ANOTHER artist this week joins the small group (about 80 men over the past 38 years) who have painted a TIME cover. This is Joe Jones's first magazine cover, but his is a name well known among gallerygoers. St. Louis-born, Jones hit the art world in the '30s as an angry proletarian painter with an oft-quoted ambition: "I want to paint things that knock holes in walls." But even then he was also painting Midwestern wheatland themes, and he soon changed his politics, his subject matter and his style of painting. Then came the Joe Jones of the more familiar style--the linear clarity that has something of a Japanese feeling to it. Jones, a highly articulate fellow, says that he is "really interested in creating space, not objects."

TIME asked Jones to paint his own impression of faraway places for this week's Modern Living story on travel, and Jones responded by painting places he has never seen (his own faraway travel has been limited to Alaska as a World War II War Department artist, Labrador on a FORTUNE iron-ore assignment, and Bermuda for pleasure). Jones riffled through scads of travel photographs and "picked places that said to me, 'Go, go, I want to go there.' " For the curious, Jones's melange includes a girl from Tahiti, some cliffs near Beirut, a Greek island, and the harbor at Portofino.

OEVERAL weeks ago, in describing how we put together our cover story on the Cuba disaster, we had to soft-pedal mention of our Havana correspondent, Jay Mallin, who at the time was a "guest" in the Swiss embassy (most European nations do not recognize the right of asylum). Mallin got out last week, and the story of how he escaped arrest and made it to the embassy is told in the Hemisphere section. When he thought it safe to leave the embassy for the airport, escorted by a Swiss official, he became for 3 1/2 hours a member of the nerve-racked crowd, sitting amidst their belongings in a hot, airless waiting room, wondering whether they could get aboard the plane, whether they would first be stopped by an official, perhaps even led off to jail. The G-2 official who questioned Mallin, unaware that Mallin was on a wanted list at headquarters, was unexpectedly polite and incurious, and ended the interview by saying, "Hope to see you again soon." At last Mallin and a fellow correspondent, NBC's Dick Valeriani, boarded the U.S. commercial plane. Valeriani said, "I don't believe it." Both correspondents had spent two years of tension, frustration and harassment in Cuba. When the plane was airborne, Valeriani turned again to Mallin: "I still don't believe it." The plane came down at Miami, and Valeriani said at last, unhooking his seat belt, "Now I believe it."

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