It doesn\u2019t seem to mean as much as it once did, but it used to be that having your face on the cover of Time magazine was truly a sign of celebrity, notoriety, or significance.<\/p>\n
*Time started publishing in 1923, and on October 13 of the following year readers and newsstand browsers may have been startled to find the diamond-drill eyes of Glenn Curtiss (\u201chandy at fixing things\u201d) boring into their souls. Glenn\u2019s photo spotlighted an article (\u201cAt Dayton\u201d) about a recent international air meet which he had NOT attended, but where \u201chis name was on every man\u2019s lips\u2026. At least every other plane of those assembled bore a Curtiss motor. Not one plane but bore some evidence to the contributions he has made to mankind\u2019s knowledge of the air and his agility in it.\u201d<\/p>\n
*Curtiss\u2019s portrait was photographic, befitting a former Eastman employee who had sidelined as a professional photographer in his teens. But the April 5, 1926 cover featured a sketch of Corning\u2019s Alanson B. Houghton, grandfather of \u201cAmo\u201d Houghton. Alanson of course had been president of the Glass Works and had represented the district in Congress, but the article (\u201cNought on Stumbles\u201d) was more interested in his bleak take on European affairs \u2013 he was our ambassador to Great Britain, following three years as ambassador to Germany (our first since the declaration of war in 1917).<\/p>\n
*A color painting of Navy Air Chief Towers (\u201cnot ships or planes, but planes plus ships\u201d) adorned the cover of Time on June 23, 1941. Admiral John H. \u201cJack\u201d Towers was not from Steuben County, but came here in 1911 to learn to fly and to test the navy\u2019s first aircraft (a seaplane) on Keuka Lake. He was a pallbearer at Glenn\u2019s funeral, and a warm supporter of Curtiss for the rest of his life. The article (\u201cSailors Aloft\u201d) concerned debates over the independence and composition of the military air services. Ernest Hamlin Baker painted the cover.<\/p>\n
*Corning\u2019s Robert E. Woods, First Captain of Cadets at West Point (\u201cduty, honor, country\u201d) got a Hamlin painting on June 11, 1945. Besides his graduation and commissioning as the war drew toward its end, an article \u201cThe Long Gray Line\u201d noted Woods as the only man to have played for both teams in the army-navy football game\u2026 first as an Annapolis midshipman, and later as a cadet at West Point. Woods\u2019 class would be the last to graduate during the war, which ended on September 2.<\/p>\n
*The October 10, 1994 cover (\u201cBlack Renaissance: African-American Artists Are Truly Free at Last\u201d) returned to photography, this time in color and this time featuring the far more cheerful countenance of Wayland\u2019s Bill T. Jones, representing the article \u201cThe Beauty of Black Art.\u201d Noting that he was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1985, Time reflected that \u201ctoday he works with the intensity of someone who knows his time is running out.\u201d Twenty-five years after publication, we\u2019re glad to report that Bill T. Jones is still going strong.<\/p>\n
*It\u2019s interesting to look at who did NOT make the cover of time. Neither Amo Houghton nor his father appeared, despite their long careers in industry, business, and public service. IBM president Thomas J. Watson Sr. never made it, though Tom Junior did.<\/p>\n
*None of the \u201cbig three\u201d birth control crusaders \u2013 Margaret Higgins Sanger, Edith Higgins Byrne, and Katherine Houghton Hepburn (all contemporaries from Corning) were on the cover. Nor were the Corning researchers who made dramatic breakthroughs in fiber optics. Neither was author and film critic Charles Champlin of Hammondsport. His contributions were INSIDE the magazine, over the course of 17 years as a correspondent for Time and Life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It doesn\u2019t seem to mean as much as it once did, but it used to be that having your face on the cover of Time magazine was truly a sign of celebrity, notoriety, or significance. *Time started publishing in 1923, and on October 13 of the following year readers and newsstand browsers may have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[860,858,441,37,859,861,13,857],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-admiral-john-towers","tag-alanson-b-houghton","tag-bill-t-jones","tag-glenn-curtiss","tag-jack-towers","tag-robert-e-woods","tag-steuben-county","tag-time-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gatehousemedia.com\/windowonwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gatehousemedia.com\/windowonwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gatehousemedia.com\/windowonwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gatehousemedia.com\/windowonwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gatehousemedia.com\/windowonwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gatehousemedia.com\/windowonwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gatehousemedia.com\/windowonwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gatehousemedia.com\/windowonwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gatehousemedia.com\/windowonwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}