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...named on Monday to succeed her as editor of the venerable magazine. Remnick, 39, who has written more than 100 articles for the magazine, will take over when Brown leaves Aug. 1 (to start a new multimedia venture with Miramax). Remnick said his top priority will be "to edit a magazine of hilarity, deep reporting, literary quality and moral seriousness." He wouldn't discuss any specific changes he may have in mind for the magazine, or his contract...
...with Skip and their wowed visitors and occasional 10 second quips on the air between breaks. Artie demonstrates the VoxPro computer system which records all of the phone calls which he receives. The screen displays the sound frequency wavelength of the call so that Artie can go back to edit the conversation later. When heactually plays calls on the air, he is playing theedited version rather than the live version. Atapproximately 9 p.m., Artie congratulates the 12thcaller in a contest to win some arcane collectionof gifts. He points at Skip and his visitors, whocheer on cue for the winner...
...News, Feb. 27). The article was about people who are really, really busy. The first woman interviewed, for example, takes six classes, audits another six, spends 40 hours a week just attending lectures and sections, works for a professor and is learning to play the guitar. Others edit student publications, teach sections for computer science courses, play in orchestras and jet-set around the world--all at the same time. And lest you hope that they have at least sacrificed fun and friendship for all that achievement, each student's description ends with a firm quote to the contrary...
TIME had invented something called group journalism. Reams of copy from correspondents all over the world flowed in to what was called TIME Edit, the New York operation that actually produced what appeared in the magazine. (Under group journalism, the voice was the authoritative tone of TIME; there were no bylines.) TIME Edit had a large staff that was in constant contact all week through meetings and story conferences and fact-checking sessions. People had some time on their hands at the beginning of the week and were thrown together in a late-night crisis atmosphere...
Even if I'd known how to write serious fiction, a comic novel would have been the natural form for me to use in recalling that era. Looking back, it seemed so entertaining--all those people in that two-floor hothouse. In the haze of my memory, TIME Edit sometimes floats by as an extended country weekend, enlivened by the fact that some of the guests don't get along absolutely perfectly. It's brought to mind when I hear literary-conference phrases like "the solitary life of a writer" or "the lonely craft of writing." At TIME Edit, loneliness...