Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME has stressed its interest in people by putting a picture of a person on almost every one of its 1,360 covers. Some exceptions: Cartographer Bob Chapin's maps of Paris (Sept. 4, 1944) and Jerusalem (Aug. 26, 1946), Japan's setting sun (Aug. 20, 1945). TIME covers are a special responsibility of Assistant Managing Editor Dana Tasker. He presides at weekly cover conferences at which editors pick cover subjects, sometimes weeks, sometimes months in advance. Then he and one of the three cover artists-Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff and Boris Chaliapin-decide on the symbolism...
...reader. Before he scribbles TSM on the upper righthand corner of the copy, Matthews has to understand the story, to believe it, and to admit grudgingly that its language is as clear, forceful and readable as it can reasonably be made. His taste sets TIME'S style, his interest and values have an important (but not by any means the only) influence on what TIME says. Editors, writers, correspondents, researchers are all entitled to a hearing on disputed points. Victory is supposed to go to the most sense-making argument...
...journalists (even the women at the well) select facts. The myth, or fad, of "objectivity" tends to conceal the selection, to kid the reader into a belief that he is being informed by an agency above human frailty or human interest...
...interest in the new, particularly in ideas...
...Office of Alien Property seized the two AKU subsidiaries. The Dutch protested, but when OAP proved that one-third of AKU's stock had been German-owned, the Dutch waived rights to one-third of AKU's holdings. This gave the Office of Alien Property controlling interest in North American and Bemberg, which are jointly managed. (The Dutch got AKU's other U.S. subsidiary, American Enka Corp.) No sooner had the Government taken over when a squabble broke out between the board of directors and OAP Boss David L. Bazelon, a New Dealing lawyer who had given...