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Vintage Sunday Times Magazine May 30th 1982
Cover: Who were the greatest? We celebrate our 1001st issue
‘Issue 1001 of the Sunday Times Magazine is an important landmark for this newspaper. We celebrate it here by reprinting 70 of our most outstanding covers. Seen together they are an aide memoire to the great stories and shifting preoccupations of two extraordinary decades; they are also a rich and difficult craft. For under it’s Art Director Michael Rand The Sunday Times Magazine has deployed a remarkable variety of techniques of cover-making. What makes a great cover? The answers are legion: it maybe a great photograph, like Donald McCullin’s bandaged Vietnam casualty or Snowden’s moving study of mental illness, or it maybe Sir Francis Chichester’s very amateur self-portrait; it may be grotesque models of the famous by Fluck and Law or a pastiche Leonardo fat man by Peter Brookes. Or it may simply be a good idea-like the Duke of Bedford’s stocking masked face to dramatise The Great Train Robbery. Great covers for weighty stories. But importance is not all; no cover provoked more response than a winsome dog on an issue about animals, none was more studied than the sandy bottom of a model on a travel issue. So much for our first thousand; now onto the next.
The Greatest: Today, with 20 years and a thousand issues of the Magazine behind us, we turn our attention to the outstanding figures of the period we have been reporting. In and A-Z directory of activities and professions we present a cavalcade of “The Greatest” –the men and woman who have been signally dominant or influential in their particular field. Together they account for a good deal of what has been enjoyable, beneficial and illuminating and much of what has been worrying, destructive and downright evil in our times. The nominations are those of the special journalists of The Sunday Times: they are initialled by the contributors whose names are listed on page 46. Some of their choices are indisputable; many others will afford you the great pleasure of debate or even aggravation.
Page 63 Look: Over the page in this 1001st issue we look at the astonishing transformation that has taken place in the family home over two decades. Plus a nostalgic look at fashion
Page 78 A Life in the day of Pamela Stevenson who talks to Alison Coles, photo by Red Saunders
80 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. This issue is in good condition for age
