Word: editor
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...coincidence, Associate Editor B.J. Phillips, who wrote the cover, is a woman. She is also our regular sportswriter and a diehard baseball fan who spent a Southern small-town childhood hoping to make the major leagues. She did enjoy a brief career on the sandlot, but when at 14 she came home bleeding from a spike wound, her mother took a hard stand. Says Phillips: "That's when I became a proper young lady...
Chrysler ordered a canvass of its zone managers, service managers and dealers around the country. The results, says Jeffe: "Absolutely zilch. Not a single complaint from a customer about the handling of the car." Motor Trend Executive Editor Chuck Nerpel said that in tests run by his magazine, Omni-Horizon stood out as "an agile car." Consumers' Research, a rival of Consumers Union, tested the Omni-Horizon under normal road conditions, rather than on a special track; it passed...
Part of the answer came last week when the Star's two top jobs were filled by seasoned executives from Time Inc. Named as editor was Murray J. Gart, 53, who since 1969 has headed the TIME-LIFE News Service with the rank of assistant managing editor of TIME. The paper's new publisher is George W. Hoyt, 42, former president of a thriving Time Inc. weekly newspaper chain, the Chicago-area Pioneer Press...
...appointments capped a series of personnel shifts and editorial changes that began shortly after Time Inc. acquired the newspaper. Star Veteran Sidney Epstein, 57, was promoted from managing editor to executive editor. Philip Evans, 44, and Barbara Cohen, 33, became joint managing editors, in charge of production and news, respectively. Edwin Yoder Jr., 43, a Rhodes scholar, was confirmed as editor of the paper's editorial page. The TIME-LIFE News Service has been providing the Star with stories from its own worldwide network of correspondents, as well as features adapted from Time Inc.'s other magazines: SPORTS...
...Star had been without an editor since last November, when able James G. Bellows, 55, went to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. Bellows had begun an energetic program of editorial rebuilding, but was convinced that Allbritton's austerity moves, which had brought the paper back to near the break-even point, were blocking his efforts. Indeed, the work of both men had greatly strengthened the Star, but, says a Star staffer, "we've been rudderless since Bellows left...