Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seldom have any criticism of TIME, and I hesitate even to make mention of one matter that came up last night when I received the last copy and saw the face of that man, John L. Lewis on the front cover. . . . No doubt he has friends among the labor unions...
...front cover...
...TIME was a breath of untainted fresh air. Even the first issues, curious as they are to look back on, brought an influx of letters from readers who-surprisingly to the editors-said they were already devoted to TIME. They harped on the fact that they read it from "cover to cover" (see p. 4). One of the first to use the phrase was Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin. Among the other early enthusiasts famous enough to turn young editors' heads were Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Van Dyke, Newton D. Baker, Mrs. Elizabeth Marbury, Thomas Edison, Archbishop Michael J. Curley, Bernard...
...last week of February 1923, a handful of young men, none more than three years out of college, were frantically putting together the first issue of the first newsmagazine. A few days earlier someone had remembered that a magazine must have a cover, and an artist had been commissioned to design one. He submitted only a rough sketch. On both sides of a portrait there was to be an elaborate arrangement of sundials, hourglasses, other time-symbols. To suggest the general idea, the artist had sketched in some "spinach." Uncertain about the symbols, the editors decided to use the spinach...
...into TIME. As money was earned it was spent to improve the quality of the magazine. The editorial cost of producing an issue of TIME is today just about 50 times as great as 15 years ago. In fact the expert color photographs used nowadays on TIME'S cover often cost more than the entire editorial department in the first issue...