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...early retirees are by no means all rich. Edith Flowers Kilgo, 52, of Jonesboro, Ga., is a former free-lance writer and a university-press editor at Georgia State University who retired in 1994 to share her special expertise: saving money. Kilgo is publisher of the bimonthly newsletter Creative Downscaling, in which she passes on ideas gleaned from her own life-style, including the best way to purchase used cars, plus tips on buying clothes (wait for end-of-season sales) and making your own snacks. "I grew up in poverty as the daughter of sharecroppers," says Kilgo, whose husband...
Being right--accurate--has been important to Wolfe since his earliest days as a New Journalist, when he wrote feature stories so vividly, employing such a wide array of techniques borrowed from fiction that some readers didn't believe they could be true. Jann Wenner, founder, editor and publisher of Rolling Stone, opened his magazine's pages to early versions of The Right Stuff, Bonfire and A Man in Full, and is a Wolfe friend and fan. "Many years ago, he used to get knocked for making stuff up," Wenner says. "But in my experience with him, which...
DIED. RUTH BRINE, 78, ebullient former senior editor of TIME; in New York City. Brine, an Iowa native who grew up skating on the Mississippi, opted in 1945 to begin her career at TIME rather than Newsweek because of its proximity to Rockefeller Center's skating rink. During her four-decade career, she interviewed such icons as Pablo Picasso and Maria Callas and conceived cover stories on women, crime and the elderly...
Other newly-elected members of the 1998-99 board are Managing Editor Alex G. Kuo '01, Executive Editor Soman S. Chainani '01, Design Editor Jennifer L. Liu '01, Features Editors Susan H. Gim '00 and Adam J. Reiss '99, Perspectives Editors Ryan M. Calder '99 and Steven J. Kruczek '01, World-in-Review Editors Jessica L. Leino '00 and Evan G. Liaras '00, Global Notebook Editors Ileana M. Ciobanu '00 and Jim J. Meeks '01 and Marketing Director Konstantinos Papakonstantinou...
DIED. MAYNARD PARKER, 58, editor of Newsweek; of pneumonia that he contracted after treatment for leukemia; in New York City. A distinguished foreign correspondent and hard-driving journalist, he spent 31 years at Newsweek, the last seven as its top editor (see Eulogy, below...