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...ROBERT T. ELSON...
Three years before his death in 1967, Henry R. Luce, co-founder of Time Inc., commissioned a history of the company. He opened his private files and corporate files and instructed Historian Robert T. Elson "to be candid, truthful and to suppress nothing relevant." Elson, a veteran correspondent and editor for TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE, followed orders. In 1968 he produced the lively and candid Time Inc., The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise 1923-1941. Elson's second volume, The World of Time Inc., carries the story through the company's more expansive years from Pearl Harbor...
...shut down most of the country's newspapers and television stations and jailed many of his political opponents. He also moved to halt widespread bureaucratic corruption and initiate long-promised but hopelessly delayed economic reforms, and he talked of creating a "new society" in the Philippines. TIME'S Robert Elson recently visited Manila to assess some of Marcos' changes and the Filipinos' reactions to them. His report...
...calmly. Most Manilenos applauded Marcos' law-and-order moves, even though his ban on the sale of guns seemed rather belated in a country whose inhabitants have more weapons than the entire Philippine military and police forces. During a tour of Manila last week, TIME Correspondent Robert Elson saw few soldiers and found life "normal except for the companies of ROTC students scrubbing anti-Marcos graffiti off the walls of buildings and traffic dividers. Otherwise, the city went untroubled about its business. Open-air shops were thronged, and early-morning Masses were crowded...
...March, Atheneum will publish The World of Time-Life: The Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise, 1941-1960. It is the second volume of the story of this company written by Robert T. Elson, and it is our hope that it will be regarded as an indispensable account of a major force in American journalism...