Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adam and Eve started [populating] about 4,000 B.C. and had been reasonably fertile, if we had had a 10% increase per generation, we would now have-unless my slide rule slipped-a population as densely packed as this auditorium, leaving out the aisles. It would cover the entire earth, deserts and oceans 15 layers deep...
Seldom has a National Affairs cover story in TIME been done without any help from the subject. In the case of Communist leader Eugene Dennis (TIME, April 25), however, it had to be that way. Three weeks before the story was due Researcher Blanche Finn asked Dennis for an interview. He turned the matter over to his publicity man, who asked Miss Finn to submit her questions in writing. She did. The publicity man took one look at the questions, declared they were "too knowing," and refused to give the answers...
Enclosed please find the cover ... I just can't read the magazine with that hideous picture staring at me, nor can I put it aside for it is sure to glare...
...cover to cover reader of TIME, I found the following in the Books section of your issue of April 19, 1948: 'This speedy, thrilling novel begins with a courtship so disarmingly warm and sunny that no reader will dream of the horrors lying in wait . . . Few readers will be able to put down Conspirator before they have reached the last gasp...
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