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Abstract

Based on Francesco Botticini's fifteenth-century painting of the Christian martyr Saint Sebastian, the April 1968 cover depicted a persecuted Muhammad Ali, who had been stripped of his heavyweight title after refusing to serve in the Vietnam War. A Conversation[sup]1 with Stephen Colbert His photo shoot took more than nine hours and involved twenty people, some women's makeup, and one container of Jiffy Pop. 3 The patron saint of archers, athletes, and soldiers -- and the person to pray to if you're scared of getting the plague.

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Title
This Way In
First page
22
Section
The Making of the cover
Publication year
2008
Publication date
Aug 2008
Publisher
Hearst Magazine Media, Inc
ISSN
01949535
Source type
Magazine
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
210369046
Copyright
2008 by Hearst Communications Inc