Word: timing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: The fatality of TIME'S cover is not exclusively reserved for sports figures (Letters, Nov. 27). The following men have been jinxed immediately, or soon after, their appearance as Men of the Week (I include only those I remember offhand - there are undoubtedly many more) : Ethiopia's Selassie [Jan. 6, 1936] - his country accompanied him into oblivion...
Austria's last (and perhaps, late) chancelor [March 21, 1938] - he was well down the kids when TIME brought...
Albania's Zog - If he wasn't on TIME'S cover, he surely missed a good...
Sweden's Gustaf [Oct. 30, 1939]-His budget is out of balance for the first time in years...
Chrysler's Keller [Oct. 16, 1939]- No sooner had he smiled for TIME'S cameraman than his company ran into a disastrous strike...