Word: felkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to call Clay Felker our drinking editor, not because he had a more agile elbow than any of the rest of us, but simply because he . . . managed to get to more parties in a week than anybody else in a month...
Thus did Esquire Founding Editor Arnold Gingrich (1903-76) once describe a certain garrulous subeditor who worked on the magazine during the highest of its haute-smartass days nearly two decades ago. Young Felker left Esquire in 1962, but became even more conspicuous in publishing and partying circles by founding New York in 1968, losing it this year in a bitter fight with Australian Sleaze-paper Publisher Rupert Murdoch (TIME, Jan. 17), and then scouring the globe for some new publishing adventure. Last week he found an old one: Esquire...
...Instead, Felker started up New West. His formula was simple enough: the service chic that had worked so brilliantly in New York should also succeed in California. The magazine dove into muckraking political coverage although Baker believes that Californians are less intrigued by politics than are New Yorkers...
...West's extravagant start-up costs were partly responsible for Felker's fall and the New York Magazine Co.'s takeover by Australian Publisher Rupert Murdoch (TIME cover, Jan. 17). The magazine was turned over to a dizzying succession of new editors and writers struggling on their own. Murdoch has not ordered any major changes for New West, possibly because he is absorbed with his more important acquisition, the New York Post. As a result, Managing Editor Frank Lalli, a holdover from the Felker regime, has been given greater autonomy...
However, though lively and often imaginative, New West seems to be haunted by a Felkerian phantom: its editors on occasion run the kind of features they feel would have been whipped up by Felker. The results can be disastrous. A notable example was a cover story in July based on the premise that since Governor Jerry Brown was 39 and unmarried (though a frequent companion of Linda Ronstadt's), he would be a likely target for antihomosexual smears in next year's gubernatorial race. Even Felker was moved to protest from the sidelines. Said...