Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to review that Halberstam book," my editor insisted, "you really can't." I began a dutiful protest, but knew he had a point. "Look, you're a nice Catholic kid who spent his whole life in some nice Catholic schools, going to Mass and rooting for Notre Dame. You probably think a bar mitzvah is some kind of Jewish saloon. Why do you want to review a novel about the first Jewish Presidential candidate?" Good question. "Because I liked it," I answered...
...novel should be: funny, touching, slapstick across the surface but with a strong subtle current running along the seabed, a roaring good story with a moral that doesn't have to hit you across the head. Halberstam, who won the 1953 Dana Reed Prize in his days as managing editor of The Crimson, has certainly proven that his days in medical school and as a Washington cardiologist haven't dulled his abilities at a typewriter. The question that must be floating around the minds of his classmates in why they had to wait a quarter of a century...
...after concluding all this I went back to my editor prepared to defend my choice of a book to review. So what if I didn't get some of the jokes or pick up some of the fine ethnic nuances or understand the particularly Jewish outlook of the minor characters. So what, I planned to say, it doesn't matter because, you see, Levine is no mere ethnic, he talks about so many common experiences like pride and happiness, anyone can understand. The old Levy's Rye ad came to mind. You really don't have to be Jewish...
...Daily Metro (circ. 400,000) is the inspiration of Frederick Iseman. 25, a pre-strike assistant editor at the Times. The Metro is being aided by the Post in various ways, principally with distribution. The Times has provided distribution help on a smaller scale to the City News. Rupert Murdoch, publisher of the struck Post, reportedly signed an agreement to buy the Metro if Publisher Iseman ever wants to sell it. Iseman insisted he has no such plans, but some of the city's numerous Murdoch-haters speculated that the Australian's hidden motive is to fold the ailing Post...
DIED. John Fischer, 68, gentlemanly editor of Harper's magazine from 1953 to 1967; of complications following surgery; in New Haven, Conn. Fischer imbued Harper's with graceful, intelligent prose and humor. He became known for encouraging writers and for the cool reason of his column, "The Easy Chair...