Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ronald P. Kriss, a senior editor of Time magazine, says, "This quiet generation business is a canard--we were not as quiet as were sometimes made out to be, just more discreet about our likes and dislikes...
...passengers on last week's fatal flight was Author Judith Wax, 47, who was flying with her husband Sheldon Wax, 51, managing editor of Playboy magazine. In her last book, Starting in the Middle, she wrote lightly and amusingly about incidents in her life. In retrospect, one of her lines acquired new meaning. "When the job required travel," she wrote, "I developed such a fear of airplanes my head trembled from takeoff to landing...
...class area of Quebec City, Louise Beaudoin, a regional president of the Parti Quebecois, was trounced by an obscure Liberal lawyer, Jean-Claude Rivest. At the same time, Claude Ryan, the new leader of the provincial Liberal Party, won a 2-to-l victory in rural Argenteuil. A former editor of Montreal's influential daily Le Devoir, Ryan, 54, is not only a fresh political face but a debater whose verbal agility is a match for Levesque's. Last week Ryan called on Clark to support a constitutional change that would guarantee French language rights throughout the country...
...last week is one that Joe Clark has coveted since his boyhood days in High River, Alta., when, recalled a cousin, "he really did say that he wanted to be Prime Minister. We used to kid him a lot about it." The shy, ungainly son of a local newspaper editor and his schoolteacher wife, Clark was an average student who did well in English and public speaking. He became a member of the campus Tory club while earning a B. A. in history at the University of Alberta, and studied law for a year before realizing how much more...
...ideal, of course, is a news staff totally motivated by their editor's enthusiasm and energy--the Spark-Plug syndrome rather than the Times' Carrot-and-Stick or the Post's Survival-of-the-Fittest. Don Forst is quick with his stick--he fired the Herald's Sunday magazine editor not long ago when the guy chose to spend a weekend with his family rather than fly down to the magazine's printers in Kentucky with a last-minute editorial change. But Forst's approach to Hartnett suggests a Champion Spark Plug in the making. According to Dave O'Brian...