Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war Cecil Lambert bigamously married a WAAF named Terry, had her portrait in full uniform tattooed on his forearm. At war's end a court sent him to jail to atone for the bigamy. Last week the first Mrs. Lambert marched her errant and reunited husband down to Tattooist Charlie Bell to remove the last evidence of his past. In Charlie's shop, Cecil sat patiently while Charlie and his wife discussed the problem of erasing the WAAF...
...responsibility of Assistant Managing Editor Dana Tasker. He presides at weekly cover conferences at which editors pick cover subjects, sometimes weeks, sometimes months in advance. Then he and one of the three cover artists-Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff and Boris Chaliapin-decide on the symbolism to accompany the portrait (e.g., for Petrillo, a foot stepping on a pile of phonograph records). Most TIME cover stories are written and edited by the regular staffs of the section in which they appear. Certain cover stories, that present special difficulties or call for a special literary skill, are written by Senior Editor...
Erasure of the portrait of America as a non-militaristic nation is too high a price to pay for a poorly prepared reserve. It is an especially prohibitive price at this time, when the nation still has a skilled force of 10,000,000 men trained in the last...
...portrait of his friend Orozco sitting in an electrical storm...
...half-dollar, first struck since 1916, bears the portrait...