Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S Books editor, Max Gissen, and Researcher Ruth Mehrtens have found the ideal locale for interviewing a TIME cover subject: an uninhabited island in the Caribbean. It is completely relaxing, and there are no interruptions...
Their discovery occurred during the long interrogation of Author John P. Marquand for his cover story in this issue. In Marquand's case there was a great deal of controversial material to be gone over, and Gissen's and Miss Mehrtens' talks with him, which began in TIME'S offices in Manhattan, were by no means finished when it was time for the Marquands to go to Nassau for their winter vacation. So the conversations were continued in Nassau. The most successful of them took place the day that Author Marquand hired a sloop and conveyed...
When Books editor Gissen, who gets around as much as any good reporter, left John Marquand in Nassau to fly back to New York to write his story, the author asked to have lunch with him and Miss Mehrtens in Manhattan on the day TIME and the Marquand cover would appear on the newsstands. "Thinking about it on the way home," said Gissen, "it occurred to me that I would have to meet him with a copy of TIME in my hand and that that might turn out to be the bravest thing I've ever...
Before the storm broke, the Senate hustled to get some of its cargo under cover. After 3½ weeks of listening to 50 witnesses, the Senate Labor Committee got down to the business of writing a new labor law to replace Taft-Hartley. The Banking Committee, with the support of 22 Senators from both sides of the aisle, brought out a housing bill which would provide 810,000 low-rent housing units by 1955, just about halfway between Harry Truman's request and Republican counterproposals...
...Cover Up (United Artists) is a doubtful little melodrama with a doubtful moral thesis: murder is excusable when the victim is an unpopular curmudgeon. The film's makers avoid an out & out tussle with the Johnston Office by killing off the murderer, a kindly old doctor, before Insurance Investigator Dennis O'Keefe can catch up with him. But, preoccupied with Dennis' courtship of a suspect's daughter (Barbara Britton), they blithely overlook the fact that a local banker was an accessory to murder and that Sheriff William Bendix shut his eyes to the crime. The rather...