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1981
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May 12, 2016 · An Interview With Jan Smithers, Newsweek Teen Cover Star in 1966. May 12, 2016 at 4:35 AM EDT. After Jan Smithers appeared on the cover of Newsweek in 1966, Hollywood called. She...
May 12, 2016 · Here's what they remember from that groundbreaking story. Photographer Julian Wasser, who snapped the cover image of California girl Jan Smithers sitting on the back of a motorcycle, has ...
Smithers first reached the public eye as a teenager when, at 16, she was profiled and featured on the March 21, 1966 cover of Newsweek seated on the back of a motorcycle. She received offers from Hollywood agents as a result of that appearance. Smithers graduated from the Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California.
Jan was featured on the cover of the March 21, 1966 edition 'Newsweek,' an American weekly magazine. An article in the magazine, titled 'The Teen-Agers: A Newsweek Survey of What They’re Really Like,' profiled Jan and six more teenagers.
May 27, 2016 · IT TOOK THE ASSISTANCE of half a dozen people and months of dead ends to track down Jan Smithers, by far the most famous of the six teenagers Newsweek profiled in 1966. After appearing on the cover of Newsweek’s teen issue—blond, sun-kissed, seated on a motorcycle and flashing a killer smile—smithers received calls from “many, many ...
A couple of years later, Smithers was interviewed by Newsweek reporter David Moberg for a story about typical American teenagers in the 1960s. She was photographed happily riding on the back of a friend's motorcycle by Julian Wasser. That carefree looking shot made the cover of the March 21, 1966 issue of the magazine.
May 12, 2016 · In 1966, Newsweek published a landmark cover story, "The Teen-Agers: A Newsweek Survey of What They're Really Like," investigating everything from politics and pop culture to teens' views on their ...
Jan 8, 2011 · This special March of '66 issue of NEWSWEEK highlighted a major study of teenagers, that strange race then poised to take over the world. The cover of the issue featured 17 year old Jan Smithers, a typical high school student, who, more than a decade later, would play the smart and delightful Bailey Quarters on the hit sitcom, WKRP IN CINCINNATI.
Photographer Julian Wasser explains how he found California cover girl and future actress Jan Smithers (Bailey Quarters in WKRP in Cincinnati); reporter David Morberg retraces his interview...
Dec 17, 2016 · Bailey was played by Jan Smithers – who, it just happens, is the 16-year-old girl riding the motorcycle on the cover. Inside, she’s afforded a mini-profile in a section titled “Six Faces of Youth”: “Beneath the Fluoristan smile, Jan worries.
