Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That menacing wasp on the cover and the other pesky bugs pictured and written about in this week's cover story have bewitched, bothered or bitten Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited the story, for quite some time. "My most bitter bug experience was in 1956," recalls Jaroff. "On assignment in Labrador for LIFE magazine I had to go through dense bush to get to Grand Falls. It was the height of the blackfly season, and I returned with 500 bites on my body. For 20 years, I've waited to get even...
...reports from these correspondents, along with those of David Wood in Boston and Mary Cronin in New York, went to Associate Editor Peter Stoler, who wrote the cover story, assisted by Reporter-Researcher Fortunata Sydnor Vanderschmidt. For Stoler, the story was the latest round in a long fight. Says he: "I got malaria from mosquitoes as an infantryman in Korea, and I have had termites as a homeowner in Tenafly...
...Foot, a former Solicitor General in the Labor government. Raymond was acquitted of the murder, but received three years in prison for impeding the arrest of a criminal. In 1972 he skipped from Dartmoor prison while on a home leave and was later arrested in Australia, posing as an editor of the London Times. After finishing his sentence, he disappeared from sight...
...Harry and Walter decide the next best thing would be to break into a bank vault. Having met a notorious gentleman thief (Michael Caine) during a prison stretch, they filch the plans for his next job and try to beat him to it. Their unlikely accomplices: a radical newspaper editor (Diane Keaton) and her band of ragged reformers, who want to use the loot to set up a milk fund for New York City's poor...
...more than were at Munich in 1972. Women sportswriters, used to be relegated to covering women's basketball, field hockey and sport fashions, but now work such brawny beats as football and boxing. Indeed, the demand for women writers may be outstripping the supply. Says Blackie Sherrod, sports editor of the Dallas Times-Herald: "I wish I had one. Everybody's looking for one. What I'd give for a good...