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After a whole week of 75th-birthday hoopla, as he sent his son George W. Bush off to run for the presidency, he seemed (almost) ready to move on. "I don't think in terms of a dynasty or a great legacy," he said. "I think in terms of family. A lot of people ask me how George W.'s running for President and the possibility of him being in the White House will affect me. It won't impact me that much. I've been there. I've done that. I'm not entitled to a damn thing...
...then read, for the first time in years, the closing paragraphs of the 75th anniversary history of the Crimson...
...aren't CEOs. Our hours are not nine to five. We don't have offices up at 75th like a lot of other organizations. This shit is all day every day," Mission said...
Some of the choices were more unconventional. At TIME's 75th-anniversary party last year, BILL GATES said his career was particularly influenced by the Wright brothers--so he was chosen to write about them. And though TIME senior writer PAUL GRAY is no computer expert, he was picked to tell the tragic tale of Alan Turing. Says Elmer-DeWitt: "I needed someone who could break the readers' hearts...
...young woman and her son who escaped Iraq and a horrible marriage." Only after we sent a copy of the story did he reveal to us that "the little boy in the photo is me." Another photo intrigued an Argentine woman who asked about a picture in our 75th-anniversary issue showing a little girl receiving a polio shot. Even though the caption said the photo was taken in Alabama, and our reader had no recollection of ever having lived there, she thought, just maybe, it was she. Go figure...