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...judge and executioner." Jarrell replied in print that "it is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad." In private he was a shade more merciful. He wrote but then urged an editor not to print a review of an Archibald MacLeish book: "It would depress and vex the poor guy and do no good...
...crisis, members of TIME's Nation section figured they could finally relax last Friday afternoon and began looking forward to a summer weekend. The cover story planned for this issue had been scrapped in midweek when the Coca-Cola Co. announced the return of the old Coke, and the editors had ordered a crash cover on the business and social implications of the surprise move. This time, the Nation staffers thought, the crunch was on the Economy & Business section, which had mobilized quickly, worked round the clock and, as evening fell, was in the final throes of closing its Coke...
...Even though it seemed unlikely that there was cause for great alarm," says Senior Editor Walter Isaacson, "anytime the President has to undergo serious surgery, it's major news." The decision to switch covers was quickly made, and the week's third and final choice was the presidential surgery. While the Business staff reluctantly cut back the nearly completed Coke story to five pages, a host of reporter-researchers, writers and editors, as well as members of the art and picture departments, canceled weekend plans and got down to work. Around the country, correspondents switched their attention from old Coke...
...capital, Correspondent Alessandra Stanley helped to cover the White House and later the Bethesda Naval Hospital. White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett, drawing on his five years of Ronald and Nancy Reagan-watching, was aided by Correspondent Barrett Seaman in collaring Administration aides. For News Editor Blackman, who first alerted us to the story, the events of last week brought a sense of déjà vu. As a Washington-based Associated Press correspondent in 1981, she filed the first news bulletin that Ronald Reagan had been shot...
Geoffrey Ward, former editor of American Heritage, is the latest of many to explore those thickets. He does so by returning to F.D.R.'s origins. The Roosevelts, it turns out, were a strange and sometimes bizarre family, and their history illuminates many of F.D.R.'s foibles. The future President's father James was widower of 52 when he suddenly proposed marriage to the equally lofty Sara Delano, age 26. The reason the Delanos were so privileged was that Sara's father was one of those 19th century entrepreneurs who had made a fortune smuggling Turkish opium into China...