Word: coverers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days early in 1964, Graphics Designer Dennis Wheeler kept himself busy tearing up old TIME covers. From the bits and pieces of back issues, he pasted up a collage -a poster designed to advertise TIME'S traveling art show of original cover portraits. But TIME'S editors were not quite satisfied with the result of his assault on other artists' visions of various personalities. "My God," said one critic, "he ripped Senator Javits right in half...
Wheeler's poster was not used. Even so, the basic plan stuck with him. Collage seemed to him to be an ideal way to convey a complex idea. Moreover, it was a technique with which he could work quickly. So when he was asked to try a cover on the bombing halt, Wheeler was ready the next day with five different versions. The following day, he finished three more. The collage that was finally chosen shows President Johnson framed by a raggedly outlined bomb. The red octagonal shape that makes up the background is the familiar roadside stop sign...
Although this is his first appearance as a TIME cover artist, Wheeler, 33, considers himself an alumnus of Time Inc. Not long after he graduated from Brooklyn's Pratt Institute, he went to work for LIFE. While there, he designed the series of advertisements that showed the LIFE logotype cutout of a long catalogue of items: IBM cards, theater tickets, miniature flags. Those Wheeler cutouts are now in the collections of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum...
Good for Morale. Just why Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser should fan his people's warlike mood and risk Israeli retaliation could only be a matter of speculation. Certainly the duel improved home-front morale and Nasser's political position. It also provided training. Under cover of the Suez barrage, about 70 soldiers crossed the canal and staged an ambush, killing two Israeli soldiers. But the most intricate theory had it that Nasser had been put up to it by his Russian advisers as a warm-up for an attempt to clear the Suez by force...
...Basically, we're very shy people," said Japanese Artist Yoko Ono after she and John Lennon stirred a furor by posing for the nude photos on the cover of a Beatle-produced album, The Two Virgins. Now the shy couple have announced they are expecting a baby in the spring. Said John, who is being sued for divorce by wife Cynthia: "Babies make the world happier and that's our scene...