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...best-selling book Passages. Spirit of Survival is practically all Sheehy, and that is an even bigger problem. Her effort to popularize a psychology of survival is hopelessly muddled by her need to dramatize herself. Sheehy, a middle-aged single mother and the companion of Magazine Editor Clay Felker, jets off to Thailand to write a story about Cambodian child refugees. There she meets Phat Mohm, 12, an orphaned survivor of Pol Pot's death marches and work camps. Arrangements are made to bring Mohm to the U.S., where she lives with Sheehy, learns to be an American and attends...
...which was popularized in magazines and books in the 1960s and '70s and has been increasingly criticized. New Journalists may merge characters or invent scenes. They sometimes reconstruct sequences based on interviews with third parties rather than participants, and even claim to know what people were thinking. Clay Felker, when he was running New York magazine, edited out Gail Sheehy's explanation in an article that a prostitute, Red-pants, was a composite because, he says, "I thought it slowed the story down." He regrets having misled readers. Reviewers challenged the reconstructed dialogue in David McClintick...
...Joshua Felker '85, the Boston ticket sales manager, said that the theft affected only a small percentage of tickets. "Close to 80 percent of the tickets have been sent off," Felker said...
...including Norman Mailer, William Whittle and Kurt Vonnegut back subjects, Polio Vaccine Pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk, Boxer Muhammad Ali, Pollster George Gallup and Feminist Betty Friedan. Perhaps the central figures, however, were Phillip Moffitt, 37, and Christopher Whittle, 36, the Tennesseans who bought out investors including then Editor Clay Felker for a reported $3.5 million in 1979, when Esquire was losing $25,000 a day. Chairman Whittle's gala announcement: "After 13 years, we have come back into the black." Established magazines, once they falter, are rarely able to turn around, and Esquire falls between two categories of periodicals...
...News did not change with the times. It could never appeal to both its traditional audience in the boroughs and to more "sophisticated" Manhattanites and suburbanites. It tried last year with an afternoon edition called "Tonight"--edited by the father of New York Magazine, Clay Felker--and the result was an expensive bomb. The failure of "Tonight" epitomized the News's trouble. Felker's part of the paper focused on the arts, singles' bars, and the concerns of modern, "hip" New Yorkers, while the rest of the paper scarcely changed at all. Side by side were features on subjects like...