Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nicaragua's dictator was attending a small dinner party with a group of intimate friends at Managua's Nejapa Country Club when his Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs entered with a copy of the November 15th issue of TIME with Somoza's portrait on the cover. It had just arrived on the evening plane with that week's shipment for Nicaragua...
Somoza looked at his cover portrait and then turned the magazine over to a colleague, insisting that the cover story be read aloud so everyone could hear it. The colleague, translating from English into Spanish, had read about half of the story-amid considerable hilarity and joshing -when Somoza took over. Saying that the translation was not good enough, he proceeded to read the rest of the story himself, punctuating its adverse comment with his own remarks. He was happy to appear on TIME's cover and delighted that the issue would be on Nicaraguan newsstands on the 16th...
Throughout the five colorful Central American republics the Somoza story received maximum attention. All of the newspapers published either full translations of it, or excerpts from it, or commented upon it. La Estrella de Nicaragua (see cut) ran TIME'S cover on Page One, together with Bob Chapin's map (Somoza on the Spot) and a photograph of the Dictator and some cohorts reading the issue...
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Died. Samuel Johnson Woolf, 68, famed artist-journalist (mostly for the New York Times), author (Drawn from Life, Here Am I) and onetime cover artist for TIME; of lateral sclerosis; in Manhattan. Woolf scored a success with his World War I battlefield paintings, hit on the portrait-interview combination in 1927 with a story on George Bernard Shaw, went on to do some 500 for the Sunday Times...