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...Artzy" created 219 TIME covers over the past 24 years. Though he will perhaps be best remembered for his anthropomorphic machines, he was a first-rate portraitist, with a sharp, spare style and, above all, a knowing wit. His last cover portrait-of North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh-appeared on last week's issue, and was on newsstands around the world when he died. His first TIME covers were done in June of 1941, and were soon followed by a memorable series of wartime portraits, including the classic view of Germany's Admiral Karl Doenitz...
Still pursuing a freewheeling life, Herridge is apt to turn up at parties with two or three dates; in his office he keeps photographs-even an oil portrait-of assorted musky ladies of close acquaintance. He talks with espresso-shop idealism about TV, but he matches much of that talked idealism in his work. With far more non commercial daring than a David Susskind, he brings audiences a lot of the variety and vigor that TV once promised. Something less than television's first saint, he at least, in the words of one of his directors, "compulsively avoids...
...Chronicles of Stephen Foster's Family (University of Pittsburgh Press; 2 vols., $5), Stephen's niece, Evelyn Foster Morneweck, presents a corrected portrait-of a musician who loved his wife & child, paid his taxes, and wrote a temperance song called Comrades, Fill No Glass...
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