Word: editor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...editor with Synthesis...
...bring to life this week's cover story on American farming, ten photographers crisscrossed the nation for upwards of a month. Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin and his assistants then sifted through the harvest of hundreds of rolls of film, eventually culling 80 or so photos for consideration. Finally, after a number of lengthy viewings, TIME'S editors selected the color and black-and-white pictures that accompany the text. Drapkin, who became our picture editor last July, has been chasing down the right pictures for TIME for 28 years. Says he: "I look for the added dimension...
...quest for the right picture becomes especially challenging when no one is certain that the desired photo even exists. A case in point: locating a shot of John Paul II enjoying the sport of skiing before he was elected Pope. Reports Assistant Picture Editor Alice Rose George, who led the scramble: "Our researcher in the London bureau was told by a photographer that he knew someone who had taken a skiing holiday in Poland and had some 8-mm movie film of Cardinal Wojtyla in ski clothing. We tracked down the film and ended up with an exclusive shot...
Thomas Ruskin '80, a CUE Guide editor, tried to persuade CUE members to endorse the publication of medians by using an analogy to birth control...
...arresting officer, requiring him to go to the hospital to get a tetanus shot, and that she then gave the police an alias so they wouldn't know she was a state representative. "She was infuriated after we did the 'Howe Bites Cop' story," says Journal co-editor Barbara Powers. "She said we've always been against her, and she came down [to the newspaper office] and started screaming and yelling and threatening to take us to court." No such suit ever came to trial...