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WITH this week's portrait of Columnist Sylvia Porter, Vienna-born Artist Henry Koerner, 45, chalks up cover portrait No. 15-a gallery of paintings that have caused some TIME readers to applaud us for printing great art, others to hoot in dismay. One woman was so appalled by the appearance of New York Times Washington Correspondent James Reston (Feb. 15) that she wrote in asking about the state of his health: "The boiled right eye with its drooping lid, the bulbous nose-everything he eats or drinks must disagree with...
...Sylvia Porter sat for him for 15 hours over a period of five days in her Manhattan apartment. For the background. Koerner climbed to the top of the New York Post building "so I could see Wall Street and make blobs. The wind was fantastic and I said to myself, 'Why am I so insane?' But I wanted the blackness of the canyon, with a background of evenly lit windows. You invent...
...subject's reaction to a Koerner portrait, Sylvia Porter's might be taken as typical. "I think it's a great portrait," says she. "I don't think it's flattering. But I think it's a great portrait...
Momentum. With Sylvia Porter, "your dollar" comes first. Every column she has written is carefully scrapbooked. Rising about 8:30 in the morning, Sylvia speeds husband and daughter goodbye with a kiss-kiss; by 8:50, sipping coffee in her bedroom and nervously smoking, she is deep in the business section of the Times and all of the Wall Street Journal. ("Here I don't read; I study.") In 20 taut minutes, a mind that can sponge whole columns at a glance has trapped all that Sylvia needs...
...often as lunch is lunch, it is a business interview: "It's hello and right down to it." By 2:30, Sylvia is in her cubbyhole office at the Post (next to that of Gossipist Leonard Lyons). Her back to the filing cabinets full of background material (which she never uses), she whacks away against a 5:30 deadline. Deadline is sometimes missed in the agony of indecision. Last week Sylvia was working ahead in preparation for a planned vacation with Sumner. But even vacations are no particular rest. On a brief winter idyl in the Bahamas, sunning herself...