Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merely coincidence that the cover of Dr. Rhoads appeared when the sign of Cancer (June 22-July 21) was in the ascendancy...
When TIME'S editors decided to do a cover story on the fight against cancer, they were confronted with any number of first-rate men and institutions from which to select their cover subject. Manhattan's Memorial Hospital was chosen because it offered a complete cross-section of modern cancer research, and its director, Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, was a leading symbol of this effort...
...story was assigned to TIME'S Science editor, Jonathan Norton Leonard. Like his recent cover stories on Astronomer Edwin Hubble (TIME, Feb. 9, 1948) and Jet Pilot Charles Yeager (TIME, April 18), this one meant that he had to immerse himself quickly in a serious, highly technical...
...Rhoads read the scientific sections of the cover story before publication and found no error in them. After the issue was on the newsstands the father of one Memorial patient, a 16-year-old boy, read the story and set out to buy 100 newsstand copies to send to friends...
Reader's Digest asked and was given permission to reprint the story. Later, after all concerned at Memorial Hospital had had a chance to read and discuss it, we were asked if we could supply Memorial with 450,000 reprints of the story and its cover portrait...