Word: copyboy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year was 1943 when Eugene Coyle, a 15-year-old Irish kid from the Bronx, joined TIME as a part-time copyboy. He liked the job, and he stayed. And stayed. Over the next 50 years, Gene became a smiling, unflappable presence in these corridors. His career as an art director and a production director spanned the revolution from lead type to the computer age, and his work has helped define the look and feel of the magazine. Most recently, as chief of makeup for TIME's international editions, Gene has supervised the production of as many as a dozen...
...hours on weekends to help remake the magazine. "He's been around so long and in so many different incarnations that Gene always knew how to get things done," says Karsten Prager, the managing editor of TIME International. "He's like a rock." We're glad our former copyboy decided to stay and stay...
Church got his start in journalism as a copyboy for the New York Times in 1953 and served for 14 years at the Wall Street Journal before coming to TIME in 1969. Since then he has written four Man of the Year cover stories and 91 other covers on subjects ranging from Henry Ford to gun control and from the future of capitalism to Pete Rose's gambling problems. In September, George moved to the World section, where he writes on such subjects as the gulf crisis and this week's sudden turn of events on the Soviet political scene...