Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Please keep trombones, ropes and pictures of piano teachers off the cover at a time when our country is in an international crisis...
...often write a fan letter, but I'd like to congratulate whoever wrote the story in the July 21 issue of TIME on The Music Man. It was brilliantly done from start to finish, and the cover made me roar with laughter. The article was just as great Americana as is the play...
There is a little action, a climactic scene, Anthony's self-realization ("by means of self-betrayals," notes Guerard on the jacket cover), and his whipped-dog return to the chambermaid...
...John Foster Dulles, William Howard Taft, Charles Dana Gibson, Luther Burbank, Thomas A. Edison; of a heart attack; in Pelham, N.Y. "Obie" Oberhardt's portrait of the late Joseph G. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, onetime (1903-11) Speaker of the House of Representatives, appeared on TIME'S first cover, March 3, 1923. Drawing VIPs one after another in one-hour sessions, Oberhardt learned to control his awed nerves by recalling the dry advice of one of his portrait subjects, Inventor Hudson Maxim: "The more you get to know celebrities, the more you will find their halo hanging over...
...most attractive promotion bait offered this summer is a $1,000 life insurance policy, written by Lloyd's of London to cover "the death by fright of any member of the audience." The movie: Macabre, a pallor game played by a mad M.D. When Macabre's Producer William Castle first tried to insure every human being on earth, Lloyd's was chilly. Lloyd's dickered with Castle over an estimate of the number of deaths that would occur, finally settled for an actuarially comfortable eight, made the premium $15,000. No bereaved heir has yet made...