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...Jim Kelly: Well, the classic definition of TIME's Person of the Year is the person who most affected the events of the year, for better or for worse. I think what has happened over the years is that the Man of the Year title, Person of the Year title, has become non-honorific. It was never meant to be solely that...
...Jim Kelly: Well, Hitler was picked in 1938, before it became so clear to the world - before all his crimes became known to the world. When Hitler made Man of the Year, the illustration was of him playing the Organ of Death with skeletons all over it. It was not meant to be an honor to Hitler. The reaction to it was surprisingly mute. But then again, I think it was because it was 1938. The selection of Khomeini was controversial. And a few hundred people did cancel their subscription...
...Jim Kelly: We haven't picked anyone yet. We picked President Bush last year. He was the Person of the Year last year. We haven't picked anyone yet. It comes out on Monday...
...Jim Kelly: Well, it is a democracy up until the final week, when the managing editor gets to decide. What I do is get nominations from all correspondents. I talk to all editors; I read the course of all the mail that comes in. We think about this from about Thanksgiving to now. But this year we started a little earlier. We started earlier this year because we knew it would contain something about Sept...
...Jim Kelly: Well, many women have been Person of the Year. Wallace Warfield-Simpson, who married the King of England; Queen Elizabeth has been Woman of the Year; Madame Chaing Kai-Shek and Cori Aquino...