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...In the 1940s Neva Burright gained attention as a harness-racing grandmother. But by that time she had been competing in the sport for decades, and she had been around horse tracks from the beginning of her life—quite literally Burright was born on th...

...Marcel Duchamp arrived on the scene in the early part of the 20th century with brash works intended to upset the art establishment. The most famous of these works were his "ready-mades." These were store-bought objects which he presented as sculpture...

...By 1964 Sophia Loren had been a longtime favorite of LIFE readers, and Marcello Mastroianni was having his moment too. In its Jan. 18, 1963 issue the magazine had introduced the star of Fellini films such as La Dolce Vita to readers with a breathless...

...The Great Salt Lake in Utah is not what it used to be—not thousands of years ago, when it was a vast inland sea, and not 70 years ago either, when LIFE magazine devoted a large feature to this unique element of the American landscape. It is still the...

...Muhammad Ali was much more than a championship boxer. He was also a natural entertainer. In February 1963, a year before he changed his name, LIFE magazine wrote "Cassius Clay has the loudest—and most lyrical—mouth in the history of boxing and the fi...

...In 1974 music critic Jon Landau went to a Bruce Springsteen live show and famously declared that he had seen the future of rock and roll. At that point Springsteen was two albums into his career and still in the process of building his audience. The ...

...Golf in the 1960s was defined by the rivalry between two of the game's titans. On the one side was the wildly popular Arnold Palmer, who came up in the 1950s and was golf's first superstar of the television age. Then there was Jack Nicklaus, who was ...

...In 1956, just as the age of Elvis Presley was dawning, classical music offered the world its own young superstar—one whose music would make a mark in a different but also enduring way. Pianist Glenn Gould made his debut recording at age 23 with one o...

...Not only did Rollie Free set the world speed record for a motorcycle back in 1948—he looked darn good doing it. The key to setting the record for Free was cutting down on wind resistance. So when the 47-year-old accelerated his Vincent HRD Black Shad...

..."Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life." Prince invoked those words at the beginning of his song Let's Go Crazy, which opened Purple Rain (both the movie and the album). Even though Prince had been making re...