A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 4, 1943

Picking the Man of the Year for TIME's first January cover has become such a tradition with TIME's readers that you might be amused to learn that the whole thing began because the first week of January 1928 was so dull.

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Picking the Man of the Year for TIME's first January cover has become such a tradition with TIME's readers that you might be amused to learn that the whole thing began because the first week of January 1928 was so dull.

No one had done anything newsworthy enough to put his picture on TIME's cover, so somebody suggested that we stop looking for a Man of the Week and pick a...

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