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...knowledgeable in the visual arts, I have found most of your covers lacking in originality and style. In fact, I felt they did not reflect the quality of the printed matter within the covers. But the cover from the brilliant woodcut of the Japanese Premier by Kujoshi Saito is tops in every way. It is eye-appealing, it makes a statement...
This week's cover is a woodcut-TIME'S first in that medium. For Japanese Printmaker Kiyoshi Saito, however, it is not his first appearance in the magazine. His work should be familiar to many TIME readers; as long ago as 1951, we introduced the then-unknown Saito in the Art section and reproduced in color his now-famous woodcut...
...still startled by the reaction to that story: "Suddenly my gallery was swamped with orders for Cat from around the world. In no time at all, the print disappeared from Japan." Saito limited the edition to 35 prints, and the work became a collector's item. One print was recently quoted by a Manhattan dealer at $1,500. Saito's original price...
...Saito was an almost inevitable choice, but he approached the task with some apprehension. "After all," he said, "up to then I had never done the likeness of a face except of Buddhist images and prehistoric haniwa figurines." In and one furious prehistoric sitting, the artist squatted on the floor and filled a large sketchbook with his drawings. Back at his studio, he transferred a composite of his sketches to five blocks- one for each color -of a soft Japanese wood called sen, from which the cover portrait was made...
...world turned brown," cried Coffee Farmer Soguro Saito, who lost 5,000 of his 9,000 trees to the wind. Worried Coffeegrower Raimundo Pereira complained bitterly: "The cold wind that ruined my trees has no pity." Thousands of ruined farmers will have to wait two years to harvest another coffee crop, but, in Brazil's one-crop economy, the wind also meant hardship for countless others. Dozens of coffee-roasting plants and wholesale buyers will have nothing to work with; truckers will have nothing to haul; laborers on the large plantations will be laid...