Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last winter, Senior Editor Timothy Foote found himself playing mixed doubles with a new partner. "She was a really strong and steady player," he recalls, "but well along in the match, she began going to pieces." Foote was puzzled by her collapsing performance until she whispered to him, looking at their male opponent on the other side of the net, "He frightens...
...Chief Laurence Barrett and Correspondent James Willwerth, both racquet zealots, competed in this year's press tournament at Forest Hills-though neither made the finals. Correspondent Arthur White runs and wins the annual fall tournament of TIME'S Washington bureau -with stiff competition from players like Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, who manages to get in winter practice during lulls while accompanying Henry Kissinger on trips to sunny climates. Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and International Editor Jesse Birnbaum, who celebrated their 25th anniversaries with TIME in July, both requested memberships in a tennis club instead of the traditional watch...
...compleat anti-Nader catalogue has been assembled by David Sanford, former managing editor of the liberal New Republic who once collaborated with Nader on a book (Hot War on the Consumer). In a slim 135-page critique, Me & Ralph, Sanford seems obsessively concerned about his personal problems in editing the prickly Nader's syndicated newspaper column and about Nader's deteriorating relations with the New Republic. Sanford and Nader fell out over these not uncommon editor-author frictions in 1973. Sanford thereupon completed an anti-Nader article for Esquire, but was dissuaded from publishing it by then...
Died. William D. Geer, 70, who came to Time Inc. from Yale in 1929, and in the course of his long and varied career was editor of The March of Time, general manager of FORTUNE, and from 1943 to 1949, its publisher; of a stroke; in Gilsum...
Newspaper editors had to wonder too. The New York Times, which gallantly runs page after page of important foreign policy documents, feels no such compulsion at conventions; even the keynote speech is reduced to excerpts. The Times, says Deputy Managing Editor Seymour Topping, aims to set before its readers-expert and nonexpert-a "high quality smorgasbord"; that way, presumably, the reader on the run can find enough nourishment without having to sample every dish. Jim Hoge, the Chicago Sun-Times editor, drastically cut back his paper's coverage and space on the second day of the Democratic Convention, convinced...