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...widely satirized as a country clod who smoked a pipe. Mary Todd Lincoln, a sad and slightly unhinged woman, went on shopping sprees that left her $27,000 in debt by 1864. Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt suffered posthumous humiliations at the hands of their own children. Seven years ago, Elliott Roosevelt wrote a book discussing his father's love affair and his parents' conjugal sex life (none after 1918, reported Elliott...
...automakers reacted cautiously to the White House package. Detroit numbers men, no doubt using their Japanese-made calculators, found some election-year hyperbole in the $1 billion price tag. Said General Motors President Elliott M. Estes: "We can't quite add all that up yet." Most Detroit officials were disappointed that the President had failed to promise an immediate reduction in Japanese imports, as demanded by the U.A.W., Ford and Chrysler. Groused Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca: "It seems almost insane to have 300,000 people on the street here, with the Japanese working Saturdays and Sundays...
...capital, notes TIME Correspondent Simmons Fentress, it is regarded as one of the top three, along with the Times and the Los Angeles Times. Specialists, such as James M. Perry and Albert R. Hunt (politics), Dennis Farney (Congress), Richard J. Levine (economics), Kenneth H. Bacon (defense) and Karen Elliott House (foreign affairs), are pre-eminent in their fields...
...Osborn Elliott became editor of Newsweek in 1961 and set about transforming what was then a pallid copy of TIME into a feisty, prosperous competitor. "Oz" Elliott, now 55 and dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, tells how he did it and how much fun he had along the way. He rose above his humble beginnings (St. Paul's, Harvard, old money and a family friend, Builder-Bureaucrat Robert Moses, who got him a first job on the New York Journal of Commerce) to become business editor at Newsweek in 1955. He and Colleague...
...conceding that Newsweek was slow to produce Watergate breakthroughs and that the wizard himself was growing stale and restless in his last years on the job. Apparently he had not completely recovered when he wrote his book. He does narrate many amusing anecdotes. In one, a Nixon aide phones Elliott at home soon after the Watergate break-in on an issue of considerable urgency: changing Julie's magazine subscription. In this work, at least, Elliott chooses not to say much about the nature of his craft, his era or his inner workings. Mostly he reports what happened...