This year TIME is celebrating the achievements and careers of two of its most durable and valued employees, Makeup Chief Charles P. Jackson and Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin. If their years of service are added together, Jackson and Drapkin have been around 19 years longer than the magazine itself, which turned 62 last March. Their rise from office boys to positions of honor and responsibility adds a gratifying chapter to Horatio Alger lore.
Hired in 1939, after graduating from Columbia University, Jackson, 69, has completed his 46th year at TIME, counting half a decade spent in the field artillery during World...
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