Word: editoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, who wrote the Essay on auto insurance, also received an adequate supply of free advice from colleagues who happen to be policyholders. He heard all the old tales of hardhearted claim adjusters, sky-high premiums, canceled insurance. Shnayerson sympathized, but when he recounted how he had solved his own automobile problems, he had the distinct feeling, he says, that no one was ready to follow his lead...
...party went into the publishing business, says G.O.P. State Chairman Robert Monks, after becoming "sick of depending upon a few wealthy individuals." To offset this traditional dependence, the party commissioned LIFE Senior Editor Gene Farmer to write a marketable history and description of Massachusetts that would even look good on Democratic coffee tables. Farmer did just that. Winging metaphorically from Boston ("a state of mind") to Harvard-M.I.T. ("a modern Macedonian phalanx"), he produced an attractive, knowledgeable study of the state without sounding like a chamber-ofcommerce come...
...three families that have owned the paper since 1867-the Noyeses, the Kauffmanns, the Adamses-put their heads together and decided to do something about it. In 1963, Newbold Noyes was named editor, with a mandate to spend money on a topnotch staff. As a result, today's Star is again a newspaper worth reading, without sacrificing its urbane, low-keyed style. It manages to keep up with fast-breaking news and avoid the big, overblown headlines and shoddy sensationalism too often endemic to the afternoon. The Star is still the No. 2 paper in Washington, but in almost...
...Though some are lured away by higher salaries elsewhere, many stay. They know they will be backed up in whatever they say. Despite the fact that the Star's top management thought all the criticism of the CIA last year was damaging to the national interest, Assistant Managing Editor Charles Seib continued to run Reporter Robert Walters' exposes of covert CIA activities-probably the most extensive documentation to appear in any U.S. paper...
...some local Negroes by opposing Washington home rule. Its grounds, of course, are not racial but the fear that with home rule Congress would not appropriate sufficient funds for its share of the city's government. The Star generally backs the President on Viet Nam but, as Foreign Editor Crosby Noyes puts it, "we're not for automatic and unending escalation...