The cranial reconstruction on the Time cover is pretty bad. The area between the eyes (nasion notch if I remember back a few years) is different, but look at the chin! Look at the overall nasal breadth.
The Time cover has a forehead which slopes at a different angle than the cranium. The medial brow ridges are very different. Its hard to see in these illustrations, but the degree of round headedness also looks different and that is a major point.
The base of the jaw (gonia) appear wide on the cranium, but the Time illusration suggests much less of this, but the other reconstruction shows it well.
I would love to sit down with that skull for a few hours in a well-stocked bone lab! First thing I would check is the thickness of the frontal bone.
The cranial reconstruction on the Time cover is pretty bad.