Word: coverers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S difficulties with the Government of President Juan Domingo Perón began when the Aug. 18, 1947 issue of TIME was banned from Argentine newsstands and the mails without official explanation. We think that this was a delayed result of TIME'S July 14, 1947 cover story on Evita Perón, the President's wife...
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Manhattan's skyline, he wrote, consisted of "high skyscrapers and the glitter of electric advertising . . . intended to daze the unprepared visitor and muddle his ideas." Manhattan's culture provided "pseudoscientific pamphlets decorated with a standard cover: a painted man indecently kissing a woman." Even the kids were corrupt. "Steel handcuffs for small children," he reported, "attracted our attention in a toyshop...
Georgia-born Reporter Johnson, 44, whose drawl and easygoing manner hide a bulldog tenacity, was neither a crime specialist nor an I-cover-the-waterfront expert when he started. He was a general-assignment man who had served the Sun for 20 years, on everything from the burning of the Morro Castle to the storming of Okinawa. In a 1946 series on hijacking, he had picked up some waterfront contacts. Using them, he started his digging into waterfront crime...
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