Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tribune, it had the biggest circulation in town and was holding it. But the Herald's news coverage had gone dull after the whoopdedoo of the Heirens murder case. Sex crimes got big headlines now & again, but the news lacked the red-and-saffron splashes of rich detail that had won the Herald its readers...
...result of the ensuing conversation, as illustrated by the Lilienthal cover, may or may not be what atomic energy looks like (they agreed it was purple and yellow), but it serves to illuminate the kind of thought and detail that go into the making of our covers. After eight years they have evolved into a new kind of journalistic portraiture that has become TIME'S trademark. To try to answer the scores of inquiries we regularly receive from you about them, I want to take this and the following letter to discuss our covers...
...Canada's 3,695,000 square miles, only 5% have ever been mapped in detail on an inch-per-mile scale. There are still enormous areas in the north and west where rivers, lakes and topographical contours are uncharted, or marked only by dotted lines-the cartographer's indication of uncertainty...
...McFarland was a wartime consultant to the Navy and the Civil Aeronautics Authority; he also developed tests for selecting and training pilots. He thinks that airplane makers have paid far too little attention to adapting planes to the limitations of the human body. His book examines in detail the punishment that flying inflicts on people...
Linden, where Elliot Paul grew up, is an outlying part of the city of Malden, Mass., on the outskirts of Boston. Employing either the faculty of total recall or a ready knack for improvisation, Paul sets down in detail a persuasive picture of New England life at the turn of the century. Author Paul is essentially a yarn-spinner, and Linden is largely a string of amusing and often indelicate anecdotes, but those who knew the area and the people will vouch for the genuine flavor...