BORIS CHALIAPIN
The Apr. 7, 1952, cover of TIME

“Mrs. Roosevelt is now 67 years old. She had just concluded three exhausting months as a delegate to the United Nations session in Paris. She had flown through the Middle East with rubberneck stops at Beirut, Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv. She had prefaced her tour of India with a fast week of seeing slums and soldiery, of meeting voluble Moslem dignitaries and veiled Moslem women in the Pakistan cities of Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar…Although Mrs. Roosevelt was traveling as a private citizen, she was treated almost like a visiting head of state. She addressed the Indian Parliament, was feted by scores of officials from Nehru on down. Newspapers ran her every word as front-page news. ‘Please,’ she pleaded at one point, when she was questioned about American race problems, ‘do not read Uncle Tom’s Cabin and believe it represents the United States today.”

HENRY KOERNER
The Apr. 10, 1964, cover of TIME

“She is onstage for 111 of Funny Girl's 132 minutes…She had no desire to drop her own name—’because I wanted all the people I knew when I was younger to know it was me when I became a star.’ She hated her first name, though, and took an ‘a’ out of it to shape it up. Today she likes to tell interviewers: ‘I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure you spell my name wrong.’ Moving to Manhattan, she shared an apartment for a while, but then began lugging a portable cot around with her and mooching space where she could—in friends' apartments, public relations offices, studio lofts. She swept the floor at the Cherry Lane Theater and took acting lessons from Drama Coach Allan Miller and Eli Rill. She dyed her hair red, wore white makeup, and dressed in black tights, feathered boas and 1925 hats. Barbra has never striven to be inconspicuous.”

MARCO GROB FOR TIME
The April 12, 2010, cover of TIME

“‘I think the experience of using an iPad is going to be profound for many people,’ he says. ‘I really do. Genuinely profound." That rings a bell. ‘I've heard it said that this is the device for you,’ I reply. ‘The one that will change everything.’ ‘When people see how immersive the experience is,’ Jobs says, ‘how directly you engage with it ... the only word is magical.’...It is possible that the public will not fall on the iPad, as I did, like lions on an antelope. Perhaps they will find the apps and the iBooks too expensive. Maybe they will wait for more fully featured later models. But for me, my iPad is like a gun lobbyist's rifle: the only way you will take it from me is to prise it from my cold, dead hands.”