Word: tasker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grew, so did the school. Last week Bucknell held its summer commencement with full academic pomp. One hundred sixty-six of its 2,400 students received their diplomas, took a farewell glimpse at the spacious 300-acre campus overlooking the Susquehanna Valley. Among alumni who had preceded them: General Tasker Bliss, ex-'73, U.S. Army Chief of Staff in World War I, and Baseball Immortal Christy Mathewson, ex-'02, who was a football hero at Bucknell...
...person on almost every one of its 1,360 covers. Some exceptions: Cartographer Bob Chapin's maps of Paris (Sept. 4, 1944) and Jerusalem (Aug. 26, 1946), Japan's setting sun (Aug. 20, 1945). TIME covers are a special 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...
From then until the story went to press three days later, he was busy revising and rewriting. The story was completely typed eight different times. Everybody from Managing Editor T. S. Matthews, Executive Editor Roy Alexander and Assistant Managing Editor Dana Tasker read it and made comments. Not until six hours before press time was Editor-Writer Purtell entirely satisfied with the review...
...editors date these portrait covers from the one of the late, great Ignace Jan Paderewski on TIME'S Feb. 27, 1939, issue. That assignment was given to Artist Ernest Hamlin Baker by Editor Tasker in an attempt to get a more significant kind of cover for TIME. Hitherto we had used a few conventional paintings, some color photographs and an occasional black & white or two-color sketch, but the old reliable black & white photograph was our standby...
...more than a year, Baker sweated out the bulk of these new covers. Then, Artzybasheff and Boris Chaliapin came along to contribute their respective talents. Tasker was, and is, liaison man, interpreting his and the editors' ideas to the artists and vice versa. With Baker's third cover (April 24, 1939) a symbolic swastika was inserted in the background of the Heinrich Himmler portrait. From that time on interpretive symbolism has been an increasingly significant part of the cover-to help identify portraits not immediately familiar to everybody, and to highlight the cover subjects' current news value...