John Stuart Martin

John Stuart Martin was managing editor of TIME magazine until 1938, and the author of several books, including The Home Owners Tree Book, General Manpower Inc.; Learning to Gun: A Plain ‐ Spoken Manual for the Ardent but Unaccomplished, and a series of picture histories for Crown Publishers.

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He Paints With Lakes And Wooded Slopes…, October 1964 | Vol. 15, No. 6

Frederick Law Olmsted founded a new artistic profession in America. Today he is scarcely known by the millions who use and enjoy his works

Walter Camp And His Gridiron Game, October 1961 | Vol. 12, No. 6

Man and boy—as player, “coach of coaches,” and keeper of the rule book— he was the guiding genius in the crucial, formative years of college football

When The President Disappeared, October 1957 | Vol. 8, No. 6

While panic gripped the nation in 1893, Grover Cleveland suffered his own secret ordeal on a yacht in Long Island Sound.

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