This is the January 1964 issue of TRUE (“The Man’s Magazine”).
It features photos of previous TRUE covers on its cover, along with two cover
articles and actor Sterling Hayden’s book “Wanderer.”
There are other articles (A New Deal for an FDR Dream, How to Keep Castro Out of City Hall and America’s Paper Hero) and much more
inside the magazine, as well as color and black & white
photos/illustrations and vintage advertisements.
The magazine contains 124 pages and measures approximately
8.5 x 11 inches.
Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March
26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an actor, author, sailor, model and Marine. A
leading man for most of his career, he specialized in westerns and film noir
throughout the 1950s, in films such as John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950),
Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954), and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956).
He became noted for supporting roles in the 1960s, perhaps most memorably as
General Jack D. Ripper in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
Hayden's success continued into the New Hollywood era, with
roles such as Irish-American policeman Captain McCluskey in Francis Ford
Coppola's The Godfather (1972), alcoholic novelist Roger Wade in Robert
Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973), and elderly peasant Leo Dalcò in Bernardo
Bertolucci's 1900 (1976). With a distinctive "rapid-fire baritone"
voice and standing at 6 feet, 5 inches, he had a commanding screen presence in
both leading and supporting roles.
Hayden often professed a distaste for acting and used his
earnings to finance his numerous voyages as a sailor. He was also a decorated
Marine Corps officer and an Office of Strategic Services' agent during World
War II.
TRUE, also known as TRUE, THE MAN'S MAGAZINE, was published
by Fawcett Publications from 1937 until 1974. Known as True, A Man's Magazine
from the 1937-1959, it was labeled True, #1 Man's Magazine in the 1960s.
Petersen Publishing took over with the January 1975 issue. It was sold to
Magazine Associates in August 1975, and ceased publication shortly afterward.
High adventure, sports profiles and dramatic conflicts were
highlighted in articles, there were columns, miscellaneous features and regular
concluding pages: "This Funny Life," "Man to Man Answers,"
"Strange But True" and "True Goes Shopping."
In the early 1950s, Newsweek described it "a man's
magazine with a class all its own, and the largest circulation of the
bunch."