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After receiving the third magazine??cover in a row with a white background, I have to say, How boring. Half the fun of getting the magazine is guessing what will be on the cover and then seeing what TIME has chosen. I understand the red and blue Venn diagram, but it looks terrible on my coffee table. I hope the Person of the Year cover will not be an abstract artist's caricature of somebody on a white background. If I want to see that kind of art, I'll go to a museum...
...clapped a hand over its heart, uttered a piercing scream, and slipped on the largest banana peel since Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations." Yet, surprisingly, the magazine prospered in that dramatically inopportune time. Even at $1 a copy?then an unheard-of price for a magazine???businessmen bought FORTUNE with amazing regularity...
...landed a job with the subscription department of Esquire magazine. But when, after several months, he asked for a $5-a-week raise, he was turned down. He went to work briefly for a publication called Children's Activities, but he decided it was time to start his own magazine???and not for kids. In 1953 he hocked his furniture for $600, scraped together $10,000. He later persuaded a talented designer, Art Paul, to become his art director. Most other magazines for men concentrated on the outdoors, so he shrewdly decided to take up where Esquire had left...
...them to a place other than Heaven by reason of their possessing, in all innocence, the "wrong" faith. Shades of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt the First, McKinley, Coolidge?all consigned to limbo by TIME for not being Catholics. We live in a strange era. And TIME is becoming a "strange" magazine???not to say "queer." C. M. JOXES...
...splendor of granite towers watched his adolescence. He was born in Philadelphia, in 1860, and worked as a clerk in a railroad office, studying when he had time in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He sold his first drawings?some illustrations for a story in the Century Magazine???when he was 21. Two years later he went abroad to draw the illustrations for William Dean Howell's Tuscan Cities, and remained for some time on the Continent, living in Paris, in Italy. He knew Henry James in the days when that sensitive young man was trying to recover from...