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...former, a special Olympics supplement accompanies TIME this week. The product of weeks of reporting and research, the supplement is a preview of whom to watch and what to expect when the Games get under way in Munich. It was assembled under the direction of Senior Editor John T. Elson. The introduction and analysis of the Games were written by Associate Editor Edwin Bolwell. Bolwell, who will be in Munich later this month covering the Games firsthand, was first introduced to the Olympics spectacle 16 years ago. The Games were then in Melbourne, Australia, and Bolwell was a reporter...
EVEN before he went into seclusion, Howard Hughes posed unusual challenges for newsmen. In 1944, for instance, he consented, through an intermediary, to a telephone interview with Robert Elson, then in our Washington bureau. Hughes insisted that when he called, Elson was to identify himself by saying: "Hello, Mr. Howard Hughes. How was the weather?" Trouble was, Elson forgot the code question. This necessitated a new round of calls before Hughes was convinced that Elson was not an impostor. In 1948, when we did a cover story on Hughes, he did utter one prophetic statement about his future...
...school board sometimes can't raise enough revenue, covering education has always been a journalistic challenge. In recent years, the field has broadened still further because of the integration movement to include elements of law, politics and sociology. "All the comfortable assumptions have exploded," says Senior Editor John Elson, who directs our Education section. "The theories and rules are all up for reconsideration, making the beat livelier than ever...
...Your essayist, John T. Elson, surely chose a fine group of "martyrs." Why did he exclude "Dutch" Schultz? Schultz probably did less damage to society than Che Guevara. Elson's notion appears to be that anyone killed doing his thing is a martyr. The liberal-dominated press seldom speaks out now against the suppression of human liberties in countries like Hungary, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, but continues to blame the white race for being so long silent and inactive concerning the plight of its Negro brothers in the Old South and the new ghettos. Inconsistency, thou art a liberal...
...Still, the masterful symmetry of the plot, the nuanced yet aphoristic clarity of the dialogue and the unobtrusive evocation of what D.H. Lawrence called "the spirit of place," explain in part why Rohmer has lately become something of a film fan's cult figure. John T. Elson...