Henry Luce and his partner in the 1930’s, building on their success in founding TIME magazine first and Fortune magazine just a few years later. All huge successes in both readership, paid subscriptions, newstand sales and advertising revenues.
There was a 19th Century humor magazine called “Life” for a couple of decades that was a modest success.
The Milton Bradley board game “Life” was invented in the 1950’s by a team rather than an individual I think.
The Quaker Oats “Life” cereal is an extruded oat grain baked cereal so not much of an innovation beyond Nabisco “Shredded Wheat” and “Chex” cereals.
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