Word: editor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stand an hour of literate, intelligent conversation, then I urge you to go see your minister, your priest, your rabbi, or your psychiatrist: you are deathly sick." The speaker was Alexander King, sometime adman, artist, editor and dope addict, who has turned the kind of anecdote-flavored coffeehouse talk that has long been familiar in his home town (Vienna) into a highly successful TV act. His garrulous appearances on the Jack Paar show helped boost his current bestseller, Mine Enemy Grows Older, a book of amusing, scurrilous reminiscences. His often witty, sometimes vulgar, hour-long weekly talk show on Manhattan...
Publisher Newhouse will use the same principle with Condé Nast that underlies his newspaper empire: a high degree of local autonomy. Mitzie Newhouse may have an occasional casual chat with an editor, and Mr. S.I. will keep his sharp eye on the ledger, but Condé Nast will continue to be run on the same fashion-plating formula by Publisher Patcévitch and his staffers...
...Adler, the column in the Sun-Times is "a part of the general education function I am trying to perform in my lectures, Great Book series, and seminars. Admittedly, the column may be for a minority, but it's a substantial minority." Sun-Times Executive Editor Lawrence S. Fanning, who calls Adler "a kind of poor man's Plato," is as enthusiastic as Adler. Says he: "If we can move a few people away from the comic strips and into this kind of material, it seems to me that the paper is performing one of its essential functions...
McLaughlin, a journalist as well as a novelist (he is an associate editor of TIME), has an unerring eye for the Manhattan landscape, a faithful ear for the speech of the superficially smart. Although he never preaches, and the explicit statement of his theme never rises above the pitch of party talk, the reader is not allowed to forget the book's title; it would be a different story if any of the characters really had a notion...