arizona politician and future U.S. Attorney General Richard Kleindienst (left) conferred with Nebraska’s Richard Herman during the 1964 GOP National Convention in San Francisco.

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Ronald Reagan at the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco.

Ronald Reagan at the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco.

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Scene during the 1960 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

The 1960 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

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Not originally published in LIFE. During the 1960 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Martin Luther King Jr. leads a demonstration calling for a strong Civil Rights plank in the GOP campaign platform.

During the 1960 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Martin Luther King Jr. led a demonstration calling for a strong Civil Rights plank in the GOP campaign platform.

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Scene during the 1960 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

The 1960 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

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Scene during the 1960 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

The 1960 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

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Scene at the 1956 Republican National Convention, San Francisco, California.

The 1956 Republican National Convention, San Francisco, California.

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Left to right: President Dwight D. Eisenhower, his wife Mamie, Richard M. Nixon and his wife, Pat, at the 1956 GOP National Convention, San Francisco, California.

Left to right: President Dwight D. Eisenhower, his wife Mamie, Richard M. Nixon and his wife, Pat, at the 1956 GOP National Convention, San Francisco, California.

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Scene at the 1956 Republican National Convention, San Francisco.

The 1956 Republican National Convention, San Francisco.

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Chairman of the Republican National Committee Arthur E. Summerfield on the telephone during the 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.

Chairman of the Republican National Committee Arthur E. Summerfield spoke on the telephone during the 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.

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Control booth, 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.

Control booth, 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.

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Bertha Baur, a prominent figure at conventions for decades and a long-time member of the Republican National Committee, in an elephant hat at the 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.

Bertha Baur, a prominent figure at conventions for decades and a long-time member of the Republican National Committee, in an elephant hat at the 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.

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Pennsylvania Governor John Fine (left) and Arthur Summerfield chat in private during the 1952 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

Pennsylvania Governor John Fine (left) and Arthur Summerfield chatted in private during the 1952 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

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Republicans hold an informal conference in a kitchen during the 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.

Republicans held an informal conference in a kitchen during the 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.

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Vice-presidential nominee Richard Nixon and his wife Pat talk with photographers during the 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.

Vice-presidential nominee Richard Nixon and his wife Pat spoke with photographers during the 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.

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Scene at the 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.

The 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.

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Scene at the 1948 GOP National Convention in Philadelphia.

The 1948 GOP National Convention in Philadelphia.

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Scene at the 1948 GOP National Convention in Philadelphia.

The 1948 GOP National Convention in Philadelphia.

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Pennsylvania delegates to the 1944 Republican National Convention in Chicago pull cold beers from a tub of ice after a caucus meeting.

Pennsylvania delegates to the 1944 Republican National Convention in Chicago pulled cold beers from a tub of ice after a caucus meeting.

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Delegates listen to Herbert Hoover during the 1944 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

Delegates listened to Herbert Hoover during the 1944 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

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A model wears a bathing suit in a fashion show at Ohio senator Robert Taft's headquarters during the 1940 GOP National Convention in Philadelphia.

A model wore a bathing suit in a fashion show at Ohio senator Robert Taft’s headquarters during the 1940 GOP National Convention in Philadelphia.

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A young Republican rests on a sofa in the Hotel Adelphi during the 1940 GOP National Convention in Philadelphia. ("Van" is Sen. Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, long considered a front-runner for the GOP nomination; instead, the Republicans nominated Indiana's Wendell Willkie, who lost the election to the Democratic incumbent, FDR.)

A young Republican rested on a sofa in the Hotel Adelphi during the 1940 GOP National Convention in Philadelphia. (“Van” was Sen. Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, who was long considered a front-runner for the GOP nomination; instead, the Republicans nominated Indiana’s Wendell Willkie, who lost the election to the Democratic incumbent, Franklin Roosevelt.)

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]]> When Schoolteachers Could Win Prizes for Being ‘Prettiest’ https://www.life.com/lifestyle/prettiest-teacher-1953/ Tue, 03 May 2016 08:00:18 +0000 http://time.com/?p=4151789 On National Teacher Appreciation Day, remembering a time when teachers were appreciated for something other than their teaching

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]]> In today’s world, the schoolteachers who are appreciated by society are, we hope, those who inspire children to learn and whose classrooms will long be remembered by their students as the places where education came alive. In 1953, those things were important too. But, judging by this LIFE story from that February, skill wasn’t all that mattered.

