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Many correspondents painted a benign picture of the financial wizard whose acumen, and sometimes shady practices, powered the 1980s takeover wars. While Milken earned more than $1 billion as the guru of the now defunct Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, friends argued that accumulating vast wealth was never his main goal. Wrote CBS president Laurence Tisch, who said he has known Milken for almost 20 years: "I have rarely dealt with a more dedicated and faithful professional or one more sensitive to the needs and goals of his clients or more mindful of the needs of society at large...
...Missouri School of Journalism, he began his career as an editor and designer at a weekly newspaper in his native St. Louis. He eventually focused on design because, as he puts it, "What I enjoyed most was putting the pieces together." He was graphics editor for the now defunct St. Louis Globe-Democrat before coming to TIME in 1985. Among the cover-subject designs he is proudest of are the sun ("Great Ball of Fire") in July 1989 and White House chief of staff John Sununu ("Bush's Bad Cop") in May 1990. If you haven't already figured...
...sunny Sunday morning in July, near the height of the Venetian tourist season, the public gardens are empty. Where is the audience for the new? The national pavilions, that whimsical collage of defunct official styles, are as deserted as the dream piazza in a De Chirico, populated only by young guardiani doing their nails in the humid silence. It reminds you of the old nursery rhyme...
...tenure has bridged TIME's transition to full color as well as the computer revolution in publishing. A native of Cleveland, he began his career at a newspaper syndicate, hand lettering the dialogue balloons in Alley Oop and other cartoon strips. He served as art director of the now defunct More magazine, a journalism review, before coming here in 1977 as deputy to Walter Bernard, his predecessor as art director. Together, Bernard and Hoglund created the design that remains the basis for TIME's look today. That design began to evolve almost immediately as editors and art directors discovered...
Since the coming of glasnost, the international spy novel is defunct. So goes the current wisdom, and it is as false as the leads in Soviet Sources (Atlantic Monthly Press; 264 pages; $19.95). Novelist Robert Cullen, a former Moscow correspondent for Newsweek, jolts the genre into new life with a plausible plot and authentic detail. Stationed in the U.S.S.R., journalist Colin Burke discovers that the nation's leading reformer has suffered a stroke. Hard-liners plan a takeover, and part of the plan is framing the American on trumped-up charges before he can spill his scoop. Meantime, a Soviet...