Word: attwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover journalism. To Svetlana's memoirs, Thomas can add such glittering editorial credits as Maxwell Taylor's The Uncertain Trumpet, Matthew Ridgway's Soldier, John Gardner's Excellence, Chester Bowles's Ambassador's Report, Merriman Smith's Thank You, Mr. President, William Attwood's The Reds and The Blacks, Theodore Sorensen's Kennedy and William Manchester's The Death of a President. Only as a sideline does Thomas edit a few novelists, including John Cheever. As he sees it, "there's something romantic about people dedicated to public service...
...threatening a costly lawsuit over the "painful" passages, Jackie forced Look either to delete or drastically tone down every last one of them. The magazine went out of its way to emphasize that the changes involved only 1,600 words out of 60,000, and Editor in Chief William Attwood of Cowles Communications, the magazine's publisher, told New York Post Columnist Murray Kempton: "We gave up some slush; a little gingerbread's off the top, but the structure's intact." The fact remained, however, that Look's editors had fought hard to preserve the gingerbread...
...after Jackie spelled out her objections, Goodwin and Editor Attwood met in Bobby Kennedy's 14th-floor apartment at United Nations Plaza to see what could be done. "What Jackie wanted," said one publishing executive, "was simply to chop the twelve points out. She wanted to use a meat ax. Instead, Goodwin agreed that a scalpel could be used...
Wielding scalpels-and occasionally surgical saws-Goodwin and Attwood carved away until sundown. They cut out most of a passage describing how Caroline Kennedy, then nearly six, learned of her father's death from her nanny. They condensed her reaction into two words: "She cried." There was considerable paraphrasing where Jackie's own words had been used. Direct quotes from two letters that Jackie had written to Jack-one while she was holidaying in Greece a month before his murder, the other written after his death and placed in his casket-were reworded and trimmed drastically. Cuts were...
...Attwood and Goodwin continued to perform minor incisions and excisions for the next three days. At midweek, they met in Rifkind's Madison Avenue offices to thrash out a final understanding. For 71 hours, eleven participants painstakingly examined every word of a four-page draft agreement. What held things up, as one of them acidly put it, was the fact that Bobby Kennedy was off skiing in Idaho, where he narrowly escaped injury in a bad fall, and had to be consulted by telephone on every point at his "Sun Valley command post...