2000 Death Jack Kroll, theater critic, Newsweek, dies at 73 1975 Event Covers of both Time and Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen 1974 Death Stewart Alsop, columnist and political analyst, worked for Saturday Evening Post and Newsweek, dies 1949 Event 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek) 1949 Event Microfilm copies of "Newsweek" magazine 1st offered 1933 Event 1st issue of Newsweek magazine published 1914 Birthday Stewart Alsop, born in Avon, Connecticut, columnist and political analyst, worked for Saturday Evening Post and Newsweek