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...three years ago, when we noticed that nearly half TIME'S cover portraits were people who had broken into the news too recently to be generally recognized (for example, when we put Cuba's strong man Batista on the cover with his army shirt unbuttoned, many readers mistook him for a new baseball star). So back in 1940 we started painting symbols into our covers to help our readers recognize our man of the week more easily and to give them a clue as to why we had chosen him. Perhaps you remember the cover with which this...
...Young Glory. Hurd was perplexed between the rich advances offered him by Publisher H. H. Ramsay and more modest prospects which would make serious writing possible. Ramsay's brash, glittering daughter Barbara attracted him. When she turned him down, he ran to his second cousin Mary for comfort, mistook his infantilism for love, deceived Mary to boot. He married Barbara. Mary moved into spinsterhood, scientific work and philanthropy, became in the end an impressive woman...
...Author Edna Ferber, he was a "New Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." To Novelist Charles Brackett, he seemed "a competent old horror with a style that combined clear treacle and pure black bile." Critic Percy Hammond found him "a mountainous jelly of hips, jowls and torso [but with] brains sinewy and athletic." Caustic Wit Dorothy Parker thought that he did "more kindness" than anyone she had ever known...
...after endless day dawned without a sign of a vessel. The children sang. Men & women raised their croaking voices with them. Finally a destroyer appeared. It mistook the raft for a submarine and began shelling it, realized the error and picked up the half-dead voyagers...
...Both Barrels ( see cut} is modern chewing-gum art, minus the latter's peppermint flavor. Workers in five New Jersey plants on whom it was tested came up with the conclusion that Illustrator Carlu meant to depict the FBI's fight against crime. They mistook the riveter for a gangster...