The Best TIME Covers

On TIME's 85th anniversary, check out the most lasting images ever to appear inside the red border and vote for the best cover in TIME history.

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Walter Chrysler
Man of the Year
January 7, 1929

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In autumn came the news that Walter P. Chrysler was going to build the world's tallest skyscraper, a 68-story colossus towering more than 800 feet above Lexington Ave. and 42nd St., Manhattan. Almost incidentally, he brought out a new line of commercial cars—the Fargo "Packets" and "Clippers." The doings of Walter P. Chrysler, already prodigious, now became fabulous....Read the full story

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