Word: editoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHILE the world waited anxiously for some promise of peace in Viet Nam, Associate Editor Ronald Kriss, who wrote this week's cover story, felt that he was entitled to some extra measure of impatience. The special publishing deadlines of a pre-election issue meant that all stories had to be written and edited at an accelerated pace; the probability of a bombing halt only compounded the need for speed. But Kriss, along with Senior Editor Michael Demarest and Researcher Mary Kelley, were as prepared as possible for the unpredictable. For months, they have been studying every nuance...
...writer is Robert T. Elson, for 25 years a correspondent and editor for TIME, FORTUNE and LIFE, who has had access to all company archives and to the memories of almost all of the people involved. What emerges is in part a portrait of Luce's working life, with a few reflections of his private life. More than that, what emerges is the art, craft and business of a particular kind of journalism. Elson opens his account at a point when TIME was a brash, almost absurdly ambitious experiment. He closes it when the magazine, now the eldest...
Within "group journalism" (a phrase he sometimes used but did not approve of), Luce gave his staff an extraordinary degree of independence. "As an editor," writes Elson, "he did not like to lay down guidelines and rules; he understood that creative writers and editors worked better if given wide latitude. He was often disappointed in their work, but he accepted the risk as part of the price of aggressive journalism...
Chairman, Dunster House Forum; Producer and "president," Dunster Drama Society; editor-publisher, Dunster Drama Review; advisory board and seminar leader, Institute of Politics...
...Club, Treasurer; House Fencing; Circulation editor, Hillel Newsletter; Hasty Pudding, Equipment Manager; Adams House 18th Century Society...