Notice what this picture doesn't have? I mean aside from women or minorities?

Before the newsie is a fireman, a police officer, a grocer, a milkman and a postman. All good, honorable blue collar jobs. But there are no surgeons or scientists or athletes.

And if you squint real hard you'll see everyone in this picture disappear, except the cop and the fireman. The last 70 years have been tough on the rest of these industries.

While we're on the subject of political correctness ... how about the size of that church steeple on the cover? You can see it from space. This might be the last time that happened.

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