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The core of the small founding editorial team included other editors, writers, photographers and photo editors from Life, which had ceased publication just 13 months earlier.

This group included managing editor Stolley, senior editors Hal Wingo ( father of ESPN anchor Trey Wingo ), Sam Angeloff ( the founding managing editor of Us magazine ), and Robert Emmett Ginna ( later a producer of films ); writers James Watters ( a theater reviewer ) and Ronald B. Scott ( later a biographer of Presidential candidate Mitt Romney ); former Time senior editor Richard Burgheim ( later the founder of Times ill-fated cable television magazine View ); Chief of Photography, a Life photographer, John Loengard, to be succeeded by John Dominus, a noteworthy Life staff photographer ; and design artist Bernard Waber, author and illustrator of the Lyle The Crocodile book series for children.

Many of the noteworthy Life photographers contributed to the magazine as well, including legends Alfred Eisenstaedt and Gjon Mili and rising stars Co Rentmeester, David Burnett and Bill Eppridge.

Other members of the first editorial staff included editors and writers: Ross Drake, Ralph Novak, Bina Bernard, James Jerome, Sally Moore, Lee Wohlfert, Joy Wansley, Curt Davis, and Jed Horne, later an editor of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans.