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...Artzy" created 219 TIME covers over the past 24 years. Though he will perhaps be best remembered for his anthropomorphic machines, he was a first-rate portraitist, with a sharp, spare style and, above all, a knowing wit. His last cover portrait-of North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh-appeared on last week's issue, and was on newsstands around the world when he died. His first TIME covers were done in June of 1941, and were soon followed by a memorable series of wartime portraits, including the classic view of Germany's Admiral Karl Doenitz...
...Otherwise, Bernstein consulted only the rules defining "clarity, precision and logical presentation"-plus the generally reliable canons of his own taste. This makes for a journey past the shoals and promontories of English usage that is more casual than comprehensive, but frequently edifying and unfailingly illuminated by the Bernstein wit...
...Your story did not contain even a scintilla on North Carolina's historic and famed Outer Banks, to wit, Cape Hatteras, Kitty Hawk (Wright Brothers), Roanoke Island (site of the first English colonization), and Ocracoke (last of the Eastern frontiers). This enchanting area is not reserved for the affluent society, but is a haven for all who appreciate adventure and solitude...
Anouilh, like Shaw, tends to become a prisoner of his own brilliance; audiences leave some of his conversation-plays so impressed by the wit that they are oblivious to the thought content...
...former student of Phyllis McGinley's at a Westchester County high school, I want to thank you for an inspiring article. For years I have read her poems for children to my daughter and followed through to Times Three and Sixpence in Her Shoe, marveling at her insight, wit and sensitiveness. May good fortune follow her always. That issue of TIME will remain in my files ad infinitum...