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Frankly, I like a smiling Adlai Stevenson such as I saw last week at a Westchester picnic; riding a kiddie train, making witty comments-but the serious portrait by James Chapin on the July 16 cover is superb. Let me also thank you for your very fair-minded feature story on the governor. I have not a doubt in the world but that this vastly intelligent, capable, honest man is destined to be the next occupant of the White House...
...Kubitschek," said John L. Steele, our White House correspondent, "sat on a couch in Dwight Eisenhower's office and studied Chapin's chart. After that, in a skull session which may serve him well in setting up his own administration in Brazil, he followed the chart, actually walking from office to office to trace the course that a piece of executive business would take to the President's desk...
President-elect Kubitschek is not the first to discover how well Bob Chapin's charts and maps can clarify a subject, from geography or medicine to economics or government. Among the reprint requests that come to my office each month, many ask permission to use TIME'S charts and maps. Since Chapin joined our staff in 1937, his work has been reproduced by foreign governments, the U.S. State Department, Air Force, Army, Navy, numerous universities, and publishers of textbooks and encyclopedias. At the moment he is devoting his spare " time to a four-color map in global perspective...
...Chapin started out to become an architect (University of Pennsylvania '33), but taught himself to draw maps when the building business dried up during the Depression. He still finds time to design an occasional house, including his own at Sharon, Conn. "Bob Chapin is far more than a cartographer," says Houghton Mifflin's Textbook Editor William E. Spaulding. "He approaches the job of illustrating in the spirit of a constructive and imaginative teacher...
...TIME (cover map of liberated Paris, Sept. 4, 1944, and the map of Jerusalem cover, Aug. 26, 1946) has been so prolific in the past 18 years that some readers can't believe it was done by one man - or even one generation. One reader wrote Chapin: "I've enjoyed the maps that you and your father have done for TIME...