Six Sunday Morning Stories Worth Lingering Over This Week
It’s CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley time — and this round of INYIM picks is exactly why the show remains one of television’s great little escape hatches. We pulled six stories built to fuel the brain, the imagination and a little casual-whimsy Sunday wandering.
This week’s INYIM six zigzag from the distinctly Finnish designs of Marimekko to the anatomy of a proper Philadelphia hoagie, then move through old maps, an adobe renaissance, the very best and very worst of the automotive world, and — last but certainly never least — Marilyn Monroe at 100.
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Design, food, history, architecture, cars and Marilyn Monroe — six CBS Sunday Morning stories that made us stop, watch and wander a little longer.
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1. The Distinctly Finnish Designs of Marimekko
Bold, graphic, unmistakably Finnish. Marimekko has spent 75 years turning fabrics, housewares and fashion into a visual language all its own. Correspondent Seth Doane heads to Finland to trace how the company’s joyful patterns became an international design signature — the kind of print you can spot from across a room before you even see the label.
CBS Sunday Morning’s Marimekko segment originally aired May 17, 2026.
2. Making a Proper Philadelphia Hoagie
There are sandwiches, and then there are sandwiches with rules. Liberty Kitchen executive chef Beau Neidhardt shows correspondent Susan Spencer how to build a proper Philadelphia-style hoagie while the segment dips into the sandwich’s local lore — including the story that shipyard workers were packing versions of it for lunch during World War I. We came for the food history. We stayed because now lunch suddenly feels inadequate.
3. Understanding the World Through Old Maps
The Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine holds roughly half a million rare maps, globes and atlases, some dating back to the 15th century. Correspondent Martha Teichner looks at maps as more than directions: they can be whimsical, political, distorted, aspirational and deeply revealing about the people who made them. GPS may tell us where to go; an old map can tell us how somebody once thought the world worked.
4. An Adobe Renaissance Gets Very Modern
One of the oldest building materials on Earth is having a very now moment. Correspondent Conor Knighton looks at adobe — mudbrick construction used across civilizations for thousands of years — and how architects, museum projects and DIY builders are bringing earth construction back into conversation. The especially fascinating twist: ancient materials are now crossing paths with 3-D printing techniques. Old dirt, new tricks.
5. The Best — and Worst — of the Automotive World
Correspondent Lee Cowan gets both ends of car culture in one trip. First: Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, where some of the most valuable collector cars in the world are treated like rolling fine art. Then, just a few miles away: Concours d’LeMons, a loving celebration of the less desirable, less loved and considerably less expensive. One crowns best in show. The other proudly finds a worst in show. Balance.
6. Marilyn Monroe at 100: The Blueprint Still Holds
And then there is Marilyn. Norma Jeane Baker died in 1962 at only 36, but the image, films, fashion and machinery of Marilyn Monroe celebrity have never really stopped moving. To mark the centenary of her birth, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures launched “Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon”, and correspondent Tracy Smith speaks with people studying her life and preserving the film persona that became a blueprint for modern fame. A century later, everybody still knows the face.
Watch CBS Sunday Morning’s “Marilyn Monroe at 100”
Tracy Smith looks at Monroe’s centenary, her enduring screen image and the Academy Museum exhibition “Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon.”
Source: CBS News Sunday Morning.
