From the Publisher: Mar 13 1989

It was a Friday nine weeks ago, and another issue of TIME was headed toward the presses. Suddenly came the news that Emperor Hirohito of Japan had died. As the magazine's editorial staff tore up its story list to accommodate several pages of an obituary, makeup editor Charlotte Quiggle faced a different kind of revision. Her job is to develop a plan for the sequence of all the editorial and advertising pages each week so they make a smoothly readable magazine. TIME's advertising staff immediately told Japanese advertisers that they were free, if they wished, to cancel ads in that issue...

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