Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 23, 1943
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TIME'S original cover portrait of General "Tooey" Spaatz of North African fame hangs on the wall of his wife's home in Washington.
"I have never seen a picture of him half as good," she wrote Artist Ernest Hamlin Baker. "It is truly startlingly lifelike. I have no idea of what your method is—though obviously you must work from photograph—but the result is wonderfully real."
Originals of TIME covers by Baker have gone (among many others) to General Doolittle, Secretary Knox, Manpower Czar...
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