Thanks for Tiger Beat.

You'd better believe I read Tiger Beat, the first issue of which looked like this:



It was September 1965, and I was 14.

... Tiger Beat had it all covered — or at least what mattered most to girls from about 8 to 14. The Beach Boys’ loves! Jan and Dean’s comeback! The private lives of the Beatles!...

Its mainstay... was “guys in their 20s singing La La songs to 13-year-old girls”...

[S]ome things never change: the cluttered collages of the covers of his day featuring the likes of David Cassidy and Bobby Sherman bear a striking resemblance to today’s Tiger Beat, with its endless renderings of Justin Bieber.

From the NYT obituary of Charles Laufer, the founder of Tiger Beat, who died at age 87.

ADDED: If the idea was cute boys for young girls, it's hilarious that the first cover featured the Righteous Brothers. They look like Mitt Romney and Mitch Daniels.

IN THE COMMENTS: As my whimsy leads me says:

"Read" in the present or past tense sense? (Imagining Althouse poring over her 40+ year old stash of Tiger Beats when needing a quick pick-me-up.) 

LOL.