Time magazine covers (Elizabeth Parang) Marcia Tuttle 17 Feb 1999 01:59 UTC
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:27:00 -0800 From: "Parang, Elizabeth" <eparang@PEPPERDINE.EDU> Subject: Time magazine covers Back in 1993 there was a message (appended) to serialst concerning the theft and resale of Time magazine covers featuring "celebrities." We are preparing to discard some volumes of Time from 1970 to 1985 and were curious to learn if there was a legitimate market for "celebrity" covers. Does anyone have any information on this topic? Elizabeth Parang Coordinator of Periodicals Pepperdine University ______________________________________________- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 11:13:00 -0800 Sender: Library Administration and Management <LIBADMIN@UMAB.BITNET> From: Nancy_Beale%UCSDLIBRARY.UCSD.EDU@SDSC.BITNET Subject: SECURITY ALERT Security Alert >From the "I thought I had heard it all before" files. Last week, Access Services staff apprehended a suspect, for the attempted theft of 34 Time magazine covers from the University Library, University of California, San Diego campus. Staff were alerted when the suspect set off the 3M gate alarm as he attempted to leave the library. The suspect: Carl Alexander, 31, was later arrested for burglary and transferred to the San Diego jail. While waiting for the police to arrive, the suspect admitted that he had cut the covers out of the magazines. He later claimed that this work was "what he did for a living". A folder he was carrying contained a letter he allegedly had received from his "employer" ordering the specific magazine covers and mentioning an enclosed $500 for previous "services". The suspect later admitted to police that his employer sends him to specific university and public libraries, where he finds magazine covers containing celebrity photos. Once in the hands of his employer, the covers are sent to the celebrity appearing on the cover, along with a letter requesting an autograph. The autographed cover is then mounted and sold as a collector's item. The suspect later indicated that his "employer" was from the Washington state area, but this has not been verified. It seems likely that this person has others working for him in other cities. If you have information about similar incidents or questions about this one, please give me a call at 619-534-1271. Thank you. Nancy Beale Access Services, Asst. Dept Head University Library Univ of California, San Diego La Jolla, California bealen@ucsd.edu