Word: abe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single story suggests to Rosenthal that a lot of Times reporters must have been sitting around the news room. It is Rosenthal's fervent conviction that the newsroom is the last place a reporter should be. News doesn't break there. In the seven months that Abe Rosenthal has been the Times's metropolitan editor, this conviction-and Timesmen's leg muscles-has gotten plenty of exercise...
...paper who felt that the boss had lost his mind. In 15 years Rosenthal proved to be one cf the paper's liveliest and most perceptive foreign correspondents, but he had little administrative experience. Says Catledge: "I was asked, 'Why plant a crack foreign correspondent like Abe in the newsroom?' My answer is: 'Why did they put Nashua out to stud when he was winning races...
...Times may not yet have fully earned its merit badge as a local paper, but Abe Rosenthal has at least got everybody working for one. "It's sometimes forgotten," he said last week, "that the New York Times is a paper for New Yorkers. This is a hell of a sophisticated city, and the paper should reflect it. I want to make the standards for local writing and reporting at least as high as anything else in the paper. And maybe higher...
...months before curtain time, when Sammy was "in trouble" on the road, Abe Burrows was called in to direct. The Burrows touch has undoubtedly whipped up the pace and flipped up the quips, but the old play doctor was called in too late...
Lapses like that were few enough, but one item stopped him altogether. This secretary, according to the American lyrics, had a caboose that sported everything but the word Lionel. Castans cabled Abe Burrows for help. When he learned what Lionel is, he shrugged and left it out. That was a little bit too recondite for the French...