Word: contributors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invited to take a staff position. Reluctant to report to any office on a fixed schedule, he nevertheless showed up for an interview. There he met Katharine Angell, the fiction editor. He remembered later that "she had a lot of black hair and the knack of making a young contributor feel at ease." He did not know at that moment that the course of his professional and personal lives had been set for good...
...Katharine fell in love and married, after her divorce, in 1929. They lived happily ever after until her death in 1977. He also joined The New Yorker and, along with Founding Editor Ross and Contributor James Thurber, gave the magazine its voice and character. White could do, and did, everything Ross wanted. He took over "Notes and Comment," the opening section of each week's "Talk of the Town." These paragraphs did not take political sides but mused, sometimes acerbically, on the passing scene. Using the editorial "we," White once described how this process worked: "We write as we please...
...Love Philadelphia" commercial as part of the city's civic-pride campaign. She can well afford to be supportive. After toiling for years in the shadow of Soul Sisters Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross and Tina Turner, the singer is finally coming into her own. LaBelle was a major contributor to the 1984 Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack, and her performance at the Live Aid benefit was one of the show's high points. In addition, she has a new album, Patti, out, just finished another, taped an HBO special for next year and did an hour-long variety-show pilot...
...cover story was written by Contributor John Skow, a veteran show business and celebrity chronicler whose daughter Lizie, 18, herself a fledgling pop singer, helped him with his American Scene piece last February on the Grateful Dead. Says Skow, 53: "I am now one of the world's oldest Dead Heads." His TIME cover subjects include Model Cheryl Tiegs, Singer Linda Ronstadt and Actresses Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep. Skow dined with Madonna and her band at Chez Helene in New Orleans and discovered "that we both liked Judy Holliday and soft-shell crabs...
...wish to make our feelings clear as a dissenting voice to the hostile and critical attitude we have seen in house meeting and in print. We feel that a major contributor to these attitudes is a remarkable lack of accurate information which in effect amounts to misinformation. It the widespread opinions based on inaccurate information were the only ones to be heard, it would be easy to assume of negative student opinion. We deny any such consensus. Chandler Bryan '85-'86 Thomas Lockerby...