Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Thomas B. Hess, 57, former editor of Art News magazine, who last February became chairman of 20th century art at the Metropolitan Museum; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As art critic for New York magazine in the 1970s, Hess kept alive his romance with abstract expressionism...
...graceful socialite and one of the world's best-dressed women; of cancer; in Manhattan. "Babe" Paley was introduced early to high society as one of three beautiful daughters of Boston Neurosurgeon Harvey Gushing. She first hit the best-dressed lists "on nothing a year" as a fashion editor for Vogue magazine, choosing simple but striking clothes that marked her quiet sense of personal style. In 1947 she married William S. Paley, chairman of the board of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and came to embody a standard of elegance by which social functions and fashion trends were judged...
...related newsletter runs material mainly from three anonymous writers in Rome and three in the U.S. Both the book and the newsletter are sponsored by 18 Catholics who make up a Committee for the Responsible Election of the Pope, chaired by Andrews and Philip Scharper, top editor at the Maryknoll Fathers' Orbis Books...
...Editors often have their enthusiasms-the literate George F. Will is one among newer columnists-as well as particular grievances. The vigor of a columnist's views doesn't trouble them, since with an avoidance of judgment that they call being open-minded, editors now seek for their pages a "broad spectrum" of attitudes. But they are wary of prejudicial opinions in the guise of reporting and most often cite Evans and Novak. The Los Angeles Times (whose own Washington bureau is highly regarded by the Washington press corps) dropped Evans and Novak because, in Editor...
...that the very Washington columnists who have enthusiastically chronicled the diminution of public trust in Congress and the presidency are themselves suffering from the current animus toward Washington-knows-best. More charitably, editors don't think that any Washington columnist, no matter how energetic and wise, can be knowledgeable and reflective on important matters three times a week. So for their Op-Ed pages, editors now look around for speeches or articles by specialists to cover many subjects. "The Washington column is over the hill a little bit," the Chicago Tribune's editor Clayton Kirkpatrick believes. "The world...