Word: editor
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...midst, but for a long time now they have been complemented by trained newsmen. One of the first of that breed to join the magazine was Eben Roy Alexander, who came to TIME in 1939 as a veteran reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As managing editor from 1949 to 1960, he in a sense led TIME into its age of fully professional journalism. When "Alex" died last week, at 79, both old associates and younger staff members who know him only as a legend paid tribute to an extraordinary journalist and an extraordinary...
Given his background, it was natural that when named managing editor of TIME by Co-Founder Henry Luce, he regarded his job much like a military command. He was a great commander: tough, decisive, but always fair and humane. The managing editor of TIME is responsible for everything that appears in the magazine, for how the magazine shapes its picture of the world each week, and Alex relished that responsibility. His editing pencil raced across the copy, deleting, adding, transposing, scribbling questions in the margin. When the phone interrupted him, he would always answer it himself, avoiding the wasted word...
...most colossal scale known to any of us, is a good guy," said Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan when Alex retired in 1966. Roy Alexander took all rites of passage as inevitable in life and shunned sentimentality. But on that occasion he allowed himself to say that his colleagues at TIME had meant a great deal to him, and he added: "I think I realize now that I have meant something...
...John Vorster's name has been mentioned in the scandal; Luyt told Mostert that he agreed to start the Citizen only because he was led to believe that Vorster had personally selected him for the job At one stage in the press inquiry into the scandal, a crusading editor received a message that allegedly came from the former Prime Minister himself. "Tell him to lay off," the word was passed, "or he'll have to deal with...
Former South African newspaper editor Donald Woods yesterday told an audience of 40 freshmen that if Harvard is so immoral as to invest in South Africa it may as well try to "get a better financial return out of brothels and drugs...