. The Ladies' home journal. Writer Joe Furnas and editor Mary Bass helpthe Loches celebrate the return of war-hero son, Harold. Louise Benjamin, tells an Arizona ranchers wife, Curry, the secrets of beauty in a dry A retired couple, the J. L. Blair*, plan new Floridahome with interim decoratingedilm Henrietta Murdock. BEHIND THE SCENES T THE Journal this month celebrates a centennial: This is the hundredthissue of How America Lives. In a little over eight years, more than a hundred families have been portrayed for you: each one truly representative of life in America;

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. The Ladies' home journal. Writer Joe Furnas and editor Mary Bass helpthe Loches celebrate the return of war-hero son, Harold. Louise Benjamin, tells an Arizona ranchers wife, Curry, the secrets of beauty in a dry A retired couple, the J. L. Blair*, plan new Floridahome with interim decoratingedilm Henrietta Murdock. BEHIND THE SCENES T THE Journal this month celebrates a centennial: This is the hundredthissue of How America Lives. In a little over eight years, more than a hundred families have been portrayed for you: each one truly representative of life in America;each one faithfully caught against its actual background. Engaged in theirceaseless struggles with budgets, with child rearing; happy and sad, suc-ceeding, failing—yet sustained like most Americans by a sense ofsatisfaction, of triumph at times, in having overcome so many of lifespotential disasters—these families have passed through the Journal pagesto create the most widely read magazine feature in the world. And now as we leaf back over the series from the beginning to the pres-ent, following one family after another through all these words and pictures,the effect is of an epoch unfolding, of history made explicit through peo

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