Word: coverers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number that identifies Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn on this week's cover is the same number that identified him all through his long years in a forced-labor camp. The serial style of the portrait, with its four panels showing Solzhenitsyn emerging from the faceless anonymity of the political prisoner, is an equally precise identification of the artist: Texas-born James Gill...
...Having a sports figure on your cover [Sept. 13] is jinx enough. But dated Friday the 13th, it must be twice as jinxed. Apparently, this did not hinder Denny McLain in achieving his 30th victory. Just add 13, the date on the cover, plus 17 from his uniform and you get the magic number...
...humor, notably one episode that is a bitter comment on the outside world's long gullibility about Soviet Russia. Two prisoners invent a fantasy about a visit by Eleanor Roosevelt to Moscow's Butyrki Prison, just after the war. Inmates are washed in "Lilac Fairy" soap, offered wigs to cover their shaved heads. Their cells are temporarily transformed into elegant salons with foreign magazines on their coffee tables. When Mrs. Roosevelt picks out at random a man and asks what he is being punished for, the prison governor replies that he was a Gestapo agent who burned down a Russian...
Vanishing Sting. Yet no paper managed to cover Texas with more vigor, enthusiasm and sensitivity. Only the Observer, Morris says, ever bothered to show any interest "in the last words of a 17-year-old rapist on death row, or in the terror of a seven-year-old Negro child in an adult ward for the mentally ill, or in what Norman Mailer said or did not say to the college students in Austin." Unabashedly liberal and outspoken, the weekly was often exasperating, sometimes wrong, never humdrum or stale...
Dean Ford said last summer that the University would increase scholarship aid next year, but not enough to cover the entire $400 raise...