Nell Owen taught speech class to first- through sixth-graders in Dallas, and she was—according to a contest to which her students submitted her picture—the “prettiest teacher in the U.S.” The contest, as LIFE explained, was sponsored by the hit CBS radio (and later television) program Our Miss Brooks, which starred Eve Arden as a high-school teacher. The prize was a trip to meet Arden in Hollywood. Though the show was a comedy, its subject matter wasn’t all frivolous: the first episode starts with Miss Brooks’ enthusiasm for her work and another episode depicted Miss Brooks confronting the lack of resources for heating fuel at her school.

That juxtaposition of lightheartedness and serious education matters would also prove appropriate for a contest won by Owen. While the ranking of elementary-school teachers by their looks seems quite retrograde these days, her career was about more than her face. The principal of her school told LIFE that he had worried she would be “another discipline case” whom “those kiddos will take…by storm.” After a year of teaching, at only 21 years old, Owen had been dubbed “durable as she is fetching.”

 

Liz Ronk edited this gallery for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk.

Nell Owen, voted "prettiest school teacher in the U.S." in 1953

Nell Owen, voted “prettiest school teacher in the U.S.” in 1953.

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Prettiest School Teacher 1953

Nell Owen listened intently as sixth-grader Kathy Kennmer gave an extemporaneous speech to class.

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Prettiest School Teacher 1953

Mrs. Owen gave her students tips on speaking: “Don’t look off all around the room…if you don’t know what you’re talking about, nobody else will.”

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Prettiest School Teacher 1953

Nell Owen addressed her class in Dallas, 1953.

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Prettiest School Teacher 1953

Nell Owen addressed her class, 1953.

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Prettiest School Teacher 1953

Nell had been married for nearly two years to George Owen, a chemical manufacturer.

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Prettiest School Teacher 1953

Nell’s students saw her off on her trip to Hollywood.

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Prettiest School Teacher 1953

Bound for Hollywood, Nell received farewell hugs from some of her students at the airport.

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Prettiest School Teacher 1953

Nell and husband George boarded the plane for Hollywood.

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Prettiest School Teacher 1953

Nell enjoyed her visit to a Hollywood nightclub.

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]]> See Photos of a Young Queen Elizabeth II Touring North America https://www.life.com/people/young-queen-elizabeth-ii/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 12:00:44 +0000 http://time.com/?p=4282201 The Queen knows how to celebrate

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]]> In 1957, when Queen Elizabeth II was about five years into her reign, she paid a visit to North America, complete with all the pomp and circumstance one might expect of a royal tour. She met with President Eisenhower and Vice-President Nixon; visited her subjects in Canada, where she opened a session of the country’s parliament; visited Jamestown, Va., site of the first permanent British settlement in America; and took in her very first American college football game, in which Maryland beat North Carolina. (Her take: “My, it’s exciting!”)

The visit wasn’t all parties. Coming in the midst of the Cold War, the alliance between the U.S. and Britain was as crucial as ever. As LIFE noted, the Queen’s visit coincided with another by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who was in Washington for “urgent policy talks” about Soviet accusations that the U.S. and Turkey were planning to attack Russian-armed Syria.

More than 60 years later, that alliance remains strong and so does the urge to celebrate.

Liz Ronk edited this gallery for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk.

Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip during their 1957 North America tour.

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Queen Elizabeth II, 1957

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Queen Elizabeth at College Park’s Byrd Stadium during her 1957 North American tour.

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Queen Elizabeth at College Park’s Byrd Stadium during her 1957 North American tour.

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Original caption: “Close-up is provided as teams, Maryland, right, line up. Queen (center) is almost on scrimmage line.”

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Original caption: “Absorbed spectator, the Queen turns to question [University of Maryland President] Elkins. At right is Governor McKeldin.”

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Original caption: “Accompanied by the President and met at the door by Mrs. Eisenhower, Elizabeth and Philip arrive at the White House for their four-day-stay.”

