Look

He left and went looking for a better deal.

Stanley went to the headquarters of a glossy magazine called Look.

It was kind of like Life Magazine, but less newsy, a mix of celebrity profiles and lifestyle stories.

There was an extremely nice picture editor there whose name was Helen O'Brien.

She thought she might be able to get me a job as an apprentice photographer.

Stanley left with $25 for his photograph and a job offer at Look Magazine.

Pretty solid payday.

It was astonishing.

In 1955, a jury in Summer, Mississippi acquitted two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Millam, of killing black teenager Emmett Till.

The two later admitted to the crime in an interview with Look magazine.

In 1957, nine black students who entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to leave under police escort because of a white mob outside.

The Little Rock Nine returned under federal troop escort two days later for the first full day of school.

So-

Look at that.

It worked.

Yes.

Uh, Kubrick sort of came to age, uh, in, in, you know, the, uh...

He, he was a photographer for his high school year book.

He was a terrible student, but he was a good photographer and actually got a, uh, a photo published, um, during Franklin Roosevelt's, from, fr- during Franklin Roosevelt's, um, funeral that was published in Look magazine.

So, even as a high school kid, he was already, was already kind of a star.

If you get beat up, I'll...

Look out there, 10-4.

Roger and out.

I'll tell it like it is.

you remember even october 2nd 1951 when thompson hit the home run and there was jackie waiting to see if he would touch home when all of the other dodgers had already gone heads bowed to that polo grounds clubhouse you remember How Jackie left baseball, how he had to, how the sports writers turned on this extraordinary man who had had bestiality heaped upon him through all of the years, particularly in the beginning with Ben Chapman, how the St. Louis Cardinals had tried deliberately to spike him.

Those are things you remember, but you remember how the sporting press turned upon him and said he had gone out fraudulently, he had defied the very character he had pretended to have.

Why? because the man had made an honest contractual commitment with Look Magazine, had gotten large-scale payment for it to protect himself and his family.

And he couldn't have been more honest.

And there had been a story about his retirement that he didn't like.

It was in Look magazine, I think, or something.

Bob Daly, the guy that wrote The Cruel Sport, had written.

And Bob was a very good friend of Phil's back in the days of the late 50s and 60s.

They had a lot of his stuff in charge.

And then he continues and says, Look Magazine.

Do you know anything about Look Magazine?

No.

I don't know anything about Look Magazine, actually.

Okay.

It's a magazine that was founded in Des Moines, Iowa in March of 1937.