Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Socialist and Communist parties gain power in next March's parliamentary elections - which is entirely possible. The work of a so far anonymous author, Days is an instant hit: its first printing of 50,000 copies sold out in a day. The novel says the book editor of the French newsmagazine L 'Express, is "a marvelous projection of the present that always remains on the edge of reality...
...used to call Clay Felker our drinking editor, not because he had a more agile elbow than any of the rest of us, but simply because he . . . managed to get to more parties in a week than anybody else in a month...
Thus did Esquire Founding Editor Arnold Gingrich (1903-76) once describe a certain garrulous subeditor who worked on the magazine during the highest of its haute-smartass days nearly two decades ago. Young Felker left Esquire in 1962, but became even more conspicuous in publishing and partying circles by founding New York in 1968, losing it this year in a bitter fight with Australian Sleaze-paper Publisher Rupert Murdoch (TIME, Jan. 17), and then scouring the globe for some new publishing adventure. Last week he found an old one: Esquire...
...former New York designer Milton Glaser and Publisher Vere Harmsworth's Associated Newspapers Group Ltd. (London's Daily Mail, Evening News and 42 smaller British papers) -will buy the 44-year-old monthly from its highly diversified parent, Esquire Inc. Glaser will become design director, Felker editor in chief as well as the chief executive of the magazine company; Harmsworth will be chairman...
Thus Madsen could be found not long ago up to her waist in a chilly Pocono Mountains lake, putting a nine-month-old puppy through a series of tests to develop his lifesaving instincts and skills. "He's an enthusiastic kid," Madsen told TIME Sports Editor B.J. Phillips. "He loves the water. I don't think he's been dry four days in the last three months." As one judge shivered in a windbreaker and another strode the shore line in brogans, the pup, Aesirsson, bounded out of the water and sprayed everyone within five feet with...