TIME is probing and analyzing the issues of the day with even greater intensity now, with the addition of our new Essay section. Yet we have by no means abandoned the TIME-honored precept that much of the news is made by people or is best told through people.

This week's cover story about one of the world's most remarkable businessmen is a case in point. Reported largely by Los Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges, written by Spencer Davidson and edited by Edward L. Jamieson, it is a story of business and art and philanthropy--but, most of all, it is a searching examination of the life and works of Norton Simon, the corporate Cezanne.

Some stories about other people you won't want to miss:

The Man Who Fooled Everybody (THE NATION)--The incredible story of Anthony ("Tino") De Angelis, the onetime Bronx butcher who oiled the way to bankruptcy for 16 companies in the most prodigious swindle of modern times.

A Tale of Two Citadels (THE WORLD)--It's about the Outer Seven and the Inner Six, but it revolves around the maneuvering of a practical One--Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson--who is building bridges so that Seven and Six will add up to more.

Two Heads, One Mind (THE HEMISPHERE)--The two heads are those of Alfredo Ovando Candia and Rene Barrientos, and the one mind--running Bolivia--still appears to be that of Barrientos.

The Beautifier (MODERN LIVING)--Portrait of a Lady Bountiful: philanthropist. Oxonian, art collector, known to New Yorkers as the city's unofficial green thumb, now deeply involved in the White House conference on American beauty. She is Mary Lasker, the kind of woman who, when she sends flowers, may send 40,000 daffodils.

A Man Without (Music)--Introduces a perfectionist conductor with a twelve-tone name--Sergiu Celibidache--but without a country, an orchestra, or a recording contract to call his own.

The Year of the Rookie (SPORT)--Presents some bright new faces in baseball in a season that one club manager says will produce the greatest crop of rookies ever.

Of Ultimate Things (BOOKS)--A review of a collection of short stories that belong among the finest examples of American gothic. But it becomes the story of the late Flannery O'Connor, who had the luck, the stubbornness, and the mystical quality of the Irish.

We think you'll be fascinated to know these and many other people who are here with us this week.

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