Word: birnbaums
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Along with Marsh Clark's coverage of King, the week's cover story reflects extensive reporting from all our U.S. bureaus on the changing mood and status of the Negro in America. The story was written by Jesse Birnbaum, who wrote our earlier cover story on James Baldwin and many of our reports on the Negro situation in recent months. It was edited by Marsh Clark's older brother, Champ Clark, who wrote our first Martin Luther King cover story back during the Montgomery troubles...
TAKING stock of a troubled chapter of current history, this week's cover story, written by Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum, examines the state of Alabama and its Governor, George C. Wallace. For the background of his cover painting, Artist Boris Chaliapin chose the broken window of Birmingham's bombed-out 16th Street Baptist Church as a particularly striking symbol of the depth and bitterness of the struggle...
...these correspondents-and many others-sent their reports to New York, where Writer Jesse Birnbaum and Editor Champ Clark turned them into this week's cover story. Opening the season, it is a unique and in many ways an exclusive first chapter in a story that TIME intends to cover with all the intensity at its command until Election...
...York, Writer Birnbaum has been reading up on the city, and refreshing his own recollections of it. A New Yorker himself, he once worked in our Chicago bureau for a year and a half, hated the city at first, but came to share its exuberance, admire its "spirit of cultural innovation," and find refreshing its "happy cynicism about crime." He was helped in his reading and researching by Joanne Funger. who made her first "casual visit" to Chicago in 1950 and has averaged about eight visits a year there since...
From all the mountainous massing of material, it was Birnbaum's job to sort out and compress, to find anecdotes or facts that in a brief compass would suggest the complexity of the city and the character of his subject. And so, when this week he wrote his 22nd cover story, the story for the first time became a fully shaped article. He was not merely changing, reordering or touching up someone else's version. And as Researcher Funger double-checked his facts and figures before publication, Chicago Bureau Chief Gart was in New York helping with...