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Queen Elizabeth with Richard Nixon during her North American tour, 1957.

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Queen Elizabeth II (L), Vice President Richard M. Nixon (C), and Prince Philip (2R), during a luncheon for the Queen during her North American tour in 1957.

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Queen Elizabeth, Richard Nixon, Mrs. Eisenhower, and Prince Philip in Washington D.C. during the Queen’s North American tour in 1957.

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Queen Elizabeth with U.K. Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd during her North American tour in 1957.

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Queen Elizabeth visiting Jamestown, Va. Replica of colonists’ ship “Susan Constant” in the background.

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Original caption: “With `Parson,’ Queen visits James Fort Church replica.”

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Original caption: ” Decorated girl scout, Jennifer Ankers, gets notice. `You have a lot of medals,’ said Philip. `Six,’ she replied. In back is Governor Thomas Stanley.”

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Original caption: “Mock prisoners, locked in the stocks for her edification, amuse the Queen. `Does it hurt?’ she asked, while Philip inquired, `Do they throw rotten eggs at you?’ The prisoners replied, `No.'”

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip during their North American tour in 1957.

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, and [Governor General of Canada] Vincent Massey during the Queen’s North American tour in 1957.

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip during their visit to Williamsburg, 1957.

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Queen Elizabeth during her North American tour, 1957.

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Queen Elizabeth II's 1957 North America tour.

Queen Elizabeth during her North American tour, 1957.

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]]> See Photos From Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall’s Wedding Day https://www.life.com/people/bacall-bogart-wedding/ Thu, 21 May 2015 10:00:51 +0000 http://time.com/?p=3852221 Revisiting the day the pair tied the knot, on what would have been their 70th anniversary

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]]> Humphrey Bogart met Lauren Bacall while filming To Have and Have Not, a 1944 film loosely adapted from the eponymous Ernest Hemingway novel. The two began an affair; Bogart was still married to Mayo Methot, his third wife, at the time. By February of 1945, Bogart had called off his marriage and was preparing to wed Bacall which he did just a few months later, on May 21, 1945. Following the fête, LIFE announced their union as follows:

Actress Lauren Bacall (“The Look”), born 20 years ago as Betty Joan Perske, was married last week to Actor Humphrey Bogart (“The Leer”), 46, in the hallway of Novelist Louis Bromfield’s 20-room farmhouse near Mansfield, Ohio. It was her first marriage, Bogart’s fourth. The ceremony was performed by Municipal Judge H.H. Shettler who read a service which he said contained a little of everything. Before taking the vows, Bogart drank a Martini, muttered, “Oh, baby,” to his bride. After the ceremony he kissed his bride and she gasped, “Oh, goody!” Deeply sun-tanned, she was wearing a doeskin beige dress. Seven sheriffs kept the crowds away.

“Oh, baby” and “oh, goody” would remain married until his death from cancer in 1957.

Liz Ronk edited this gallery for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LizabethRonk.

Newlywed actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall attending wedding reception at the home of novelist Louis Bromfeld.

Newlywed actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall attending wedding reception at the home of novelist Louis Bromfield.

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Newlywed actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall attending wedding reception at the home of novelist Louis Bromfeld.

Newlywed actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall attending wedding reception at the home of novelist Louis Bromfield.

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Lauren Bacall fed wedding cake to her groom, Humphrey Bogart, after their marriage ceremony in Ohio, 1945.

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Newlywed actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall attending wedding reception at the home of novelist Louis Bromfeld.

Bacall tosses her bouquet to an eager crowd.

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Newlywed actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall attending wedding reception at the home of novelist Louis Bromfeld.

Bogart gives his bride a kiss on the cheek.

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Newlywed actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall attending wedding reception at the home of novelist Louis Bromfeld.

Newlywed actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall share a sneaky moment on their wedding day.

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Newlywed actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall attending wedding reception at the home of novelist Louis Bromfeld.

Newlyweds smile for the camera.

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Novelist Louis Bromfield (L) with Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and their guests at their wedding.

Novelist Louis Bromfield (L) with Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and their guests at their wedding.

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