Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voters are not the only ones having trouble making up their minds. Many newspapers took longer than usual to issue endorsements. A survey by Editor & Publisher magazine shows that 26% of America's daily newspapers (168 out of 661 responding) endorsed neither candidate; in 1972 that figure...
Ralph Nader was there, and so was the executive vice president of American Motors. The founder of Rolling Stone and the managing editor of the Washington Post took part, as did two of the most conservative newspaper columnists in the U.S. Gloria Steinem and the Knicks' Bill Bradley were there, and so were a former Heisman Trophy winner, a Nobel Laureate, a Navajo tribal leader, nine college presidents, 15 mayors and Governors, 14 Congressmen and Senators, and scores of businessmen, teachers, lawyers and economists. The occasion: a two-day conference held in Washington by TIME on the subject...
There is a tendency to think of leadership only in terms of powerful public positions. Yet, as Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan said: "All through our society, in civic groups, clubs, churches, neighborhood associations, unions," there are many who may not be leaders in their jobs but who during "the rest of their time [exercise] a certain kind of leadership respected by neighbors, friends or other members of the community. You get a more intelligent, responsible followership if the followers themselves have experience with leadership...
GLORIA STEINEM, editor, Ms. magazine: Mine was a middle-class family in Toledo fallen on hard times, but we had books in the house. Like many women who don't conform, I didn't have brothers, so it is possible some of the dreams of the family were inadvertently invested in me. Show business was a pass ticket out of our neighborhood, so we all dreamed of being Teresa Brewer, who had made it. I did go to college. Then my father sent me an ad from a Las Vegas club for chorus girls...
...print journalists knew their subjects better than electronic journalists; the best-balanced team of questioners were the three who queried the vice-presidential candidates; the best single questioner was Max Frankel, who exhibited the sharpness he will bring to the New York Times editorial page when he becomes its editor in January. His question to Ford produced the famous gaffe on Eastern Europe, which Frankel, unbelieving, gave Ford a chance to correct. An equally pertinent Frankel question to Carter went unanswered as Carter unabashedly took off on his own prepared denunciation of Administration foreign policy. In this, Carter...