The magazine George, which went out of business in 2005, had a good premise - studying the personal lives of politicians. We could really use such a magazine today.
I found this first issue interesting because some of the things it predicted in its pages have not come to pass. (I also thought it was interesting that a woman's naked breasts were shown in a two-page, Calvin Klein ad for CK one, a fragrance for men and women. Two skinny guys also stood there with their shirts off - big whoop. (Women did get a treat with an ad for Nightflight by Joop which showed the entire male form, and a muscular one to boot, but one leg is artfully placed to obscure what lies between! Ah well.)
There's an article about Russell, Kansas, where Bob Dole and Arlen Secter were born, and which speculated a Dole/Specter ticket for 1996.
Al Franken writes a humorous piece, one page long, on using senior citizens as astronauts. (Which is an excerpt from his book, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, due to be published in 1996).
There's an article about Denis Archer, the African American mayor of Detroit, and his hopes for the city, (but he would not run for re-election in 2001, according to WIkipedia.)
Actress Julie Roberts goes to Haiti on behalf of UNICEF. In 1995, just as impoverished and corrupt as it is today. Nothing changed in 15 years. WHere did all that money that was sent there in that time, go?
There's an article on the campaign of Republican Richard Lugar - who 15 years later is the Senior US senator from Indiana.
There's an article on Democrat David Wilhelm, a "confirmed bachelor" as Wikipedia refers to him today, who is "best known for managing campaigns for President Bill Clinton, Senator Paul Simon, Senator Joe Biden and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley."
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