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...repeatedly aimed his rhetorical artillery at the Bremen teachers' union, accusing some instructors of selfishness and educational subversion. While an already tense confrontation over school policy heated up, the paper's editorship passed from a Republican to a Democrat, who happened to have two relatives in the teachers' union. Small town politics set in. One week a disclaimer began appearing over Elliott's byline: "The opinions expressed in this column are not those of the editor." Gradually, the space allotted for "Verities and Balderdash" shrank, until finally, the editor cut it to 10 column inches. "That same week there...
...recent treatment of Willie Morris, who as editor of Harper's magazine in the 1960s demolition, invited in the New Journalists. To make a target worthy of demolition, first praise him. Reporter James Conaway speaks of Morris' "extraordinary autobiography, North Toward Home," and of his editorship that "many people think was Harper's finest time." But that was years ago; Conaway now finds Morris living in Oxford, Miss., the home town of William Faulkner. At 48, Morris is "drinking bourbon by the fire" in the house of Faulkner's niece. He has, Conaway observes, "grown broad...
...decade later the magazine, still under Cousins' editorship, was sold to the founders of Psychology Today, who split it into four monthlies dealing with education, science, the arts and "the society." Cousins disagreed with that strategy and walked out. By 1973 the fragmented SR was in bankruptcy and Cousins strode back in. He restored the old formula but not the old form. In 1977 a new investor group took over, and in 1978 Cousins reduced his role to that of columnist...
...invading German troops in 1939, Rakowski emerged from the war a fervent Communist and, for a while, a committed Stalinist. Rakowski's taste for reform developed in 1956, when Wladyslaw Gomulka became head of the Polish Communist Party, promising greater freedom and economic progress. Under Rakowski's editorship, Polityka refused to join a campaign against the Catholic Church in 1966. In 1968 Rakowski, who was by then a deputy member of the Central Committee, not only refused to support an anti-Semitic purge but protected the Jews who worked...
...staff was unsettled by reports that Shawn wanted to turn over some authority to a young man more admired by Shawn than by others around the premises. Shawn ended the uncertainty by posting a two-line notice on the board saying he intended to stay on a while. The editorship is his "as long as he feels he can do the job," says George J. Green, The New Yorker's president. (Management so defers to Shawn that he doesn't even have an editorial budget, but spends what he wants.) How long does Shawn intend to stay...