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TIME Person of the Year 2018: From BTS to Michelle Obama, who will be on this year's cover?
Evening Standard ^ | 12/10/2018 | Georgia Chambers

Posted on 12/10/2018 6:35:01 AM PST by sodpoodle

Every year, TIME Magazine announces who it will name person of the year, the individual who done the most to influence global events "for better or for worse."

But the TIME person of the year accolade actually started by accident.

The final week of 1927 had been a series of slow news days, and editors were struggling to find someone to lead their Person of the Week feature.

According to a letter to readers that appeared in the 1944 edition, “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 the hero of 1927.”

(Excerpt) Read more at standard.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Music/Entertainment; Society
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To: sodpoodle

LOL! Does anyone remember when it was sort of a big deal to be on the cover of ‘time’? Now, not so much. They called and I laughed into the phone and declined.


21 posted on 12/10/2018 6:57:34 AM PST by rktman ( #My2nd! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH)
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To: sodpoodle

Based on the last weeks news coverage, there is no doubt it must be George HW Bush


22 posted on 12/10/2018 6:59:31 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Part of the basic makeup of the universe.......The Fourth Dimension........


23 posted on 12/10/2018 7:00:26 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: a fool in paradise
I don't think they would choose someone who is dead, and GHWB didn't do anything newsworthy during the year other than to die.

Either Mueller or some potential 2020 candidate like Beto or Kamala, or maybe the #MeToo movement (if they haven't already had them).

24 posted on 12/10/2018 7:11:24 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: sodpoodle

It is going to be Alexandria Occasional Cortex. She’s the (bucktoothed, eye-bulging) face of the “new wave” of Dems that defeated Pubbies to take the House.


25 posted on 12/10/2018 7:12:06 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: sodpoodle

If they do the group thing again, give it to the firemen in California.


26 posted on 12/10/2018 7:12:17 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: sodpoodle

Ocasio-Cortez.

It would have been Beto if he had won.

Libs like Time are **desperate** to change the subject from Biden/Hillary/Pelosi/Bernie and the other geriatrics.


27 posted on 12/10/2018 7:15:16 AM PST by OrangeHoof (CNN - the most busted name in news.)
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To: Huskrrrr

Thailand cave rescuers would also be a good choice.


28 posted on 12/10/2018 7:15:27 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: mabarker1

You are correct in a literal sense, but TIME has done “Persons of the Year” several times. So they do feel free to do it in any way they please.... does not have to be one person.


29 posted on 12/10/2018 7:16:46 AM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: morphing libertarian

Sourczar or Asilly Millano.


30 posted on 12/10/2018 7:17:26 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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To: sodpoodle

Who would the Lady’s Home Journal choose.

Time is now owned by Meredith publishing and they make most of their money serving the Lady population.

Time will be certain to virtue signal their bias for Leftist, progressive policies, and show how a certain group has been “oppressed”.

So it’s very hard for a white male to get the nod.

The French Yellow Jackets is certainly one of the biggest stories — the taxpaying middle class under pressure, but the Yellow Jackets are not supporting the globalist narrative.

I’d guess:

The Honduran caravan
Women politicians
Women in business

Something like that.


31 posted on 12/10/2018 7:19:48 AM PST by poconopundit
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To: sodpoodle

Thailand cave rescuers would also be a good choice.

Excellent choice if they do a group. Michelle O—please NO.


32 posted on 12/10/2018 7:19:56 AM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: sodpoodle

NPC.


33 posted on 12/10/2018 7:21:07 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: sodpoodle

Yes.


34 posted on 12/10/2018 7:23:03 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: sodpoodle

Real President Hillary


35 posted on 12/10/2018 7:25:38 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Deaf Smith

I had to look up NPC - (being old is a burden)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/politics/npc-twitter-ban.html


36 posted on 12/10/2018 7:26:59 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: Ancesthntr

Rather certain that she defeated a Democrat in a Primary, thereby guaranteeing her the seat in Congress.


37 posted on 12/10/2018 7:28:44 AM PST by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: sodpoodle

Ocasio-Cortez the Socialist “The new face of America”.


38 posted on 12/10/2018 7:30:19 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: OrangeHoof

Ocasio-Cortez.

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You beat me to it. they’ll call her “The new face of America” or some such crap.


39 posted on 12/10/2018 7:31:43 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: bigbob

I don’t think she meets the qualification of being ‘human’.


40 posted on 12/10/2018 7:31:47 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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