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While they didn't necessarily know at the time just what they were going to do with the story, the writers, researchers and editors directly responsible for the cover story got a good deal of personal feeling for it. Michael Demarest, THE NATION editor, was on his way home on the train to Croton-on-Hudson when power failed and the train ground to a halt about a mile north of Yonkers. He walked the mile, managed to get a cab home, and watched his children toasting marshmallows in the fireplace and 13-year-old Michelle, after the manner...
Senior Editor Michael Demarest looked up from the edited pages and, with a somewhat far-away look in his eye, recalled how as a boy he had helped feed the hogs on his father's farm in England, how he had milked cows during his wartime vacations from school ("I've never been able to stand milk since") and how, when he was a reporter on the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, he had helped out in his spare time in the vineyards and chicken houses on his mother's 50-acre ranch in the Napa Valley region...
...Soviet People's Commissars, who had just issued one of those typical, promissory reports filled with soaring but questionable statistics. This week's cover article on Leonid Brezhnev, President of the Soviet Union, is TIME'S 70th on a Russian subject. It was written by Michael Demarest, edited by Edward Hughes, and reported from many quarters, but principally by our Moscow bureau chief, Israel Shenker. Despite great changes in Russia, the story has remained essentially the same: present economic crisis surrounded by hopeful incantations about the future...
...writing we witness the human tendency toward self-destruction. "We specialize in smash-ups," says Andren Cather, the drunken hero of Great Circle. "If there's anything we dearly love, it's a nice little smash-up." This aspect of life is sharply portrayed in Blue Voyage. The hero, Demarest, speaks of a love he will never recapture: "There's no concealing the suffering it has brought, that frightful and inescapable and unwearying consciousness of the unattainable...
...from Liberal to Labor and rose to party leadership. Her detailed knowledge of the general British political situation, gained in 20 years of reporting, gave extraordinary depth to her report for the cover story. Using her report, as well as files from the whole London staff, Associate Editor Michael Demarest, who got his education in England (Rugby, Oxford) and spent more than three years as a correspondent in the London Bureau, wrote a definitive study of the British political situation and the man who may be the next Prime Minister...