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Like Bing, Cover Artist Henry Koerner was born in Vienna and spent his vacation in the Dolomites-in the same area at the same time...
...meet until Paris, where Koerner painted his subject in seven hours of sittings over a period of three days. "A beautiful head, a very interesting head," was Koerner's dominant impression. Bing's concern was with the eyes. "I have sad eyes," he told Koerner, "but don't make them look afraid. I'm not afraid of anything...
While reporters and photographers were at work, so was Cover Artist Henry Koerner, whose difficult assignment was to express the determined U.S. presence in a painting. For five days, he hopped from Bien Hoa to Nha Trang, Cam Ranh Bay, Qui Nhon and An Khe. "Fantastic! Marvelous!" he would exclaim, using his two favorite words as he moved from base installation to command post to hill lookout sketching all the while. At one point a helicopter almost landed on half a dozen of his drawings spread out on the grass. "Please, please!" Koerner shouted at the whirling chopper Save...
...fighting zone, Koerner's plane also carried the bodies of a pilot and a photographer who had been killed the day before Back in Saigon, Koerner showed his sketches to Managing Editor Otto Fuerbringer, then touring Viet Nam. There was little question: the cover would be a scene near An Khe. At dawn next morning, just two weeks before press time for this issue, Koerner and Correspondent Zich were at Saigon airport trying to hitch a ride back to An Khe, where the artist would do the final oil painting from life. Ceiling zero, visibility less than 100 yards...
...after three years with the St. Petersburg, Fla., Times. He is a familiar figure around the space center in Houston, did most of his interviewing for this week's stories at the flight director's console in the Mission Operations Control Room (where Artist Henry Koerner painted the cover portrait). Wilford, 31, is a native of Kentucky, was University of Tennessee (B.S., '55) and Syracuse University (M.A.), joined TIME in 1962 after a stint with the Wall Street Journal. The kind of material he is busy with week after week is suggested by the fact that...