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Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs, to hardly anyone's surprise, is the female cover subject who sold more copies of TIME than any other during the past decade. But who was second? Brooke Shields? Geraldine Ferraro? Madonna? The answer is none of the above. It was Lisa Harap, who two years ago this week appeared alongside the questions "Babies: What do they know? When do they know it?" The accompanying story chronicled the efforts of researchers to understand how infants learn...
Instant celebrity did not ruffle the six-month-old cover girl. But her parents, William and Kathleen Harap of Queens Village, N.Y., were both elated and surprised. As Lisa's mother Kathleen, 32, said last week, "We thought the photographs were just for a story illustration, not the cover. Then weeks and weeks went by. When the issue came out, we nearly missed...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo sent a letter of congratulations to the Haraps, along with an I Love NY T shirt in Lisa's size. Mother and daughter appeared on a TV interview show in New York City, and numerous requests to film Lisa were received by her agent. But, says Kathleen, "they wanted a baby the same age as Lisa on the cover. By then, she had changed so much, she was no longer the right type...
...cover can still be seen on TV. It is used in a series of commercials for the magazine, including one that shows a man on a park bench reading the issue while an infant nearby stares at Lisa's picture. "Every time one of those ads runs," says Lisa's father William, 34, a New York City policeman, "we get phone calls from friends, and the guys at the precinct will say, 'Hey, I saw Lisa on TV again last night...
Photographing a baby has its special pitfalls, the chief of which is persuading Baby to stop squirming and smile on cue. Lisa, one of three infants of different types and charms photographed for TIME'S cover, was chosen by the editors for her wise, grownup look. She has subsequently appeared in print ads for a department store, in a catalog, and was filmed for a TV commercial...