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...veteran journalists know, the image was grounded in some truth. Recalls Assistant Managing Editor John Elson, who supervised this week's cover stories: "When I started out, in what was then a male-dominated profession, part of the macho image was the ability to hold your liquor. Many of the rituals centered on alcohol: the weekly two-hour lunch with colleagues, the long hours of closing nights in an editor's office...
This issue's Men of the Year stories were supervised by Assistant Managing Editor John Elson and Senior Editor Henry Muller. The main narrative was the work of Senior Writer George Church, who drew extensively on the reporting of Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof, Eastern Europe Bureau Chief John Moody and White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett. Their efforts bring into distinctive focus for TIME'S readers the most compelling story of 1983: the superpowers' confrontation, and the actions of the leaders who must cope with...
Both the men and the women harriers will now begin final preparations for Saturday's most against Ivy League rival Dartmouth. Many consider the Big Green the season's most important meet, but, as women's coach D. Elson Cochran-Fikes says. "This is not necessarily the highlight of the entire season." But if both teams are victorious Saturday, it could mean the top seeding in the Heptagonals at the end of the season...
Ostling is not the only member of the cover team with impressive credentials. Assistant Managing Editor John Elson, who guided the cover project, was TIME'S Religion editor throughout the Vatican II period, writing numerous cover stories on the papacy and Protestant trends. Washington Reporter Jim Castelli was once religion editor of the Washington Star. Reporter-Researcher Michael Harris attended a Roman Catholic seminary for five years, and taught ancient and medieval philosophy, Latin and Greek at another seminary for three. New York Correspondent Bruce van Voorst has interviewed theologians from Rudolf Bultmann to Hans Küng, while...
...this week's complex picture of a troubled political system in the heat of a budget crisis, TIME focused on Congress and Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. To flesh out the picture, our Washington Bureau filed thousands of words to New York, where National Editor John Elson oversaw the project. Senior Writer Ed Magnuson handled the main story on Congress, and Associate Editor Walter Isaacson the portrait of Baker. Senior Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil, who has been covering the House and Senate for 33 years, and Correspondent Evan Thomas, who began his assignment on the Hill just last October...