Helping us pick the Man of the Year for our first January cover has become quite a tradition with subscribersso you might be interested to learn that the whole thing began because the first week of 1928 was so dull.
No one had done anything newsworthy enough to put his picture on TIME's cover, so somebody suggested we stop looking for a Man of the Week and pick a Man of the Year. This was an easy choice: Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who had soloed the Atlantic in only 33 hours and 39 minutes, was...
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