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Bravo to Artist Artzybasheff for his excellent background for the O'Dwyer cover! And a big Bronx Cheer to whoever penned the cover story. He should go back to Lower Slobovia...
...setting sun (Aug. 20, 1945). TIME covers are a special responsibility of Assistant Managing Editor Dana Tasker. He presides at weekly cover conferences at which editors pick cover subjects, sometimes weeks, sometimes months in advance. Then he and one of the three cover artists-Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff and Boris Chaliapin-decide on the symbolism to accompany the portrait (e.g., for Petrillo, a foot stepping on a pile of phonograph records). Most TIME cover stories are written and edited by the regular staffs of the section in which they appear. Certain cover stories, that present special difficulties or call...
...Artist Artzybasheff can retire on the merits of the Gromyko cover alone (TIME, Aug. 18). The significance of the worm, Veto, devouring the fruit of the olive branch, hit me right between the eyes...
While Boris Artzybasheff was painting his cover of David Lilienthal for TIME'S Aug. 4 issue, he telephoned Assistant Managing Editor Dana Tasker and asked: "What color do you think atomic energy...
...more than a year, Baker sweated out the bulk of these new covers. Then, Artzybasheff and Boris Chaliapin came along to contribute their respective talents. Tasker was, and is, liaison man, interpreting his and the editors' ideas to the artists and vice versa. With Baker's third cover (April 24, 1939) a symbolic swastika was inserted in the background of the Heinrich Himmler portrait. From that time on interpretive symbolism has been an increasingly significant part of the cover-to help identify portraits not immediately familiar to everybody, and to highlight the cover subjects' current news value...