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...Editor R. M. Barrington-Ward left on a voyage last winter, Deputy Editor Casey moved into the magnificently shabby Editors Room at Printing House Square. When Barrington-Ward died in Tanganyika, nobody expected Casey to succeed him. Fleet Street rumors pointed to the Economist's brilliant Editor Geoffrey Crowther or the Times's Senior Assistant Editor Donald Tyerman (whom Tories consider too far left); Colonel the Hon. John Jacob Astor, who owns a controlling interest in the Times, couldn't get Crowther so didn't try, and needed Tyerman where he was. He decided to leave...
After two months and 10,000 miles of travel in the U.S., chubby Geoffrey Crowther, editor of London's famed Economist (TIME, Feb. 2), found the U.S. state of mind very different from 1929, when he had made his first visit. Then, wrote Crowther in This Week magazine, "everybody you met . . . was sure that American business had discovered the secret of eternal prosperity. Now the mood is very different. Business is very good, certainly, but in every smoking room you are told the reasons why it can't stay that...
...write. "But the leaders that get talked about," he says ruefully, "are the ones I write at deadline." Bombed out during the war, his Economist now lives in handsomely remodeled, fluorescent-lighted quarters off St. James's. The apartment building is 70 years old and has, says Crowther, a dubious past: "I find that the older generation of taxi drivers know the address [22 Ryder Street] very well." It now houses a brilliant crew, and a tradition of passionate anonymity: only a departing editor's valedictory may bear a byline. Although it has a reputation for omniscience...
Byproducts. The Economist has a much larger staff (about 25) than its circulation alone could afford. To support it, Crowther has built up an "intelligence unit" of economists to do research jobs at handsome fees for British industries. The combined staffs produce much more than the Economist has room to print; some of the overflow goes into a confidential foreign newsletter ($84 a year...
...have been bitterly attacked by my friends on the left for veering sharply to the right," says Crowther. "Of course, I say it isn't true. My heart, like all the best of hearts, is slightly on the left...