One of America's "big three" weekly newsmagazines, Newsweek was founded in 1933, the same year that saw the launch of its rival United States News (later merged with World Report), and just ten years after the newsweekly genre had been established with the appearance of Henry Luce's Time in 1923. The magazine was originally named News-Week by founder Thomas J. C. Martyn, Time's first foreign news editor. News-Week's first issue, on February 17, 1933, featured seven photographs of current events on its cover. Four years later, in 1937, the publication merged with Raymond Moley's Today magazine and, with Vincent Astor as its president, changed its name to Newsweek. Moley had been a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Brain Trust," and the editorial slant of the fledgling publication became generally more liberal than that of Time, though the two publications resembled each other in format and general appearance. Newsweek tried to...