Notable Historical Events
Sylvia Plath submitted forty-five pieces to Seventeen before her first short story, "And Summer Will Not Come Again", was published in the August 1950 issue.
In 2010, writer Jamie Keiles conducted The Seventeen Magazine Project, a social experiment in which she followed the advice of Seventeen magazine for 30 days.
In the eary 1980's, Whitney Houston appeared in Seventeen and became one of the first black women to grace the cover of the magazine.
In 2012, in response to reader protests against the magazine's altering of Seventeen Magazine model photos, the magazine pledged not to Photoshop model photos published in the magazine.
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“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after the forms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.”
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“Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.”
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