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...almost six years this column has been the territory of Ralph Davidson. This week I am taking it over in order to report two important new executive assignments, including Davidson's. He is leaving the publisher's chair to join the office of President James R. Shepley. His assignment, as Shepley wrote in a memo to the staff, will be "to share the duties of my office and familiarize himself with all of Time Inc.'s major lines of business...
...problems of acclimatization are expected: Davidson thrives on change, as his personal history at Time Inc. makes clear. A native New Mexican who went west to study international relations at Stanford and then traveled abroad extensively as a Marshall Plan worker, he joined TIME in 1954 and held a number of executive positions in Europe with the magazine's international editions. He moved to New York in 1967 as managing director of Time International, became an associate publisher of the entire magazine, and was named publisher in 1972. During his stewardship TIME has enjoyed a period of revenue growth...
...delighted to announce that Davidson's successor is John A. Meyers, who for the past six years has been publisher of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. A native of Illinois with a B.A. from. Michigan State's School of Journalism, Meyers served with distinction as a U.S. Marine in the Korean War. His 23-year career with Time Inc. has included posts as TIME'S associate publisher and advertising sales director, as well as the one he will continue to hold as a vice president of the company. A man of modesty and personal warmth who hastens to introduce himself...
...EVER I SEE YOU AGAIN Directed by Joe Brooks Screenplay by Joe Brooks and Martin Davidson...
...request" disco filled with pretty sedate people--slumped and smoking and going to the bathroom--except for a bunch of minor league ball players propped up behind the revolving merry-go-round bar playing "flick the cockroach." A big Thurman Munson clone walked up to me wearing a Harley-Davidson t-shirt and yelled in my ear that I wasn't drinking enough. A "Mother Harley" tattoo embellished his hefty forearm, set flatly in front...