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This was not the first time that TIME masthead names have appeared in a literary context. In William Saroyan's comedy Love's Old Sweet Song, a door-to-door magazine salesman recites our 1940 roster of editors and researchers as part of a TIME subscription sales pitch to his potential customers - whose response is somewhat less than enthusiastic. Novelist P.G. Wodehouse proved to be a masthead reader too. In the 1955 Christmas issue of Punch, he published a poetic catalogue of our editorial staffers, including then-Managing Editor Roy Alexander: "How very much I would enjoy...
State Representative Barney Frank, a speaker at the UFW rally on the State House steps last Tuesday and firm supporter of the original resolution, said yesterday that the new resolution was a defeat for the UFW. "It was a compromise," Frank said, "But in the current context, the new resolution still supports the UFW as opposed to the Teamsters...
...McLaren, who on Dec. 2, 1971, was appointed by President Nixon to a federal judgeship. Colson, however, insisted that as "a good staff guy," he had merely been playing the part of "a devil's advocate"-outlining the problems that the Judiciary Committee might raise "in their worst context...
...simple yes or no. The vagueness shown last week by H.R. Haldeman has been the motto of the month: "I am not sure whether I was or not. I may very well have been." Other witnesses felt that truth was illusory; facts could only be construed "in their context." The quibbling over nuances would do credit to Henry James-as when Ehrlichman vainly tried to distinguish between "literal" and "actual...
...introspective, analytical man who loves to spend free time golfing, managers will have greater autonomy. Says he: "I don't think top executives should allow themselves to be involved in the process of decision making for day-today operations. We have to think in a global context...