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...DEPARTMENT COVER COORdinator, Linda Freeman, received a phone call from Maurice Skinazi, an international businessman and art collector. Mr. Skinazi suggested that if by any chance TIME was going to do a story on the Rio summit, we should consider using something painted by his friend, Brazilian painter Lia Mittarakis...
...were in need of a cover illustration. Freeman asked Skinazi to send a transparency of the painting. Even though TIME rarely uses unsolicited artwork for the cover, the simple beauty of this painting delighted everyone, and art director Rudolph Hoglund decided to use it. "Before I told Lia about the situation, I asked her to name the most famous magazine in the world, and of course she said TIME," recalls Skinazi. "She was simply elated that you would consider her painting for the cover...
...picked up some other nicknames from the family, including the creative "Joe-Nathan." While 'Joe-Nathan" was my dad's attempt at a little humor, my baby sister presented me with a gem of a name-- "Ga-lia-ga"--because she couldn't pronounce "Jonathan. " You go figure the similarity. We've tried for the last 15 years...
...that of his father. Yet each life is gallant for its own reasons. Christos Gatzoyiannis passed through Ellis Island first in 1910, and again in 1938. He headed for Worcester, Mass., where he built a steady vegetable-delivery business while his wife remained in the northwestern Greek town of Lia. It was not uncommon for married immigrant men to settle in America before sending for their families, although Gatzoyiannis took much longer than most. He returned periodically to Greece, where he played the rich American and sired four daughters and the author, born Nikola. During one of the visits...
...Lia, however, the myth of the New World plutocrat persisted. This was still the impression that Gatzoyiannis gave when he met the boat that carried his motherless children from Piraeus to New York City in 1949. Gage, then nine, recalls his father's "gleaming black oxfords, gray overcoat, and broad fedora -- an island of style in a sea of weeping and embracing refugees." The reunited family boarded a new blue DeSoto for the ride to Worcester. The car turned out to be rented, the old mill town no Athens, and Christos Gatzoyiannis no big shot...