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SENIOR EDITORS: Lee Aitken, Charles P. Alexander, Howard Chua-Eoan, James Collins, Marta Fitzgerald Dorion (Operations), Nancy Gibbs, Bruce Handy, Johanna McGeary, Priscilla Painton, Barrett Seaman (Special Projects...
Week 1 on any job can be nerve-racking -- all of those new faces, new procedures and new coffee machines. At TIME, with the added pressures of a weekly newsmagazine, it can be positively manic. So Lee Aitken, our newest senior editor, was already busy enough last Thursday evening when, four days into her first week -- and less than 48 hours from deadline -- she was asked to oversee our late-breaking cover story on Susan Smith, the young South Carolina mother accused of murdering her children. It was an assignment whose challenge amounted almost to hazing, but Aitken brought...
...before finding his calling as an agent. In 1980 he signed up author I.F. Stone after singing Homeric verse to him on the phone -- in Greek, of course. (Wylie later handled Stone's unlikely 1988 best seller, The Trial of Socrates.) Three years ago, Wylie persuaded British agents Gillon Aitken and Brian Stone to form a partnership. Wylie has brought Susan Sontag and other distinguished authors to the firm, yet many of the big names on his list are either one-shot autobiographers or recruits from his London partners...
...Britpop is lighthearted and featherweight. The producers Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman run a kind of pop-star atelier in South London, where "we have pretty much a hard and fast rule that no one we work with is over 25. There are too many aging rockers hanging on to the charts." Actually, it was SA&W that had a stranglehold on the English charts for most of 1987. The production team sold 35 million singles and 12 million albums, and they like to say "We are the charts." "They're very contemporary in what they do," says...
Before Mrs. Aitken's death--and before the 1985 retrial of von Bulow that ended in his acquittal--she disinherited Miss von Bulow because her granddaughter stood by her father during his four-year ordeal...